Thesis Proposal: Multimodal Benchmark for Music Understanding in Large Language Models (2026.eacl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Existing music-focused benchmarks are fragmented, largely single-modality, Western-centric . existing methods for evaluating MLLMs are lacking reproducibility and reliability . |
| Approach: | They propose to develop a musically multimodal benchmark that will integrate music into the benchmark. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark will integrate culturally diverse musical material beyond the dominant Western canon. |
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