SAM: A Mamba-2 State-Space Audio-Language Model

Taehan Lee, Jaehan Jung, Hyukjun Lee

We present SAM, a State-space Audio-language Model that integrates an audio encoder with a Mamba-2 backbone. SAM-2.7B achieves 21.1 mAP on AudioSet and 17.6 SPICE on AudioCaps, mat…