@article{deafabenchmarkfordiagnosticevaluationofa, title = {DEAF: A Benchmark for Diagnostic Evaluation of Acoustic Faithfulness in Audio Language Models}, author = {Jiaqi Xiong and Yunjia Qi and Qi Cao and Yu Zheng and Yutong Zhang and Ziteng Wang and Ruofan Liao and Weisheng Xu and Sichen Liu}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2603.18048}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18048}, }