A Blind Score Is Not a Reliance Measure: What Answering Without the Audio Shows About Audio-Language Benchmarks, Why the Partial-Input Debate Already Settled Half of It, and the Counterfactual-Audio Test the Other Half Needs

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Mahendrakar, P. (2026). A Blind Score Is Not a Reliance Measure: What Answering Without the Audio Shows About Audio-Language Benchmarks, Why the Partial-Input Debate Already Settled Half of It, and the Counterfactual-Audio Test the Other Half Needs [Journal article]. Life of Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23381527

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@misc{lor1072026,
  title        = {A Blind Score Is Not a Reliance Measure: What Answering Without the Audio Shows About Audio-Language Benchmarks, Why the Partial-Input Debate Already Settled Half of It, and the Counterfactual-Audio Test the Other Half Needs},
  author       = {Pranay Mahendrakar},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Life of Research},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23381527},
  url          = {https://lifeofresearch.com/articles/107},
  keywords     = {large audio-language models, benchmark validity, partial-input baselines, text priors, modality reliance, multimodal evaluation, shortcut learning, construct validity},
  note         = {LOR-00107}
}

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