arxivcs.SDcs.AI2026-07-22
Audio-Zero: Label-Free Self-Evolution for Fine-Grained Audio Reasoning
Siqian Tong, Xuan Li, Chaozhuo Li, Baolong Bi, Yiwei Wang, Yujun Cai, et al.
Large Audio Language models (LALMs) have made rapid progress on acoustic understanding, yet they still struggle with fine-grained audio reasoning (e.g., recognizing event order, repetitions and duration). Existing post-training methods heavily rely on expensive external labels or…