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  1. Finetuning Strategies for Querying Sounds by Vocal Imitation

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    The authors describe their winning strategy for a sound effect querying competition in 2025, which involved two fine-tuning strategies: contrastive learning with a frozen pretrained CED encoder and joint…

  2. Agon: Competitive Cross-Model RL with Implicit Rival Grading of Reasoning

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    The paper introduces Agon, a new reinforcement learning approach that trains two reasoning models by having them compete against each other. This competitive grading system aims to improve the quality of thinking…