Audio-Reasoner: Improving Reasoning Capability in Large Audio Language Models

Zhifei Xie, Mingbao Lin, Zihang Liu, Pengcheng Wu, Shuicheng Yan +1 more
3/4/2025
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Recent advancements in multimodal reasoning have largely overlooked the audio modality. We introduce Audio-Reasoner, a large-scale audio language model for deep reasoning in audio tasks. We meticulously curated a large-scale and diverse multi-task audio dataset with simple annotations. Then, we leverage closed-source models to conduct secondary labeling, QA generation, along with structured COT process. These datasets together form a high-quality reasoning dataset with 1.2 million reasoning-rich samples, which we name CoTA. Following inference scaling principles, we train Audio-Reasoner on CoTA, enabling it to achieve great logical capabilities in audio reasoning. Experiments show state-of-the-art performance across key benchmarks, including MMAU-mini (+25.42%), AIR-Bench chat/foundation(+14.57%/+10.13%), and MELD (+8.01%). Our findings stress the core of structured CoT training in advancing audio reasoning.

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@article{xie2025audioreasoner,
  title  = {Audio-Reasoner: Improving Reasoning Capability in Large Audio Language Models},
  author = {Zhifei Xie and Mingbao Lin and Zihang Liu and Pengcheng Wu and Shuicheng Yan and Chunyan Miao},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2503.02318},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02318v2}
}

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