2 papers
cs.SD2026
Can We Read the Mind of an Audio LLM? A Verbalizable, Multilingual Middle-Layer Workspace
Jiajun Fan, Jingyuan Li, Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar +8
An audio language model is a black box in a specific way: we see what it says, never what it works out on the way there, and chain-of-thought monitoring helps only if the model wri…
cs.LG2025
Incentivizing Consistent, Effective and Scalable Reasoning Capability in Audio LLMs via Reasoning Process Rewards
Jiajun Fan, Roger Ren, Jingyuan Li +6
The role of reasoning in Audio Large Language Models remains widely underexplored, as introducing a reasoning process often degrades rather than improves performance during inferen…