SAKE: Towards Editing Auditory Attribute Knowledge of Large Audio-Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16917v1
• Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:22:09 GMT
• Title: SAKE: Towards Editing Auditory Attribute Knowledge of Large Audio-Language Models
• Abstract summary: We introduce SAKE, the first benchmark specifically designed for editing auditory attribute knowledge in Large Audio-Language Models.<n>We benchmark seven editing methods on two LALMs along four dimensions: reliability, generality, audio/text locality, and portability.<n>Results highlight challenges such as preserving intra-attribute knowledge unrelated to the edit, generalizing edits to multimodal reasoning, and maintaining edits under sequential updates.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Knowledge editing offers an efficient way to update model knowledge without full retraining, but prior work has concentrated almost exclusively on textual or visual modalities. We introduce SAKE, the first benchmark specifically designed for editing auditory attribute knowledge in Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs). Unlike factual updates, SAKE targets several abstract auditory attributes, capturing knowledge types that go beyond conventional textual and visual domains. We benchmark seven editing methods on two LALMs along four dimensions: reliability, generality, audio/text locality, and portability. Results highlight challenges such as preserving intra-attribute knowledge unrelated to the edit, generalizing edits to multimodal reasoning, and maintaining edits under sequential updates. SAKE provides a principled framework to study how knowledge editing extends to the auditory modalities, opening new directions for maintaining and adapting LALMs in more diverse real-world scenarios.

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