Augmenting Large Audio-Language Models with Frame-Level Grounding for Fine-Grained Temporal Perception

arXiv:2609.15215 · cs.SD, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-14 · Read on arXiv

cs.SD, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-14

Updated: 2026-09-14

Comments: Submitted to ICASSP 2027

Project page: https://saber5203.github.io/frame-level-grounding

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Grounding — 63× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Temporal Reasoning — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Transformer — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation Studies — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Contrastive Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Decode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Few-Shot Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• MOSS-Audio Technical Report
• Qwen3-Omni Technical Report

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