Audio Flamingo: A Novel Audio Language Model with Few-Shot Learning and Dialogue Abilities

Title: Audio Flamingo: A Novel Audio Language Model with Few-Shot Learning and Dialogue Abilities
Authors: Zhifeng Kong, Arushi Goel, Rohan Badlani, Wei Ping, Rafael Valle, Bryan Catanzaro
Published: 2nd February 2024 (Friday) @ 18:58:34
Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01831v1

Abstract

Augmenting large language models (LLMs) to understand audio — including non-speech sounds and non-verbal speech — is critically important for diverse real-world applications of LLMs. In this paper, we propose Audio Flamingo, a novel audio language model with 1) strong audio understanding abilities, 2) the ability to quickly adapt to unseen tasks via in-context learning and retrieval, and 3) strong multi-turn dialogue abilities. We introduce a series of training techniques, architecture design, and data strategies to enhance our model with these abilities. Extensive evaluations across various audio understanding tasks confirm the efficacy of our method, setting new state-of-the-art benchmarks.

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