ReasonAudio: A Benchmark for Evaluating Reasoning Beyond Matching in Text-Audio Retrieval

arXiv:2605.03361 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-05-05 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-05-05

Updated: 2026-09-25

Terminology

• Benchmark — 22× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Embeddings — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Contrastive Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Temporal Reasoning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Simple Voice Questions — 1× in this paper
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Step-Audio: Unified Understanding and Generation in Intelligent Speech Interaction
• Scaling Language-Centric Omnimodal Representation Learning
• Omni-Embed-Nemotron: A Unified Multimodal Retrieval Model for Text, Image, Audio, and Video
• e5-omni: Explicit Cross-modal Alignment for Omni-modal Embeddings
• Qwen2-Audio Technical Report
• Audio Retrieval with WavText5K and CLAP Training
• Qwen3 Embedding: Advancing Text Embedding and Reranking Through Foundation Models

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