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

2 Feb 2024arXiv:2402.01831archive 2025-07-28

Zhifeng Kong, Arushi Goel, Rohan Badlani, Wei Ping, Rafael Valle, Bryan Catanzaro

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. Our demo website is https://audioflamingo.github.io/ and the code is open-sourced at https://github.com/NVIDIA/audio-flamingo.

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Acoustic Scene ClassificationAudio captioningFew-Shot LearningIn-Context LearningLanguage ModelingLanguage ModellingRetrievalRetrieval-augmented Few-shot In-context Audio CaptioningZero-shot Audio Captioning

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Acoustic Scene Classification CochlScene Audio Flamingo 1:1 Accuracy 0.830 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Audio captioning Clotho Audio Flamingo (Pengi trainset) BLEU-4 17.4 #5 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Audio captioning Clotho Audio Flamingo (Pengi trainset) CIDEr 0.489 #5 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Audio captioning Clotho Audio Flamingo (Pengi trainset) METEOR 18.7 #5 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Audio captioning Clotho Audio Flamingo (Pengi trainset) ROUGE-L 39.4 #5 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Audio captioning Clotho Audio Flamingo (Pengi trainset) SPICE 0.134 #5 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Audio captioning Clotho Audio Flamingo (Pengi trainset) SPIDEr 0.312 #5 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Retrieval-augmented Few-shot In-context Audio Captioning AudioCaps Audio Flamingo (4-shot) CIDEr 0.518 #1 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-shot Audio Captioning AudioCaps Audio Flamingo BLEU-4 14.3 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-shot Audio Captioning AudioCaps Audio Flamingo CIDEr 50.2 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-shot Audio Captioning AudioCaps Audio Flamingo METEOR 20.5 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-shot Audio Captioning AudioCaps Audio Flamingo ROUGE-L 40.8 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-shot Audio Captioning AudioCaps Audio Flamingo SPICE 15.1 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-shot Audio Captioning AudioCaps Audio Flamingo SPIDEr 32.6 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report

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