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Improving Text-to-Music Generation with Human Preference Rewards
Yonghyun Kim, Junwon Lee, Haiwen Xia +2
We describe our entry to the efficiency track of the Academic Text-to-Music (ATTM) Grand Challenge at ICME 2026. Beyond the challenge protocol's FAD-CLAP and CLAP score, we add a l…
TuneJury: An Open Metric for Improving Music Generation Preference Alignment
Yonghyun Kim, Junwon Lee, Haiwen Xia +5
We introduce TuneJury, an open, instance-level pairwise reward model for text-to-music that predicts a music preference score from a text prompt and an audio clip. The released che…
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…
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…
AVMeme Exam: A Multimodal Multilingual Multicultural Benchmark for LLMs' Contextual and Cultural Knowledge and Thinking
Xilin Jiang, Qiaolin Wang, Junkai Wu +30
Internet audio-visual clips convey meaning through time-varying sound and motion, which extend beyond what text alone can represent. To examine whether AI models can understand suc…
SAR-LM: Symbolic Audio Reasoning with Large Language Models
Termeh Taheri, Yinghao Ma, Emmanouil Benetos
Large language models (LLMs) have advanced in text and vision, but their reasoning on audio remains limited. Most existing methods rely on dense audio embeddings, which are difficu…