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Autores principales: Piao, Yen-Ting, Liao, Jay Chiehen, Chien, Wei-Tang, Ogimoto, Toshiki, Chen, Shang-Tse, Chen, Yun-Nung, Lee, Chun-Yi, Lo, Shao-Yuan
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Publicado: 2026
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20433
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author Piao, Yen-Ting
Liao, Jay Chiehen
Chien, Wei-Tang
Ogimoto, Toshiki
Chen, Shang-Tse
Chen, Yun-Nung
Lee, Chun-Yi
Lo, Shao-Yuan
author_facet Piao, Yen-Ting
Liao, Jay Chiehen
Chien, Wei-Tang
Ogimoto, Toshiki
Chen, Shang-Tse
Chen, Yun-Nung
Lee, Chun-Yi
Lo, Shao-Yuan
contents While Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have been shown to exhibit degraded instruction-following capabilities, their ability to infer task patterns from in-context examples under audio conditioning remains unstudied. To address this gap, we present ALICE, a three-stage framework that progressively reduces textual guidance to systematically evaluate LALMs' in-context learning ability under audio conditioning. Evaluating six LALMs across four audio understanding tasks under two output constraint categories, we uncover a consistent asymmetry across all stages and LALMs: in-context demonstrations reliably improve format compliance but fail to improve, and often degrade, the core task performance. This suggests that LALMs can glean surface-level formatting patterns from demonstrations but may struggle to leverage cross-modal semantic grounding to reliably infer task objectives from audio-conditioned examples, highlighting potential limitations in current cross-modal integration.
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spellingShingle ALICE: A Multifaceted Evaluation Framework of Large Audio-Language Models' In-Context Learning Ability
Piao, Yen-Ting
Liao, Jay Chiehen
Chien, Wei-Tang
Ogimoto, Toshiki
Chen, Shang-Tse
Chen, Yun-Nung
Lee, Chun-Yi
Lo, Shao-Yuan
Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Audio and Speech Processing
While Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have been shown to exhibit degraded instruction-following capabilities, their ability to infer task patterns from in-context examples under audio conditioning remains unstudied. To address this gap, we present ALICE, a three-stage framework that progressively reduces textual guidance to systematically evaluate LALMs' in-context learning ability under audio conditioning. Evaluating six LALMs across four audio understanding tasks under two output constraint categories, we uncover a consistent asymmetry across all stages and LALMs: in-context demonstrations reliably improve format compliance but fail to improve, and often degrade, the core task performance. This suggests that LALMs can glean surface-level formatting patterns from demonstrations but may struggle to leverage cross-modal semantic grounding to reliably infer task objectives from audio-conditioned examples, highlighting potential limitations in current cross-modal integration.
title ALICE: A Multifaceted Evaluation Framework of Large Audio-Language Models' In-Context Learning Ability
topic Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20433