arxivcs.SDcs.AI2026-06-30
ZEBRA: Zero-Shot Entropy-Regularized Prompt Learning for Base-to-Novel Generalization in Audio-Language Models
Audio-Language Models (ALMs) achieve strong zero-shot performance by aligning audio with textual class descriptions. Although prompt learning improves accuracy on base classes through few-shot supervised adaptation, we observe a critical trade-off: it often degrades performance o…