AudioDER

AudioDER: Deduplication-enhanced reasoning dataset for post-training large audio-language models

Researchers introduce AudioDER, a ~191k-sample post-training dataset for Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) built via an acoustic similarity-based deduplication pipeline to reduce redundancy and improve corpus diversity. Each sample pairs an audio clip with a multiple-choice question, answer candidates, a caption, and a chain-of-thought rationale generated by Qwen3-30B. Post-training Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct on AudioDER yields consistent gains on audio reasoning benchmarks including MMAU-mini, MMSU, and MMAR. The work addresses a data quality gap in audio-language training rather than proposing a new model architecture.