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cs.SD2026

MusPyExpress: Extending MusPy with Enhanced Expression Text Support

Phillip Long, Hao-Wen Dong, Julian McAuley +1

Current work in modeling symbolic music primarily relies on representations extracted from MIDI-like data. While such formats allow for modeling symbolic music as sequences of note…

cs.SD2026

Local Multimodal Music Alignment from Global Supervision

Irmak Bukey, Zachary Novack, Jongmin Jung +2

Understanding music requires understanding localized relationships across data modalities, e.g., how time in performance audio maps onto position in a score image. Yet supervision…

cs.SD2025

MuseTok: Symbolic Music Tokenization for Generation and Semantic Understanding

Jingyue Huang, Zachary Novack, Phillip Long +4

Discrete representation learning has shown promising results across various domains, including generation and understanding in image, speech and language. Inspired by these advance…

cs.SD2025

MusiCRS: Benchmarking Audio-Centric Conversational Recommendation

Rohan Surana, Amit Namburi, Gagan Mundada +4

Conversational recommendation has advanced rapidly with large language models (LLMs), yet music remains a uniquely challenging domain in which effective recommendations require rea…

cs.SD2025

WildScore: Benchmarking MLLMs in-the-Wild Symbolic Music Reasoning

Gagan Mundada, Yash Vishe, Amit Namburi +4

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across various vision-language tasks. However, their reasoning abilities in th…

cs.SD2025

Video-Guided Text-to-Music Generation Using Public Domain Movie Collections

Haven Kim, Zachary Novack, Weihan Xu +2

Despite recent advancements in music generation systems, their application in film production remains limited, as they struggle to capture the nuances of real-world filmmaking, whe…

cs.SD2025

Fast Text-to-Audio Generation with Adversarial Post-Training

Zachary Novack, Zach Evans, Zack Zukowski +8

Text-to-audio systems, while increasingly performant, are slow at inference time, thus making their latency unpractical for many creative applications. We present Adversarial Relat…

cs.SD2025

Are you really listening? Boosting Perceptual Awareness in Music-QA Benchmarks

Yongyi Zang, Sean O'Brien, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick +2

Large Audio Language Models (LALMs), where pretrained text LLMs are finetuned with audio input, have made remarkable progress in music understanding. However, current evaluation me…

cs.SD2025

Aligning Text-to-Music Evaluation with Human Preferences

Yichen Huang, Zachary Novack, Koichi Saito +5

Despite significant recent advances in generative acoustic text-to-music (TTM) modeling, robust evaluation of these models lags behind, relying in particular on the popular Fréchet…

cs.SD2024

CoLLAP: Contrastive Long-form Language-Audio Pretraining with Musical Temporal Structure Augmentation

Junda Wu, Warren Li, Zachary Novack +3

Modeling temporal characteristics plays a significant role in the representation learning of audio waveform. We propose Contrastive Long-form Language-Audio Pretraining (\textbf{Co…

cs.SD2024

Presto! Distilling Steps and Layers for Accelerating Music Generation

Zachary Novack, Ge Zhu, Jonah Casebeer +3

Despite advances in diffusion-based text-to-music (TTM) methods, efficient, high-quality generation remains a challenge. We introduce Presto!, an approach to inference acceleration…

cs.SD2024★ 8 cited

PDMX: A Large-Scale Public Domain MusicXML Dataset for Symbolic Music Processing

Phillip Long, Zachary Novack, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick +1

The recent explosion of generative AI-Music systems has raised numerous concerns over data copyright, licensing music from musicians, and the conflict between open-source AI and la…

cs.SD2024

Futga: Towards Fine-grained Music Understanding through Temporally-enhanced Generative Augmentation

Junda Wu, Zachary Novack, Amit Namburi +5

Existing music captioning methods are limited to generating concise global descriptions of short music clips, which fail to capture fine-grained musical characteristics and time-aw…

cs.SD2024

DITTO-2: Distilled Diffusion Inference-Time T-Optimization for Music Generation

Zachary Novack, Julian McAuley, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick +1

Controllable music generation methods are critical for human-centered AI-based music creation, but are currently limited by speed, quality, and control design trade-offs. Diffusion…

cs.SD2024★ 3 cited

DITTO: Diffusion Inference-Time T-Optimization for Music Generation

Zachary Novack, Julian McAuley, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick +1

We propose Diffusion Inference-Time T-Optimization (DITTO), a general-purpose frame-work for controlling pre-trained text-to-music diffusion models at inference-time via optimizing…

cs.SD2023

Unsupervised Lead Sheet Generation via Semantic Compression

Zachary Novack, Nikita Srivatsan, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick +1

Lead sheets have become commonplace in generative music research, being used as an initial compressed representation for downstream tasks like multitrack music generation and autom…