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BASS: Benchmarking Audio LMs for Musical Structure and Semantic Reasoning

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Main Authors:	Jang, Min, Ahia, Orevaoghene, Tamer, Nazif, Kumar, Sachin, Tsvetkov, Yulia, Smith, Noah A.
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Sound Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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