Hearing the Order: Investigating Position Bias in Large Audio-Language Models

arXiv:2510.00628 · cs.SD, cs.CL · Submitted 2025-10-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.SD, cs.CL

Submitted: 2025-10-01

Updated: 2026-08-31

Code: https://github.com/openai/simple-evals

Terminology

• Accuracy — 24× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 19× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Self-consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• In-Context Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Multi-hop Reasoning — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Selection Bias — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Choice Kullback-Leibler Divergence — 1× in this paper
• Computational overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Few-Shot Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Relative Standard Deviation — 1× in this paper
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
• Phi-4-Mini Technical Report: Compact yet Powerful Multimodal Language Models via Mixture-of-LoRAs
• Qwen2.5-Omni Technical Report
• Voxtral
• DeSTA2.5-Audio: Toward General-Purpose Large Audio Language Model with Self-Generated Cross-Modal Alignment
• MMAU-Pro: A Challenging and Comprehensive Benchmark for Holistic Evaluation of Audio General Intelligence
• Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge
• SpeechR: A Benchmark for Speech Reasoning in Large Audio-Language Models
• Replacing Judges with Juries: Evaluating LLM Generations with a Panel of Diverse Models
• EmergentTTS-Eval: Evaluating TTS Models on Complex Prosodic, Expressiveness, and Linguistic Challenges Using Model-as-a-Judge

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