AI RESEARCH
How Contrastive Decoding Enhances Large Audio Language Models?
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2603.09232v1 Announce Type: cross While Contrastive Decoding (CD) has proven effective at enhancing Large Audio Language Models (LALMs), the underlying mechanisms driving its success and the comparative efficacy of different strategies remain unclear. This study systematically evaluates four distinct CD strategies across diverse LALM architectures. We identify Audio-Aware Decoding and Audio Contrastive Decoding as the most effective methods. However, their impact varies significantly by model. To explain this variability, we