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Can Large Audio Language Models Ignore Multilingual Distractors? An Evaluation of Their Selective Auditory Attention Capabilities

Heejoon Koo

Large audio language models lose selective attention to English targets when multilingual distractors appear at low signal-to-noise ratios.

arxiv:2605.17225 v1 · 2026-05-17 · eess.AS

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strong single performance does not ensure robust selective auditory attention: cocktail party accuracy degrades under severe SNRs, and errors are dominated by distractor-grounded source confusion. In addition, separation reduces acoustic overlap but leaves source attribution unresolved, often yielding confident wrong-stream answers.

C2weakest assumption

The MUSA benchmark pairs English targets with semantically plausible distractors under controlled SNRs in single, two-stage, and end-to-end settings, assuming this construction accurately measures selective auditory attention without major confounding factors from the specific dialogue content or model training data.

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Introduces the MUSA benchmark and evaluates LALMs showing that strong single-speaker performance fails to ensure robust selective attention under multilingual interference, with errors from source confusion and unresolved attribution after separation.

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[1] Situational awareness , pages= 2017

[2] Journal of the acoustical society of America , volume=

[3] Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) , pages=

[4] arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.04962 , year=

[5] Audiotrust: Benchmarking the multifaceted trustworthiness of audio large language models

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arxiv: 2605.17225 · arxiv_version: 2605.17225v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17225 · pith_short_12: TYNRTIPQHLSC · pith_short_16: TYNRTIPQHLSCW7MV · pith_short_8: TYNRTIPQ

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