2026-10-12 · ArXiv
arXiv:2610.13081v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent work on large audio-language models (LALMs) explores adaptive reasoning to balance accuracy and efficiency. However, existing approaches often rely on coarse-grained difficulty estimation, overlooking the diverse factors that determine reasoning effort. We address this limitation by deriving five-dimensional difficulty scores and compressed reasoning traces from complementary offline assessments. Based on this characterization, we propose SWEAR, a difficulty-aware reasoning framework that learns difficulty signals during supervised fine-tuning and uses reinforcement learning to adapt reasoning allocation across reasoning stages. Experiments on MMAU-test-mini and MMAR show that SWEAR improves accuracy while substantially reducing generated tokens, shortening reasoning for easy instances without sacrificing performance on difficult ones.
原文链接：https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13081
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