@article{audiothinkerguidingaudiolanguagemodelwhe, title = {Audio-Thinker: Guiding Audio Language Model When and How to Think via Reinforcement Learning}, author = {Shu Wu and Chenxing Li and Wenfu Wang and Hao Zhang and Hualei Wang and Meng Yu and Dong Yu}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2508.08039}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08039}, }