XACLE Challenge

We have also released the ground truth scores on the test dataset for the first XACLE Challenge. We hope many of you will find them useful. github.com/XACLE-Challeng…

github.com/daisukelab/the… This is a simple solution utilizing frozen M2D-CLAP (2025) features, for your reference. Using only the XACLE dataset and a pre-trained M2D-CLAP, it may serve as another useful baseline for comparison with top approaches. #XACLE @XacleC26284

[For XACLE Challenge participants] We have released the results of the first XACLE Challenge. Thank you all for your participation. Invitations for paper submission to ICASSP 2026 will be sent to the top five ranked teams later. xacle.org/results.html

The deadline for the XACLE Challenge is today, November 24, 23:59 (AoE). Submitting your results on the Kaggle platform does not constitute a final submission. Please make sure to follow the instructions carefully and complete your final submission. xacle.org/submisson.html

[For Participants] Submitting your results on the Kaggle platform does not constitute a final submission for the XACLE Challenge. Please make sure to follow the submission instructions carefully and complete your final submission by 11/24, 23:59 (AoE). xacle.org/submisson.html

[Announce for participants] We have released the submission page. The submission deadline is November 24, 23:59 (AoE). Please make sure to carefully read the instructions on the submission page before submitting your work. xacle.org/submisson.html

We have updated the page regarding submissions. Please check it. xacle.org/submisson.html

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[Announcement for participants] We released the test data of XACLE Challenge! Details on the final submission procedure will be announced on the XACLE website by November 17. github.com/XACLE-Challeng…

Happy XACLEing! Here are some zero-shot inference examples using CLAP models (with permission from the organizers). Feel free to use or expand them in your solutions! github.com/daisukelab/the… github.com/daisukelab/the… #XACLE #ICASSP2026 @XacleC26284

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No registration is required to participate in the challenge. Everyone is welcome to join.

[Announcement for participants] We released the baseline model and dataset! Please join us! xacle.org/description.ht…

We released the task description! The dataset and baseline will be released on September 14th (AoE). xacle.org/description.ht…

[Announcement for participants] The task description will be released on September 7th (AoE) on the XACLE Challenge web page (xacle.org). The dataset and baseline will be released on September 14th (AoE). Please wait a little longer for the challenge to launch.

The first XACLE challenge at ICASSP 2026 (@ieeeICASSP) SP Grand Challenge will launch on Sep. 7, 2025 (AoE). The scope is to predict the alignment of a given audio and text pair. Upon the launch, the dataset and baseline will be available (xacle.org). Please join us