Escape the Language Prior: Mitigating Late-Stage Modality Collapse in Audio Reasoning via Modality-Aware Policy Optimization

arXiv:2605.27741 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-05-26 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-05-26

Updated: 2026-10-10

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