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most citedMusCaps: Generating Captions for Music Audio

27 citations · 55 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.SD2025

Live Music Models

Lyria Team, Antoine Caillon, Brian McWilliams +33

We introduce a new class of generative models for music called live music models that produce a continuous stream of music in real-time with synchronized user control. We release M…

cs.SD2024

Augment, Drop & Swap: Improving Diversity in LLM Captions for Efficient Music-Text Representation Learning

Ilaria Manco, Justin Salamon, Oriol Nieto

Audio-text contrastive models have become a powerful approach in music representation learning. Despite their empirical success, however, little is known about the influence of key…

cs.SD2024★ 8 cited

Foundation Models for Music: A Survey

Yinghao Ma, Anders Øland, Anton Ragni +39

In recent years, foundation models (FMs) such as large language models (LLMs) and latent diffusion models (LDMs) have profoundly impacted diverse sectors, including music. This com…

cs.SD2024★ 3 cited

MuChoMusic: Evaluating Music Understanding in Multimodal Audio-Language Models

Benno Weck, Ilaria Manco, Emmanouil Benetos +3

Multimodal models that jointly process audio and language hold great promise in audio understanding and are increasingly being adopted in the music domain. By allowing users to que…

cs.SD2023★ 7 cited

The Song Describer Dataset: a Corpus of Audio Captions for Music-and-Language Evaluation

Ilaria Manco, Benno Weck, SeungHeon Doh +10

We introduce the Song Describer dataset (SDD), a new crowdsourced corpus of high-quality audio-caption pairs, designed for the evaluation of music-and-language models. The dataset…

cs.SD2023

Serenade: A Model for Human-in-the-loop Automatic Chord Estimation

Hendrik Vincent Koops, Gianluca Micchi, Ilaria Manco +1

Computational harmony analysis is important for MIR tasks such as automatic segmentation, corpus analysis and automatic chord label estimation. However, recent research into the am…

cs.SD2022★ 9 cited

Contrastive Audio-Language Learning for Music

Ilaria Manco, Emmanouil Benetos, Elio Quinton +1

As one of the most intuitive interfaces known to humans, natural language has the potential to mediate many tasks that involve human-computer interaction, especially in application…

cs.SD2021★ 1 cited

Learning music audio representations via weak language supervision

Ilaria Manco, Emmanouil Benetos, Elio Quinton +1

Audio representations for music information retrieval are typically learned via supervised learning in a task-specific fashion. Although effective at producing state-of-the-art res…

cs.SD2021★ 27 cited

MusCaps: Generating Captions for Music Audio

Ilaria Manco, Emmanouil Benetos, Elio Quinton +1

Content-based music information retrieval has seen rapid progress with the adoption of deep learning. Current approaches to high-level music description typically make use of class…