multimodal benchmark
MMAU Sound
A subset of the MMAU benchmark focused specifically on environmental sound understanding and reasoning tasks. Part of a comprehensive multimodal audio understanding benchmark that evaluates models on expert-level knowledge and complex reasoning across environmental sound clips.
Updated Aug 7, 2026
Published models1
Registry coverage1
MetricScore
EvidenceB
MMAU Sound leaderboard
Sorted by the source-provided rank. Higher score is better according to the registry.
| 1 | AC | 67.9% | 100.0% | 1 | C |
MMAU Sound highlights
The top published results on this benchmark's own scale.
What is MMAU Sound?
Definition and scoring fields from the benchmark registry.
A subset of the MMAU benchmark focused specifically on environmental sound understanding and reasoning tasks. Part of a comprehensive multimodal audio understanding benchmark that evaluates models on expert-level knowledge and complex reasoning across environmental sound clips.
Scores are shown in ratio. The current registry marks this benchmark as not independently verified with evidence level B.
- Family
- MMAU Sound
- Modality
- multimodal
- Primary category
- multimodal
- Score direction
- higher
- LLMBoard eligible
- No
- Evaluation key
- mmau-sound|llm-stats-current
Source-native results are preserved. Eligibility for the overall LLMBoard score is a separate policy decision.
FAQ
Common questions about MMAU Sound.
Which model scores highest on MMAU Sound?
Qwen2.5-Omni-7B is currently ranked first with 67.9%.
What does MMAU Sound measure?
A subset of the MMAU benchmark focused specifically on environmental sound understanding and reasoning tasks. Part of a comprehensive multimodal audio understanding benchmark that evaluates models on expert-level knowledge and complex reasoning across environmental sound clips.
Is a higher score better?
Yes. Higher values rank better for this benchmark.
How many models are compared?
1 unique published model results are currently shown.
Does this benchmark affect the overall score?
This benchmark is preserved as source-native evidence but is not eligible for the current overall score.