When Entanglement Lower-Bounds Disparity: Auditing and Repairing Demographic Fairness in Audio Understanding Models

arXiv:2609.27382 · cs.SD, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

cs.SD, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Terminology

• Fidelity — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Entanglement — 7× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Verification — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accountability — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Linear probe — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Affective Computing — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Representation Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Access Regimes — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Domain Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Few-Shot Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop — 1× in this paper
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Latent Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Linear Probing — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multimodal Dataset — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Orthogonal Residual Contrastive Adapter — 1× in this paper
• Self-Supervised Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Seamless Interaction: Dyadic Audiovisual Motion Modeling and Large-Scale Dataset
• Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
• Voxtral
• Qwen2-Audio Technical Report
• Moshi: a speech-text foundation model for real-time dialogue

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