# Audio-language model reasoning Area: [LLM reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/lr/index.md). HTML: https://mlsanity.com/lr/audio-language-model-reasoning/ ## Key facts - Audio-language model reasoning: 303 papers on arXiv since 2022 (data through 14 Oct 2026). - 81 of its 303 mapped papers (27%) cite “Qwen2.5-Omni Technical Report” (2025, arXiv 2503.20215). - 62 of its 303 mapped papers (20%) cite “MMAU: A Massive Multi-Task Audio Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark” (2024, arXiv 2410.19168). - 27 new papers 17 Sep–14 Oct. ## Most cited here - [Qwen2.5-Omni Technical Report](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.20215/) (2025), cited by 81 papers here - [MMAU: A Massive Multi-Task Audio Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.19168/) (2024), cited by 62 papers here - [Audio Flamingo 3: Advancing Audio Intelligence with Fully Open Large Audio Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.08128/) (2025), cited by 46 papers here - [Audio-Reasoner: Improving Reasoning Capability in Large Audio Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.02318/) (2025), cited by 43 papers here - [MMAR: A Challenging Benchmark for Deep Reasoning in Speech, Audio, Music, and Their Mix](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.13032/) (2025), cited by 36 papers here - [GAMA: A Large Audio-Language Model with Advanced Audio Understanding and Complex Reasoning Abilities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.11768/) (2024), cited by 32 papers here - [Audio Flamingo 2: An Audio-Language Model with Long-Audio Understanding and Expert Reasoning Abilities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.03983/) (2025), cited by 29 papers here - [Reinforcement Learning Outperforms Supervised Fine-Tuning: A Case Study on Audio Question Answering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.11197/) (2025), cited by 28 papers here - [Audio-CoT: Exploring Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Audio Language Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.07246/) (2025), cited by 27 papers here - [Emotion-LLaMA: Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Reasoning with Instruction Tuning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.11161/) (2024), cited by 25 papers here ## New (17 Sep–14 Oct) - [Designing Textual Interfaces To Enhance Llm Reasoning On Audio-Visual Question Answering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.20085/) (2026-10-14) - [What Does LALM Post-training Learn? Rethinking Audio Understanding and Reasoning Capabilities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.19476/) (2026-10-14) - [SonicWorld: Source-Centric Latent Dynamics for Spatial Audio Reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.17131/) (2026-10-12) - [SWEAR: Section-Wise Efficient Audio Reasoning via Self-Rated Difficulty](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.13081/) (2026-10-09) - [From Surface to Depth: Towards Cognitive Appraisal Reasoning in Multimodal Emotion Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.11918/) (2026-10-08) - [Selective Listening: Mechanism-Guided Control of Audio Influence in Large Audio-Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.11196/) (2026-10-08) - [Mind the Accent Gap: British Accent Robustness in Speech-Driven Financial Voice Assistants](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.06587/) (2026-10-05) - [AdaLoop: Adaptive-Depth Latent Reasoning for Audio Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.06949/) (2026-10-03) - [OmniSeek: Native Tool Integration for Multi-turn Audio-Visual Reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.02181/) (2026-10-01) - [AURAL: Adaptive Latent Reasoning with Joint Chunk for Speech Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.01560/) (2026-10-01) - [Align Then Reason: A Multimodal Lip-Sync Judge for Dubbing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.00825/) (2026-09-30) - [LongEmo: Towards Emotion Understanding and Reasoning in Long Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.40079/) (2026-09-30) - [Learning to Reason with Compressed Context: Ground-Truth-Free Adaptation of OmniLLMs via Self-Distillation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.39953/) (2026-09-30) - [SEAR: Spoofing Evidence-Grounded Audio Reasoning Benchmark for Audio Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.39847/) (2026-09-30) - [OP-CAD: On-Policy Clean-Audio Distillation for Robust Audio-Visual Reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.39150/) (2026-09-30) - [OmniRoute: Mapping Temporal Semantic Evidence to Audio-Visual Token Budgets for Efficient Omnimodal Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.37052/) (2026-09-29) - [Decoding Affective Nuances: Enhancing MLLMs via Hierarchical Emotion Reasoning and Contrastive Discriminative Pruning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.36782/) (2026-09-29) - [Emo-Jev: Probabilistic Reasoning for Emotion Classification with Jev](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.08829/) (2026-09-27) - [DuraS2ST: Chain-of-Thought and Reinforcement Learning for Duration-Aligned Speech-to-Speech Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.33742/) (2026-09-27) - [OmniSmartHome: A Multimodal Reasoning Benchmark for Smart-Home Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.32569/) (2026-09-26) - [Who Says What: Symbolic Trimodal Binding Mechanisms in Audio-Visual LLMs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.31193/) (2026-09-25) - [Rethinking Length-Based Training: Batch Composition and Loss Normalization in Speech Token Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.25890/) (2026-09-22) - [Listen Then Reason: Perception-Grounded Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for Large Audio-Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.23589/) (2026-09-20) - [COT-TTS: Audio Context-Aware Text-to-Speech with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.22697/) (2026-09-19) - [SEABED: SouthEast Asian Benchmark for Evaluating Audio Reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.22586/) (2026-09-18) - [Rethinking Human-Aligned Evaluation: An Analysis of Semantic Metrics Beyond WER](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.21663/) (2026-09-18) - [AVTrace: Diagnosing Audio-Visual Temporal Reasoning in Omni Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.19991/) (2026-09-17)