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most citedMasked Latent Prediction and Classification for Self-Supervised Audio Representation Learning

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23 papers

cs.SD2026

SonicCaps: Large-Scale Diverse and Fine-Grained Captioning for Improved Audio-Retrieval

Zineb Lahrichi, Marc Ferras, Gaël Richard +1

Recent advances in audio-language modeling have been driven by large-scale audio captioning datasets. However, existing datasets remain limited by low semantic diversity, generic d…

cs.LG2026

Where Flow Matching Leaks: Characterising Membership Signals Along the Interpolation Path

Thomas Sesmat, Gabriel Meseguer-Brocal, Geoffroy Peeters

Understanding memorization in generative models remains challenging, with implications for copyright and privacy. Beyond verbatim reproduction, models can encode subtler traces of…

cs.AI2026

S-SONDO: Self-Supervised Knowledge Distillation for General Audio Foundation Models

Mohammed Ali El Adlouni, Aurian Quelennec, Pierre Chouteau +2

General audio foundation models have recently achieved remarkable progress, enabling strong performance across diverse tasks. However, state-of-the-art models remain extremely larg…

cs.SD2026

S-PRESSO: Ultra Low Bitrate Sound Effect Compression With Diffusion Autoencoders And Offline Quantization

Zineb Lahrichi, Gaëtan Hadjeres, Gaël Richard +1

Neural audio compression models have recently achieved extreme compression rates, enabling efficient latent generative modeling. Conversely, latent generative models have been appl…

cs.SD2025★ 4 cited

Twenty-Five Years of MIR Research: Achievements, Practices, Evaluations, and Future Challenges

Geoffroy Peeters, Zafar Rafii, Magdalena Fuentes +4

In this paper, we trace the evolution of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) over the past 25 years. While MIR gathers all kinds of research related to music informatics, a large par…

cs.SD2025

Controlling Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning with Knowledge-Driven Multiple Hypothesis: Application to Beat Tracking

Antonin Gagnere, Slim Essid, Geoffroy Peeters

Ambiguities in data and problem constraints can lead to diverse, equally plausible outcomes for a machine learning task. In beat and downbeat tracking, for instance, different list…

cs.SD2025

MATPAC++: Enhanced Masked Latent Prediction for Self-Supervised Audio Representation Learning

Aurian Quelennec, Pierre Chouteau, Geoffroy Peeters +1

Masked latent prediction has emerged as a leading paradigm in self-supervised learning (SSL), especially for general audio and music representation learning. While recent methods h…

cs.SD2025

Translation-Equivariant Self-Supervised Learning for Pitch Estimation with Optimal Transport

Bernardo Torres, Alain Riou, Gaël Richard +1

In this paper, we propose an Optimal Transport objective for learning one-dimensional translation-equivariant systems and demonstrate its applicability to single pitch estimation.…

cs.SD2025★ 5 cited

PESTO: Real-Time Pitch Estimation with Self-supervised Transposition-equivariant Objective

Alain Riou, Bernardo Torres, Ben Hayes +4

In this paper, we introduce PESTO, a self-supervised learning approach for single-pitch estimation using a Siamese architecture. Our model processes individual frames of a Variable…

cs.LG2025

Episode-specific Fine-tuning for Metric-based Few-shot Learners with Optimization-based Training

Xuanyu Zhuang, Geoffroy Peeters, Gaël Richard

In few-shot classification tasks (so-called episodes), a small set of labeled support samples is provided during inference to aid the classification of unlabeled query samples. Met…

cs.SD2025

The Inverse Drum Machine: Source Separation Through Joint Transcription and Analysis-by-Synthesis

Bernardo Torres, Geoffroy Peeters, Gael Richard

We present the Inverse Drum Machine, a novel approach to Drum Source Separation that leverages an analysis-by-synthesis framework combined with deep learning. Unlike recent supervi…

cs.SD2025

QINCODEC: Neural Audio Compression with Implicit Neural Codebooks

Zineb Lahrichi, Gaëtan Hadjeres, Gael Richard +1

Neural audio codecs, neural networks which compress a waveform into discrete tokens, play a crucial role in the recent development of audio generative models. State-of-the-art code…

cs.SD2025★ 5 cited

Masked Latent Prediction and Classification for Self-Supervised Audio Representation Learning

Aurian Quelennec, Pierre Chouteau, Geoffroy Peeters +1

Recently, self-supervised learning methods based on masked latent prediction have proven to encode input data into powerful representations. However, during training, the learned l…

eess.AS2024★ 1 cited

A Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning scheme for beat tracking amenable to few-shot learning

Antonin Gagnere, Geoffroy Peeters, Slim Essid

In this paper, we propose a novel Self-Supervised-Learning scheme to train rhythm analysis systems and instantiate it for few-shot beat tracking. Taking inspiration from the Contra…

cs.SD2024

Zero-shot Musical Stem Retrieval with Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures

Alain Riou, Antonin Gagneré, Gaëtan Hadjeres +2

In this paper, we tackle the task of musical stem retrieval. Given a musical mix, it consists in retrieving a stem that would fit with it, i.e., that would sound pleasant if played…

eess.AS2024

Episodic fine-tuning prototypical networks for optimization-based few-shot learning: Application to audio classification

Xuanyu Zhuang, Geoffroy Peeters, Gaël Richard

The Prototypical Network (ProtoNet) has emerged as a popular choice in Few-shot Learning (FSL) scenarios due to its remarkable performance and straightforward implementation. Build…

cs.SD2024

Stem-JEPA: A Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture for Musical Stem Compatibility Estimation

Alain Riou, Stefan Lattner, Gaëtan Hadjeres +2

This paper explores the automated process of determining stem compatibility by identifying audio recordings of single instruments that blend well with a given musical context. To t…

cs.SD2024

Investigating Design Choices in Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures for General Audio Representation Learning

Alain Riou, Stefan Lattner, Gaëtan Hadjeres +1

This paper addresses the problem of self-supervised general-purpose audio representation learning. We explore the use of Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPA) for this ta…

cs.SD2024

Unsupervised Harmonic Parameter Estimation Using Differentiable DSP and Spectral Optimal Transport

Bernardo Torres, Geoffroy Peeters, Gaël Richard

In neural audio signal processing, pitch conditioning has been used to enhance the performance of synthesizers. However, jointly training pitch estimators and synthesizers is a cha…

cs.SD2023

On the choice of the optimal temporal support for audio classification with Pre-trained embeddings

Aurian Quelennec, Michel Olvera, Geoffroy Peeters +1

Current state-of-the-art audio analysis systems rely on pre-trained embedding models, often used off-the-shelf as (frozen) feature extractors. Choosing the best one for a set of ta…

cs.SD2023

Blind estimation of audio effects using an auto-encoder approach and differentiable digital signal processing

Côme Peladeau, Geoffroy Peeters

Blind Estimation of Audio Effects (BE-AFX) aims at estimating the Audio Effects (AFXs) applied to an original, unprocessed audio sample solely based on the processed audio sample.…

cs.SD2023

Self-Similarity-Based and Novelty-based loss for music structure analysis

Geoffroy Peeters

Music Structure Analysis (MSA) is the task aiming at identifying musical segments that compose a music track and possibly label them based on their similarity. In this paper we pro…

eess.AS2023

PESTO: Pitch Estimation with Self-supervised Transposition-equivariant Objective

Alain Riou, Stefan Lattner, Gaëtan Hadjeres +1

In this paper, we address the problem of pitch estimation using Self Supervised Learning (SSL). The SSL paradigm we use is equivariance to pitch transposition, which enables our mo…