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

7 citations · 8 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.SD2026

Steering dense music retrieval with open-vocabulary concept discovery

Julien Guinot, Alain Riou, Elio Quinton +1

Controllable music retrieval lets users find music that is, for example, more ambient, less distorted, or without guitar while preserving the other semantic content of an original…

cs.SD2025

GD-Retriever: Controllable Generative Text-Music Retrieval with Diffusion Models

Julien Guinot, Elio Quinton, György Fazekas

Multimodal contrastive models have achieved strong performance in text-audio retrieval and zero-shot settings, but improving joint embedding spaces remains an active research area.…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

SLAP: Siamese Language-Audio Pretraining Without Negative Samples for Music Understanding

Julien Guinot, Alain Riou, Elio Quinton +1

Joint embedding spaces have significantly advanced music understanding and generation by linking text and audio through multimodal contrastive learning. However, these approaches f…

cs.SD2024

Leave-One-EquiVariant: Alleviating invariance-related information loss in contrastive music representations

Julien Guinot, Elio Quinton, György Fazekas

Contrastive learning has proven effective in self-supervised musical representation learning, particularly for Music Information Retrieval (MIR) tasks. However, reliance on augment…

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…