activity
20242026
collaborators

7 papers

cs.SD2026

LiveBand: Live Accompaniment Generation in the Audio Domain

Marco Pasini, Javier Nistal, Ben Hayes +3

We present LiveBand, a real-time system that generates high-fidelity music accompaniments to live audio input, respecting strict causal constraints. Our method trains a causal tran…

cs.SD2026

Diffusion Timbre Transfer Via Mutual Information Guided Inpainting

Ching Ho Lee, Javier Nistal, Stefan Lattner +2

We study timbre transfer as an inference-time editing problem for music audio. Starting from a strong pre-trained latent diffusion model, we introduce a lightweight procedure that…

cs.SD2025

LiLAC: A Lightweight Latent ControlNet for Musical Audio Generation

Tom Baker, Javier Nistal

Text-to-audio diffusion models produce high-quality and diverse music but many, if not most, of the SOTA models lack the fine-grained, time-varying controls essential for music pro…

cs.SD2025

Accompaniment Prompt Adherence: A Measure for Evaluating Music Accompaniment Systems

Maarten Grachten, Javier Nistal

Generative systems of musical accompaniments are rapidly growing, yet there are no standardized metrics to evaluate how well generations align with the conditional audio prompt. We…

cs.LG2024

Continuous Autoregressive Models with Noise Augmentation Avoid Error Accumulation

Marco Pasini, Javier Nistal, Stefan Lattner +1

Autoregressive models are typically applied to sequences of discrete tokens, but recent research indicates that generating sequences of continuous embeddings in an autoregressive m…

cs.SD2024

Improving Musical Accompaniment Co-creation via Diffusion Transformers

Javier Nistal, Marco Pasini, Stefan Lattner

Building upon Diff-A-Riff, a latent diffusion model for musical instrument accompaniment generation, we present a series of improvements targeting quality, diversity, inference spe…