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most citedFoundation Models for Music: A Survey

8 citations · 18 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

eess.AS2026

High-Fidelity Song Generation with Joint Discrete and Continuous Modeling

Zheqi Dai, Zhiyue Wu, Ruibin Yuan +5

Generating a full song from lyrics and a style description requires long-range musical planning without sacrificing vocal and instrumental detail. Low-rate discrete semantic tokens…

eess.AS2026

HMU-Bench: Hierarchical Music Understanding Benchmark for Omni Models

Zheqi Dai, Boyang Wang, Zhiyue Wu +6

Music-understanding benchmarks should identify both the evidence available to a model and the operations a correct answer requires. We introduce HMU-Bench, a bilingual benchmark wi…

cs.SD2026

SheetSage2: Coherent Lead-Sheet Transcription with Synthetic Supervision

Junyan Jiang, Ruibin Yuan, Jiahao Pan +4

Transcribing music into a human-readable score requires a coherent understanding of rhythm, harmony, melody, and form. Two obstacles limit this goal: annotated recordings are scarc…

cs.CV2026

HelixWorld: A Real-time Interactive Audio-Visual World Model

Lei Ke, Jiahao Pan, Zeyue Tian +13

World simulation is inherently multisensory, demanding synchronized visual and acoustic dynamics in real time. Yet prevailing interactive world models remain strictly silent, focus…

eess.AS2026

YuE2: Unifying Symbolic and Audio Music Generation at Frontier Quality

Ruibin Yuan, Jiahao Pan, Junyan Jiang +32

Symbolic models make melody, harmony, rhythm, and form explicit but typically stop before a finished recording; audio models produce complete songs while leaving composition implic…

eess.AS2026

StepAudio 3 Music Technical Report

Chengli Feng, Zhiyue Wu, Jiahao Song +10

We introduce StepAudio 3 Music, a large-scale, long-form music generation model that supports explicit musical planning and open-domain text-controlled generation. The StepAudio Mu…

cs.AI2026

Scaling Large Reasoning Models beyond Human Supervision: A Path toward Superintelligence

Zhiqin Yang, Jingwen Fu, Yuhan Liu +16

Recent advances in large reasoning models (LRMs) have shown that reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) can substantially improve reasoning in mathematics and code,…

cs.SD2026

UniVerse: Benchmarking and Enhancing LALMs on Culturally Inclusive Low-Resource Music Understanding

Ziya Zhou, Shangda Wu, Shenyang Xu +16

Recent advances in large audio-language models (LALMs) have significantly improved performance in tasks such as music captioning, genre classification, and sound event detection. H…

cs.SD2026

Qwen-Music Technical Report

Jin Xu, Kangdi Wang, Ruibin Yuan +24

We introduce Qwen-Music, a music generation model that produces high-fidelity songs with complete vocals. It supports text-to-music generation from descriptions, lyrics, and musica…

cs.CV2026

Hierarchical Denoising For Multi-Step Visual Reasoning

Zezhong Qian, Xiaowei Chi, Chak-Wing Mak +9

Video models are evolving into vision foundation models, yet they still lack human-like multi-step reasoning. Streaming autoregressive diffusion models are efficient but limited in…

cs.CV2026

ReBind: Multi-Reference Video Editing via Structured Instructions with Explicit Reference Relationships

Xinyu Liu, Shihao Li, Weihong Lin +10

Recent diffusion-based video generation models have made significant progress in multi-reference image-conditioned video editing. However, existing methods still struggle to coordi…

cs.SD2026

AudioX-Turbo: A Unified Framework for Efficient Anything-to-Audio Generation

Zeyue Tian, Lei Ke, Zhaoyang Liu +8

Audio and music generation based on flexible multimodal control signals is a widely applicable topic, with the following key challenges: 1) a unified multimodal modeling framework,…

cs.SD2026★ 1 cited

Audio-Omni: Extending Multi-modal Understanding to Versatile Audio Generation and Editing

Zeyue Tian, Binxin Yang, Zhaoyang Liu +8

Recent progress in multimodal models has spurred rapid advances in audio understanding, generation, and editing. However, these capabilities are typically addressed by specialized…

cs.SD2026

CMI-RewardBench: Evaluating Music Reward Models with Compositional Multimodal Instruction

Yinghao Ma, Haiwen Xia, Hewei Gao +9

While music generation models have evolved to handle complex multimodal inputs mixing text, lyrics, and reference audio, evaluation mechanisms have lagged behind. In this paper, we…

cs.SD2026

Voices of Civilizations: A Multilingual QA Benchmark for Global Music Understanding

Shangda Wu, Ziya Zhou, Yongyi Zang +4

We introduce Voices of Civilizations, the first multilingual QA benchmark for evaluating audio LLMs' cultural comprehension on full-length music recordings. Covering 380 tracks acr…

eess.AS2025

SongFormer: Scaling Music Structure Analysis with Heterogeneous Supervision

Chunbo Hao, Ruibin Yuan, Jixun Yao +5

Music structure analysis (MSA) underpins music understanding and controllable generation, yet progress has been limited by small, inconsistent corpora. We present SongFormer, a sca…

cs.SD2025

UniSS: Unified Expressive Speech-to-Speech Translation with Your Voice

Sitong Cheng, Weizhen Bian, Xinsheng Wang +5

The ultimate goal of expressive speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) is to accurately translate spoken content while preserving the speaker identity and emotional style. However, pr…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

WenetSpeech-Yue: A Large-scale Cantonese Speech Corpus with Multi-dimensional Annotation

Longhao Li, Zhao Guo, Hongjie Chen +15

The development of speech understanding and generation has been significantly accelerated by the availability of large-scale, high-quality speech datasets. Among these, ASR and TTS…

cs.SD2025

MMAR: A Challenging Benchmark for Deep Reasoning in Speech, Audio, Music, and Their Mix

Ziyang Ma, Yinghao Ma, Yanqiao Zhu +31

We introduce MMAR, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the deep reasoning capabilities of Audio-Language Models (ALMs) across massive multi-disciplinary tasks. MMAR comprises 1,00…

eess.AS2025

SongEval: A Benchmark Dataset for Song Aesthetics Evaluation

Jixun Yao, Guobin Ma, Huixin Xue +9

Aesthetics serve as an implicit and important criterion in song generation tasks that reflect human perception beyond objective metrics. However, evaluating the aesthetics of gener…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

Spark-TTS: An Efficient LLM-Based Text-to-Speech Model with Single-Stream Decoupled Speech Tokens

Xinsheng Wang, Mingqi Jiang, Ziyang Ma +22

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have driven significant progress in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. However, existing foundation models rely on multi-…

cs.MM2025

AudioX: A Unified Framework for Anything-to-Audio Generation

Zeyue Tian, Zhaoyang Liu, Yizhu Jin +6

Audio and music generation based on flexible multimodal control signals is a widely applicable topic, with the following key challenges: 1) a unified multimodal modeling framework,…

eess.AS2025★ 1 cited

YuE: Scaling Open Foundation Models for Long-Form Music Generation

Ruibin Yuan, Hanfeng Lin, Shuyue Guo +55

We tackle the task of long-form music generation--particularly the challenging \textbf{lyrics-to-song} problem--by introducing YuE, a family of open foundation models based on the…

cs.SD2025

Audio-FLAN: An Instruction-Following Dataset for Unified Audio Understanding and Generation of Speech, Music, and Sound

Liumeng Xue, Ziya Zhou, Jiahao Pan +20

Recent advancements in audio tokenization have significantly enhanced the integration of audio capabilities into large language models (LLMs). However, audio understanding and gene…