ReasonAudio: A Benchmark for Evaluating Reasoning Beyond Matching in Text-Audio Retrieval

ArXi:2605.03361v2 Announce Type: new As multimodal content continues to expand at a rapid pace, audio retrieval has emerged as a key enabling technology for media search, content organization, and intelligent assistants. However, most existing benchmarks concentrate on semantic matching and fail to capture the fact that real-world queries often demand advanced reasoning abilities, including negation understanding, temporal ordering, concurrent event recognition, and duration discrimination. To address this gap, we