2 papers
cs.SD2026
UniVerse: Benchmarking and Enhancing LALMs on Culturally Inclusive Low-Resource Music Understanding
Ziya Zhou, Shangda Wu, Shenyang Xu +16
Recent advances in large audio-language models (LALMs) have significantly improved performance in tasks such as music captioning, genre classification, and sound event detection. H…
cs.SD2026
Voices of Civilizations: A Multilingual QA Benchmark for Global Music Understanding
Shangda Wu, Ziya Zhou, Yongyi Zang +4
We introduce Voices of Civilizations, the first multilingual QA benchmark for evaluating audio LLMs' cultural comprehension on full-length music recordings. Covering 380 tracks acr…