@inproceedings{xiong-etal-2026-deaf, title = "{DEAF}: A Benchmark for Diagnostic Evaluation of Acoustic Faithfulness in Large Audio Language Models", author = "Xiong, Jiaqi and Qi, Yunjia and Cao, Qi and Zheng, Yu and Zhang, Yutong and Wang, Ziteng and Liao, Ruofan and Xu, Weisheng and Liu, Sichen", editor = "Zhang, Yue and Xu, Ruifeng and Purwarianti, Ayu and Rong, Tong and Suzuki, Jun", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {IJCNLP}-{AACL} 2026", month = nov, year = "2026", address = "Hengqin, China", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-aacl.165/", pages = "3286--3299", ISBN = "979-8-89176-444-6" }