Unified model blends general audio understanding with spatial awareness

MiDashengLM-Spatial extends a monaural large audio-language model with a dedicated spatial encoder while preserving its general capabilities.

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Jinbo Hu · Hang Su · Lichun Fan · Heinrich Dinkel · Gang Li · Zhanchen Dai · +7 more

Xiaomi Inc.

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The authors present MiDashengLM-Spatial, the first open-source end-to-end audio-language model that jointly handles general audio understanding and spatial awareness.

The authors extended MiDashengLM, an 8B-parameter large audio-language model (LALM) designed for monaural input, with a spatial encoder called Spatial-Dasheng.

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MiDashengLM-Spatial unifies general audio understanding and spatial awareness in one open-source audio-language model.

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