Adaptive Discovery of Interpretable Audio Attributes with Multimodal LLMs for Low-Resource Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06991v1
• Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:27:21 GMT
• Title: Adaptive Discovery of Interpretable Audio Attributes with Multimodal LLMs for Low-Resource Classification
• Abstract summary: We propose a method for adaptively discovering interpretable audio attributes using Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)<n>By replacing humans in the AdaFlock framework with MLLMs, our method achieves significantly faster attribute discovery.<n> Experimental results across various audio tasks demonstrate that our method outperforms direct MLLM prediction in the majority of evaluated cases.
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• Abstract: In predictive modeling for low-resource audio classification, extracting high-accuracy and interpretable attributes is critical. Particularly in high-reliability applications, interpretable audio attributes are indispensable. While human-driven attribute discovery is effective, its low throughput becomes a bottleneck. We propose a method for adaptively discovering interpretable audio attributes using Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). By replacing humans in the AdaFlock framework with MLLMs, our method achieves significantly faster attribute discovery. Our method dynamically identifies salient acoustic characteristics via prompting and constructs an attribute-based ensemble classifier. Experimental results across various audio tasks demonstrate that our method outperforms direct MLLM prediction in the majority of evaluated cases. The entire training completes within 11 minutes, proving it a practical, adaptive solution that surpasses conventional human-reliant approaches.

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