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New AudioDER Dataset Boosts LALM Reasoning Capabilities

Researchers have introduced AudioDER, a new dataset designed to enhance the reasoning capabilities of Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs). The dataset addresses the issue of redundancy in existing audio-language datasets by employing a deduplication process to improve diversity. AudioDER contains approximately 191,000 samples, each including an audio clip, a multiple-choice question, answer candidates, an audio caption, and a chain-of-thought rationale generated by Qwen3-30B. Experiments demonstrate that post-training LALMs like Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct on AudioDER leads to consistent performance improvements on various audio reasoning benchmarks. AI

IMPACT This dataset could accelerate progress in audio reasoning for LALMs, leading to more sophisticated audio understanding applications.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Hui Geng, Yi Su, Han Yin, Tianjiao Wan, Qisheng Xu, Jiaxin Chen, Zijian Gao, Hengzhu Liu, Xie Chen, Kele Xu ·

    AudioDER: A Deduplication-Enhanced Reasoning Dataset for Post-Training Large Audio-Language Models

    arXiv:2606.14591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have shown strong performance on a wide range of audio understanding tasks, yet they still struggle with complex audio reasoning. A practical way to improve such capabilities is post-training, w…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Kele Xu ·

    AudioDER: A Deduplication-Enhanced Reasoning Dataset for Post-Training Large Audio-Language Models

    Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have shown strong performance on a wide range of audio understanding tasks, yet they still struggle with complex audio reasoning. A practical way to improve such capabilities is post-training, whose effectiveness critically depends on the quali…