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arxiv: 2605.28480 · v1 · pith:GF63VMLTnew · submitted 2026-05-27 · 📡 eess.AS · cs.SD

Audio-Mind: An Auditable Agentic Framework for Audio Understanding

Yucheng Wang , Jing Peng , Hanqi Li , Chenghao Wang , Wenming Tu , Yu Xi , Zhaokai Sun , Kai Yu
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keywords audio understandingagentic frameworkslarge audio-language modelsconditional tool useauditable reasoningMMAR benchmarkevidence gaps
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Audio understanding improves when agentic tool calls are used only if a strong frontend leaves evidence gaps.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper establishes that large audio-language models have become strong enough that unconditional decomposition into tool calls and reasoning steps can hurt performance rather than help. Audio-Mind therefore adds a planner that checks whether the frontend has already produced sufficient evidence and triggers bounded external tool use only when gaps remain. This conditional approach yields higher accuracy on two audio benchmarks while also generating traceable records of uncertainty and evidence. The design matters because it treats the frontend's holistic judgment as the default rather than overwriting it with orchestration steps.

Core claim

Audio-Mind dynamically combines a strong frontend with planner-guided tool use, preserving frontend judgment when initial evidence is sufficient while acquiring bounded external evidence for questions with unresolved evidence gaps. Experiments on MMAR and MSU-Bench show that Audio-Mind outperforms prior audio-agent baselines, reaching 80.4% accuracy on MMAR and 82.8% accuracy on MSU-Bench. A matched-backbone comparison highlights why this design matters: under strong audio frontends, agentic decomposition can become an orchestration bottleneck when the workflow does not preserve the frontend's holistic audio-grounded judgment. Beyond accuracy, Audio-Mind produces higher-quality, auditable re

What carries the argument

The planner-guided conditional evidence acquisition that decides whether to preserve frontend output or invoke bounded external tools.

If this is right

  • Accuracy on MMAR reaches 80.4 percent and on MSU-Bench reaches 82.8 percent, exceeding prior audio-agent baselines.
  • Reasoning traces become auditable by exposing uncertainty, tool evidence, and answer rationales.
  • Agentic decomposition becomes an orchestration bottleneck precisely when the workflow overrides a strong frontend's holistic judgment.
  • The framework remains pluggable so that any strong audio frontend can be paired with the conditional planner.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same conditional logic could be tested in vision or multimodal settings where frontends are already reliable on many inputs.
  • Reducing unnecessary tool calls may lower latency and cost in deployed audio systems without sacrificing answer quality.
  • The auditable traces could support systematic error analysis for improving future audio datasets or model training.
  • If planners improve at gap detection, the fraction of questions routed to tools may shrink further over time.

Load-bearing premise

The planner can reliably detect when initial frontend evidence is insufficient and that acquiring bounded external evidence will close those gaps without introducing new errors.

