3 accepted papers
Even without directly hearing sounds, humans can effortlessly reason about auditory properties, such as pitch, loudness, or sound-source associations, drawing on auditory commonsense. In contrast, language models often lack this capability, limiting their effectiveness in multimodal interactions. As…
Recent studies have identified that language models, pretrained on text-only datasets, often lack elementary visual knowledge, e.g., colors of everyday objects. Motivated by this observation, we ask whether a similar shortcoming exists in terms of the auditory knowledge. To answer this question, we…
Language models pretrained on text-only corpora often struggle with tasks that require auditory commonsense knowledge.Previous work addresses this problem by augmenting the language model to retrieve knowledge from external audio databases.This approach has several limitations, such as the potential…