3 papers
cs.SD2026
AVMeme Exam: A Multimodal Multilingual Multicultural Benchmark for LLMs' Contextual and Cultural Knowledge and Thinking
Xilin Jiang, Qiaolin Wang, Junkai Wu +30
Internet audio-visual clips convey meaning through time-varying sound and motion, which extend beyond what text alone can represent. To examine whether AI models can understand suc…
cs.SD2025
SightSound-R1: Cross-Modal Reasoning Distillation from Vision to Audio Language Models
Qiaolin Wang, Xilin Jiang, Linyang He +2
While large audio-language models (LALMs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art audio understanding, their reasoning capability in complex soundscapes still falls behind large vision-…
cs.CL2025
Layer-wise Minimal Pair Probing Reveals Contextual Grammatical-Conceptual Hierarchy in Speech Representations
Linyang He, Qiaolin Wang, Xilin Jiang +1
Transformer-based speech language models (SLMs) have significantly improved neural speech recognition and understanding. While existing research has examined how well SLMs encode s…