Yi-Wen Chao

Beyond Textual Chain-of-Thought: JEPA-Conditioned Latent Reasoning for Large Audio Language Models

Explicit textual Chain-of-Thought (CoT) has improved the reasoning ability of large audio language models (LALMs). However, textual CoTs are often constructed from text captions of audio and provide limited access to the acoustic evidence, which can introduce problems like hallucination. To address this modality-gap is...