Enhancing Temporal Understanding in Audio Question Answering for Large Audio Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06223v2
• Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 02:17:58 GMT
• Title: Enhancing Temporal Understanding in Audio Question Answering for Large Audio Language Models
• Authors: Arvind Krishna Sridhar, Yinyi Guo, Erik Visser,
• Abstract summary: Audio Question Answering has garnered attention due to the advent of Large Audio Language Models. While LALMs excel in general audio understanding, they are limited in temporal reasoning. This paper addresses these challenges and limitations in audio temporal reasoning.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: The Audio Question Answering task includes audio event classification, audio captioning, and open ended reasoning. Recently, Audio Question Answering has garnered attention due to the advent of Large Audio Language Models. Current literature focuses on constructing LALMs by integrating audio encoders with text only Large Language Models through a projection module. While Large Audio Language Models excel in general audio understanding, they are limited in temporal reasoning which may hinder their commercial applications and on device deployment. This paper addresses these challenges and limitations in audio temporal reasoning. First, we introduce a data augmentation technique for generating reliable audio temporal questions and answers using an LLM. Second, we propose a continued finetuning curriculum learning strategy to specialize in temporal reasoning without compromising performance on finetuned tasks. Finally, we develop a reliable and transparent automated metric, assisted by an LLM, to measure the correlation between Large Audio Language Model responses and ground truth data intelligently. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed techniques using SOTA LALMs on public audio benchmark datasets.

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