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Siminfar Samakoush Galougah

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arXiv2026

Differentiable Optimization of Linear Differential Microphone Arrays: A Joint Geometry and Filter Design Framework

This paper presents a differentiable optimization framework for the design of constrained Linear Differential Microphone Arrays (LDMAs). The proposed method leverages a non-uniform delay-and-sum beamformer as a light-weight base system model, proving its ability to achieve the optimal beampattern of LDMAs by jointly optimizing microphone positions and filter weights. The formulation enables the optimized design of a filter with a distortion-free constraint in the desired sound direction, while also imposing constraints on microphone positioning to ensure consistent performance. Through evaluation on multiple metrics, including Mean Squared Error (MSE), Directivity Index (DI), White Noise Gain (WNG), and computation time, and comparison with state-of-the-art methods, this approach demonstrates a flexible, directive, robust, and hardware-efficient design.

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arXiv2026

Analytical Exploration of Spatial Audio Cues: A Differentiable Multi-Sphere Scattering Model

A primary challenge in developing synthetic spatial hearing systems, particularly underwater, is accurately modeling sound scattering. Biological organisms achieve 3D spatial hearing by exploiting sound scattering off their bodies to generate location-dependent interaural level and time differences (ITD/ILD). While Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) models based on rigid scattering suffice for terrestrial humans, they fail in underwater environments due to the near-impedance match between water and soft tissue. Motivated by the acoustic anatomy of underwater animals, we introduce a novel, analytically derived, closed-form forward model for scattering from a semi-transparent sphere containing two rigid spherical scatterers. This model accurately maps source direction, frequency, and material properties to the pressure field, capturing the complex physics of layered, penetrable structures. Critically, our model is implemented in a fully differentiable setting, enabling its integration with a machine learning algorithm to optimize a cost function for active localization. We demonstrate enhanced convergence for localization under noise using a physics-informed frequency weighting scheme, and present accurate moving-source tracking via an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) with analytically computed Jacobians. Our work suggests that differentiable models of scattering from layered rigid and transparent geometries offer a promising new foundation for microphone arrays that leverage scattering-based spatial cues over conventional beamforming, applicable to both terrestrial and underwater applications. Our model will be made open source.

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arXiv2026

Spectrum Coexistence, Network Dimensioning, and Cell-Free Architectures in 5G and 5G-Advanced Wireless Networks

Fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks introduce new architectural paradigms, spectrum usage models, and optimization challenges to support enhanced mobile broadband, massive machine-type communications, and ultra-reliable low-latency communications. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of key technologies and design challenges in 5G systems, with a focus on spectrum coexistence and interference management, network dimensioning and planning, cell-free massive MIMO architectures, fronthaul-aware user management, and power allocation strategies. Representative analytical, simulation-based, and optimization-driven approaches are reviewed, fundamental trade-offs are highlighted, and open research challenges relevant to 5G-Advanced and beyond are identified.

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arXiv2025

AURA: A Fine-Grained Benchmark and Decomposed Metric for Audio-Visual Reasoning

Current audio-visual (AV) benchmarks focus on final answer accuracy, overlooking the underlying reasoning process. This makes it difficult to distinguish genuine comprehension from correct answers derived through flawed reasoning or hallucinations. To address this, we introduce AURA (Audio-visual Understanding and Reasoning Assessment), a benchmark for evaluating the cross-modal reasoning capabilities of Audio-Visual Large Language Models (AV-LLMs) and Omni-modal Language Models (OLMs). AURA includes questions across six challenging cognitive domains, such as causality, timbre and pitch, tempo and AV synchronization, unanswerability, implicit distractions, and skill profiling, explicitly designed to be unanswerable from a single modality. This forces models to construct a valid logical path grounded in both audio and video, setting AURA apart from AV datasets that allow uni-modal shortcuts. To assess reasoning traces, we propose a novel metric, AuraScore, which addresses the lack of robust tools for evaluating reasoning fidelity. It decomposes reasoning into two aspects: (i) Factual Consistency - whether reasoning is grounded in perceptual evidence, and (ii) Core Inference - the logical validity of each reasoning step. Evaluations of SOTA models on AURA reveal a critical reasoning gap: although models achieve high accuracy (up to 92% on some tasks), their Factual Consistency and Core Inference scores fall below 45%. This discrepancy highlights that models often arrive at correct answers through flawed logic, underscoring the need for our benchmark and paving the way for more robust multimodal evaluation.

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