What would settle it

An experiment in which the planner frequently judges evidence as sufficient when it is not, or in which the added tool calls lower accuracy below the frontend-alone baseline on the same questions.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.28480 by Chenghao Wang, Hanqi Li, Jing Peng, Kai Yu, Shuai Wang, Wenming Tu, Yucheng Wang, Yu Xi, Zhaokai Sun.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Architecture of AUDIO-MIND. The system first uses a planner-generated perception prompt to obtain question-oriented frontend evidence, then iteratively gathers additional evidence through tool calls or targeted frontend follow-up. Once the planner determines that the evidence is sufficient, the frontend model generates the final answer from the original audio and accumulated context, followed by format val… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Qualitative correction trace for a hot-versus-cold water example. The left panel shows the Qwen3.5-Omni [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_2.png] view at source ↗
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Audio agents extend large audio-language models (LALMs) by decomposing audio questions into tool calls, intermediate evidence, and iterative reasoning steps. However, as LALMs become stronger, the key challenge shifts from enabling tool use to determining when agentic evidence acquisition genuinely benefits audio understanding. We propose Audio-Mind, an auditable and pluggable framework for conditional evidence acquisition in audio understanding. Audio-Mind dynamically combines a strong frontend with planner-guided tool use, preserving frontend judgment when initial evidence is sufficient while acquiring bounded external evidence for questions with unresolved evidence gaps. Experiments on MMAR and MSU-Bench show that Audio-Mind outperforms prior audio-agent baselines, reaching 80.4% accuracy on MMAR and 82.8% accuracy on MSU-Bench. A matched-backbone comparison highlights why this design matters: under strong audio frontends, agentic decomposition can become an orchestration bottleneck when the workflow does not preserve the frontend's holistic audio-grounded judgment. Beyond accuracy, Audio-Mind produces higher-quality, auditable reasoning traces that expose uncertainty, tool evidence, and answer rationales, offering a potential basis for more reliable audio-QA annotation and error analysis.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes Audio-Mind, an auditable and pluggable agentic framework for audio understanding that dynamically combines a strong LALM frontend with planner-guided tool use. It preserves the frontend's holistic judgment when initial evidence suffices and acquires bounded external evidence only for unresolved gaps. The central claims are that this conditional design outperforms prior audio-agent baselines (80.4% accuracy on MMAR, 82.8% on MSU-Bench) and that agentic decomposition becomes an orchestration bottleneck under strong frontends; the framework also yields higher-quality auditable reasoning traces.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold with proper validation, the work addresses a timely transition in audio agents: as LALMs strengthen, the problem shifts from enabling tool use to deciding when it genuinely helps. The emphasis on auditable traces and conditional acquisition could support more reliable error analysis and annotation pipelines in audio QA.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract / Experiments] Abstract and experimental sections: the headline accuracies (80.4% MMAR, 82.8% MSU-Bench) and the matched-backbone comparison are presented without any description of the experimental protocol, dataset splits, statistical tests, number of runs, or ablation studies. This absence makes it impossible to assess whether the reported gains support the central claim of conditional evidence acquisition.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: the planner's core decision rule for detecting when 'initial evidence is insufficient' and for ensuring that bounded tool evidence closes gaps without introducing new errors is invoked as the key mechanism but is given no implementation details, pseudocode, or evaluation (e.g., precision of insufficiency calls against oracle labels). This assumption is load-bearing for both the performance numbers and the bottleneck claim.
  3. [Abstract] Abstract: the statement that 'agentic decomposition can become an orchestration bottleneck when the workflow does not preserve the frontend's holistic audio-grounded judgment' rests on the matched-backbone comparison, yet no quantitative results, backbone details, or workflow variants from that comparison are supplied.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract uses the term 'LALM' without an initial expansion; a parenthetical definition on first use would improve readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. The comments correctly identify areas where additional transparency is needed to support the central claims. We address each point below and commit to revisions that strengthen the manuscript without altering its core contributions.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract / Experiments] Abstract and experimental sections: the headline accuracies (80.4% MMAR, 82.8% MSU-Bench) and the matched-backbone comparison are presented without any description of the experimental protocol, dataset splits, statistical tests, number of runs, or ablation studies. This absence makes it impossible to assess whether the reported gains support the central claim of conditional evidence acquisition.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract omits these details. The full manuscript's Experiments section (Section 4) specifies the MMAR and MSU-Bench splits, reports means and standard deviations over three independent runs, and presents ablation studies on the conditional mechanism. To address the concern directly, we will expand the abstract with a concise statement of the protocol and run count, and ensure the experimental section explicitly notes any statistical tests applied. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the planner's core decision rule for detecting when 'initial evidence is insufficient' and for ensuring that bounded tool evidence closes gaps without introducing new errors is invoked as the key mechanism but is given no implementation details, pseudocode, or evaluation (e.g., precision of insufficiency calls against oracle labels). This assumption is load-bearing for both the performance numbers and the bottleneck claim.

    Authors: Section 3.2 and Algorithm 1 of the manuscript provide the decision rule implementation and pseudocode. However, we did not report an explicit precision evaluation of the insufficiency detector against oracle labels. This is a substantive gap; we will add such an analysis in the revision, including precision/recall figures derived from our internal annotations of planner decisions. revision: partial

  3. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the statement that 'agentic decomposition can become an orchestration bottleneck when the workflow does not preserve the frontend's holistic audio-grounded judgment' rests on the matched-backbone comparison, yet no quantitative results, backbone details, or workflow variants from that comparison are supplied.

    Authors: The matched-backbone results, including specific backbone configurations and workflow variants, appear in Section 4.3 and Table 3. We will revise the abstract to include a brief quantitative summary of these findings so the bottleneck claim is directly supported at the abstract level. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical framework with benchmark results, no derivations or self-referential claims

full rationale

The paper proposes Audio-Mind as an auditable agentic framework that conditionally combines a strong frontend with planner-guided tool use, reporting empirical accuracies (80.4% on MMAR, 82.8% on MSU-Bench) without any equations, fitted parameters, predictions, or first-principles derivations. No self-definitional steps, fitted-input predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear; the central claims rest on external benchmark comparisons rather than reducing to internal definitions or ansatzes. The planner's decision rule is presented as a design choice with an acknowledged assumption, but this does not constitute circularity in any derivation chain.

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