arxivcs.SDcs.AI2026-07-13
Encoder-Side Neuron Identification and Amplification for Acoustic Perception in Large Audio-Language Models
Yu-Han Huang, Chih-Kai Yang, Ke-Han Lu, An-Yu Cheng, Hung-yi Lee
Large audio-language models (LALMs) often underperform on fine-grained, non-semantic attributes of speech, such as a speaker's emotion, despite strong performance on speech content. Improving this without the cost of retraining calls for an effective inference-time intervention,…