Audio Event Timing QA - Longest Duration: leaderboard

Four-option questions asking which of four sound events in a real-world Freesound clip (event timings from the TACOS corpus) lasts longest; the correct event is at least one second longer than every other option. From a study of temporal-reasoning failures in large audio-language models (Kulkarni et al., 2026); the model hears only the audio, with no caption, and the score is accuracy in percent over 630 questions, higher is better.

Metric: Accuracy (%; which of four sound events lasts longest, audio only; 630 questions). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 4 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Kimi-Audio-7B-Instruct59.37#1436
2Audio Flamingo 358.1
3DeSTA2.5-Audio54.92#1758
4Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct32.54

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