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most citedBenchmarking Music Generation Models and Metrics via Human Preference Studies

3 citations · 7 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.SD2026

VCNAC: A Variable-Channel Neural Audio Codec for Mono, Stereo, and Surround Sound

Florian Grötschla, Arunasish Sen, Alessandro Lombardi +2

We present VCNAC, a variable channel neural audio codec. Our approach features a single encoder and decoder parametrization that enables native inference for different channel setu…

cs.SD2025

Multi-bit Audio Watermarking

Luca A. Lanzendörfer, Kyle Fearne, Florian Grötschla +1

We present Timbru, a post-hoc audio watermarking model that achieves state-of-the-art robustness and imperceptibility trade-offs without training an embedder-detector model. Given…

cs.SD2025

Bias beyond Borders: Global Inequalities in AI-Generated Music

Ahmet Solak, Florian Grötschla, Luca A. Lanzendörfer +1

While recent years have seen remarkable progress in music generation models, research on their biases across countries, languages, cultures, and musical genres remains underexplore…

cs.SD2025

SALSA-V: Shortcut-Augmented Long-form Synchronized Audio from Videos

Amir Dellali, Luca A. Lanzendörfer, Florian Grötschla +1

We propose SALSA-V, a multimodal video-to-audio generation model capable of synthesizing highly synchronized, high-fidelity long-form audio from silent video content. Our approach…

cs.SD2025

Benchmarking Diarization Models

Luca A. Lanzendörfer, Florian Grötschla, Cesare Blaser +1

Speaker diarization is the task of partitioning audio into segments according to speaker identity, answering the question of "who spoke when" in multi-speaker conversation recordin…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

Benchmarking Music Generation Models and Metrics via Human Preference Studies

Florian Grötschla, Ahmet Solak, Luca A. Lanzendörfer +1

Recent advancements have brought generated music closer to human-created compositions, yet evaluating these models remains challenging. While human preference is the gold standard…

cs.SD2025

High-Fidelity Music Vocoder using Neural Audio Codecs

Luca A. Lanzendörfer, Florian Grötschla, Michael Ungersböck +1

While neural vocoders have made significant progress in high-fidelity speech synthesis, their application on polyphonic music has remained underexplored. In this work, we propose D…

cs.SD2024★ 1 cited

Audio Atlas: Visualizing and Exploring Audio Datasets

Luca A. Lanzendörfer, Florian Grötschla, Uzeyir Valizada +1

We introduce Audio Atlas, an interactive web application for visualizing audio data using text-audio embeddings. Audio Atlas is designed to facilitate the exploration and analysis…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Benchmarking Positional Encodings for GNNs and Graph Transformers

Florian Grötschla, Jiaqing Xie, Roger Wattenhofer

Positional Encodings (PEs) are essential for injecting structural information into Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), particularly Graph Transformers, yet their empirical impact remains…

cs.SD2024

SNAC: Multi-Scale Neural Audio Codec

Hubert Siuzdak, Florian Grötschla, Luca A. Lanzendörfer

Neural audio codecs have recently gained popularity because they can represent audio signals with high fidelity at very low bitrates, making it feasible to use language modeling ap…

cs.DC2024★ 1 cited

On the Lifecycle of a Lightning Network Payment Channel

Florian Grötschla, Lioba Heimbach, Severin Richner +1

The Bitcoin Lightning Network, launched in 2018, serves as a layer 2 scaling solution for Bitcoin. The Lightning Network allows users to establish channels between each other and s…

cs.SD2024

Towards Leveraging Contrastively Pretrained Neural Audio Embeddings for Recommender Tasks

Florian Grötschla, Luca Strässle, Luca A. Lanzendörfer +1

Music recommender systems frequently utilize network-based models to capture relationships between music pieces, artists, and users. Although these relationships provide valuable i…

cs.AI2024

GraphFSA: A Finite State Automaton Framework for Algorithmic Learning on Graphs

Florian Grötschla, Joël Mathys, Christoffer Raun +1

Many graph algorithms can be viewed as sets of rules that are iteratively applied, with the number of iterations dependent on the size and complexity of the input graph. Existing m…

cs.CV2024

AEye: A Visualization Tool for Image Datasets

Florian Grötschla, Luca A. Lanzendörfer, Marco Calzavara +1

Image datasets serve as the foundation for machine learning models in computer vision, significantly influencing model capabilities, performance, and biases alongside architectural…

cs.CR2024

Benchmarking GNNs Using Lightning Network Data

Rainer Feichtinger, Florian Grötschla, Lioba Heimbach +1

The Bitcoin Lightning Network is a layer 2 protocol designed to facilitate fast and inexpensive Bitcoin transactions. It operates by establishing channels between users, where Bitc…

cs.LG2024

Next Level Message-Passing with Hierarchical Support Graphs

Carlos Vonessen, Florian Grötschla, Roger Wattenhofer

Message-Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) are extensively employed in graph learning tasks but suffer from limitations such as the restricted scope of information exchange, by being…

cs.LG2023

SURF: A Generalization Benchmark for GNNs Predicting Fluid Dynamics

Stefan Künzli, Florian Grötschla, Joël Mathys +1

Simulating fluid dynamics is crucial for the design and development process, ranging from simple valves to complex turbomachinery. Accurately solving the underlying physical equati…