Awesome Reasoning in Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) 🎤🧠

A curated collection of cutting-edge research and resources for reasoning in Large Audio Language Models. Explore the frontier of multimodal reasoning through speech processing, chain-of-thought techniques, and audio-visual understanding.

🔥 Hot Topics
Multimodal Reasoning • Chain-of-Thought Prompting • Speech Translation • Emotion Recognition • Reinforcement Learning

📚 Table of Contents

• Key Papers
• Research Areas
• Related Projects
• Datasets
• How to Contribute
• License

Papers 📄

Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Title	Conference	Code	Highlights
Audio-CoT: Exploring Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Audio Language Model	Preprint		Pioneering work on CoT in audio models
CoT-ST: Enhancing LLM-based Speech Translation with Multimodal Chain-of-Thought	INTERSPEECH 2024		Multimodal CoT framework
Chain-of-thought prompting for speech translation	EMNLP 2024		Zero-shot speech translation

Multimodal Reasoning

Title	Conference	Code	Highlights
Audio-Reasoner: Improving Reasoning Capability in Large Audio Language Models	ICASSP 2025		Dedicated audio reasoning architecture
Internalizing ASR with Implicit Chain of Thought for Efficient Speech-to-Speech Conversational LLM	ACL 2024		End-to-end speech conversation

Model Optimization

Title	Conference	Code	Highlights
Reinforcement Learning Outperforms Supervised Fine-Tuning: A Case Study on Audio QA	NeurIPS 2024		RL vs SFT comparison
Steering Language Model to Stable Speech Emotion Recognition via Contextual Perception and CoT	ICMI 2024		Emotion recognition stability

▶ Research Areas

• Multimodal Chain-of-Thought
  Exploring reasoning paths through audio-text interactions
• Speech Translation
  Enhancing translation quality with reasoning mechanisms
• Emotion Understanding
  Stable emotion recognition through contextual reasoning
• Efficient Architectures
  Optimizing model structures for real-time applications

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Datasets 📂

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Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our:

• Contribution Guidelines
• Code of Conduct

Ways to contribute:

• Add missing papers (with summary)
• Suggest new categories
• Add dataset/resources section
• Improve documentation

License 📜

This repository is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
Please check individual paper licenses for specific usage.

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Last updated: 2025/3/21