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Open-vocabulary audio language models (ALMs), like Contrastive Language Audio Pretraining (CLAP), represent a promising new paradigm for audio-text retrieval using natural language queries. In this paper, for the first time, we perform…

Contrastive language-audio pretraining~(CLAP) has been developed to align the representations of audio and language, achieving remarkable performance in retrieval and classification tasks. However, current CLAP struggles to capture temporal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yi Yuan , Zhuo Chen , Xubo Liu , Haohe Liu , Xuenan Xu , Dongya Jia , Yuanzhe Chen , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Learning to associate audio with textual descriptions is valuable for a range of tasks, including pretraining, zero-shot classification, audio retrieval, audio captioning, and text-conditioned audio generation. Existing contrastive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Paul Primus , Florian Schmid , Gerhard Widmer

A fundamental characteristic of audio is its compositional nature. Audio-language models (ALMs) trained using a contrastive approach (e.g., CLAP) that learns a shared representation between audio and language modalities have improved…

Deriving multimodal representations of audio and lexical inputs is a central problem in Natural Language Understanding (NLU). In this paper, we present Contrastive Aligned Audio-Language Multirate and Multimodal Representations (CALM), an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Vin Sachidananda , Shao-Yen Tseng , Erik Marchi , Sachin Kajarekar , Panayiotis Georgiou

Modeling temporal characteristics plays a significant role in the representation learning of audio waveform. We propose Contrastive Long-form Language-Audio Pretraining (\textbf{CoLLAP}) to significantly extend the perception window for…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Junda Wu , Warren Li , Zachary Novack , Amit Namburi , Carol Chen , Julian McAuley

We propose Fast Language-Audio Pre-training (FLAP), a self-supervised approach that efficiently and effectively learns aligned audio and language representations through masking, contrastive learning and reconstruction. For efficiency, FLAP…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Ching-Feng Yeh , Po-Yao Huang , Vasu Sharma , Shang-Wen Li , Gargi Gosh

Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (CLAP) is pre-trained to associate audio features with human language, making it a natural zero-shot classifier to recognize unseen sound categories. To adapt CLAP to downstream tasks, prior works…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Yiming Li , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu

Contrastive language-audio pretraining (CLAP) has achieved notable success in learning semantically rich audio representations and is widely adopted for various audio-related tasks. However, current CLAP models face several key limitations.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Xinhao Mei , Gael Le Lan , Haohe Liu , Zhaoheng Ni , Varun Nagaraja , Yang Liu , Yangyang Shi , Vikas Chandra

Audio-Language Models (ALM) aim to be general-purpose audio models by providing zero-shot capabilities at test time. The zero-shot performance of ALM improves by using suitable text prompts for each domain. The text prompts are usually…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Soham Deshmukh , Rita Singh , Bhiksha Raj

One fascinating aspect of pre-trained Audio-Language Models (ALMs) learning is their impressive zero-shot generalization capability and test-time adaptation (TTA) methods aiming to improve domain performance without annotations. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Gongyu Chen , Haomin Zhang , Chaofan Ding , Zihao Chen , Xinhan Di

Audio-Language Models (ALMs), trained on paired audio-text data, are designed to process, understand, and reason about audio-centric multimodal content. Unlike traditional supervised approaches that use predefined labels, ALMs leverage…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yi Su , Jisheng Bai , Qisheng Xu , Kele Xu , Yong Dou

Audio-Language Models (ALMs) have recently achieved remarkable success in zero-shot audio recognition tasks, which match features of audio waveforms with class-specific text prompt features, inspired by advancements in Vision-Language…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Asif Hanif , Maha Tufail Agro , Mohammad Areeb Qazi , Hanan Aldarmaki

Recent advances have been witnessed in audio-language joint learning, such as CLAP, that shows much success in multi-modal understanding tasks. These models usually aggregate uni-modal local representations, namely frame or word features,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Yiming Li , Zhifang Guo , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu

Mainstream Audio Analytics models are trained to learn under the paradigm of one class label to many recordings focusing on one task. Learning under such restricted supervision limits the flexibility of models because they require labeled…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Benjamin Elizalde , Soham Deshmukh , Mahmoud Al Ismail , Huaming Wang

Audio-visual generalised zero-shot learning for video classification requires understanding the relations between the audio and visual information in order to be able to recognise samples from novel, previously unseen classes at test time.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Otniel-Bogdan Mercea , Thomas Hummel , A. Sophia Koepke , Zeynep Akata

Most existing masked audio modeling (MAM) methods learn audio representations by masking and reconstructing local spectrogram patches. However, the reconstruction loss mainly accounts for the signal-level quality of the reconstructed…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yifei Xin , Xiulian Peng , Yan Lu

Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) demonstrate impressive general audio understanding, but once deployed, they are static and fail to improve with new real-world audio data. As traditional supervised fine-tuning is costly, we introduce a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Haoyu Zhang , Jiaxian Guo , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo

Large audio-language models (LALMs) generalize across speech, sound, and music, but unified decoders can exhibit a \emph{temporal smoothing bias}: transient acoustic cues may be underutilized in favor of temporally smooth context that is…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yanda Li , Yuhan Liu , Zirui Song , Yunchao Wei , Martin Takáč , Salem Lahlou

Contrastive language-audio pre-training (CLAP), which learns audio-language representations by aligning audio and text in a common feature space, has become popular for solving audio tasks. However, CLAP's audio features lack…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Masahiro Yasuda , Binh Thien Nguyen , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada
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