arxiveess.AScs.AIeess.SP2026-07-04
Probing Low-Level Acoustic Attribute Encoding in CLAP Audio Embeddings
Héctor Martel, Joe Hennessy-Priest, Taemin Cho
Audio foundation models are widely adopted as general-purpose feature extractors, yet the internal structure of their learned representations remains insufficiently understood. In this work, we analyze CLAP audio embeddings through a probing framework, studying the encoding of th…