arxivcs.SDcs.AIeess.AS2026-06-30
Beyond Binary Instrument QA: Probing Instrument Grounding in Music Audio-Language Models
Yujun Lee, Joonhyeok Shin, Hyoeun Kim, Kyuhong Shim
Recent music audio-language models achieve high accuracy on instrument question-answering benchmarks, but it remains unclear whether this reflects robust audio grounding or benchmark-specific shortcuts. In this paper, we introduce an OpenMIC-derived diagnostic benchmark sequence…