arXiv:2610.34609 · v1

Audio-R1: Audio Reasoning through Reinforcement Learning on Self-Supervised Tasks

首次提交 2026-10-26 06:17

版本更新 2026-10-26 06:17

雷达观测 2026-10-29 00:36

摘要

Reasoning is increasingly important for large audio-language models (LALMs), yet remains relatively underexplored compared with text-only and vision-language models. We introduce Audio-R1, a reinforcement learning (RL) post-training framework that revisits audio self-supervised learning as a source of verifiable rewards for improving audio understanding and reasoning task performance. Audio-R1 uses answers automatically determined during the construction of self-supervised tasks to verify model responses and compute rewards. Experiments across multiple LALMs and diverse audio benchmarks show consistent performance gains, while ablations demonstrate the benefits of each self-supervised task and additional gains from joint training. While both supervised fine-tuning and Audio-R1 improve self-supervised task accuracy, Audio-R1 further improves performance on downstream tasks distinct from the training tasks. These results highlight the potential of RL post-training with self-supervised audio tasks to improve downstream performance and reasoning-trace quality.