Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) are augmented with the ability to perceive audio, demonstrating impressive capabilities in processing combined audio and text signals. However, their reliability when faced with conflicting inputs across modalities remains largely unexplored. This study examines how LALMs prioritize information when presented with inconsistent audio-text pairs. Through extensive evaluation across diverse audio understanding tasks, we reveal a concerning phenomenon: when inconsistencies exist between modalities, LALMs display a significant bias toward textual input, often disregarding audio evidence. This tendency leads to substantial performance degradation in audio-centric tasks and raises important reliability concerns for real-world applications. We further investigate the influencing factors of text bias, explore mitigation strategies through supervised fine-tuning, and analyze model confidence patterns that reveal persistent overconfidence even with contradictory inputs. These findings underscore the need for improved modality balancing during training and more sophisticated fusion mechanisms to enhance robustness when handling conflicting multi-modal inputs. The project is available at https://github.com/WangCheng0116/MCR-BENCH.

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have exhibited extraordinary prowess in tasks like mathematics and coding, leveraging their advanced reasoning capabilities. Nevertheless, as these capabilities progress, significant concerns regarding their vulnerabilities and safety have arisen, which can pose challenges to their deployment and application in real-world settings. This paper presents the first comprehensive survey of LRMs, meticulously exploring and summarizing the newly emerged safety risks, attacks, and defense strategies specific to these powerful reasoning-enhanced models. By organizing these elements into a detailed taxonomy, this work aims to offer a clear and structured understanding of the current safety landscape of LRMs, facilitating future research and development to enhance the security and reliability of these powerful models.