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7 papers

cs.SD2026

Dialogue-Aware Video-to-Music Generation Using Public Domain Film Collections

Haven Kim, Zachary Novack, Julian McAuley +1

Video-to-music generation has drawn growing interest for its role in conveying the emotion of visual media, including film. Progress in the field, however, is hampered by a reprodu…

cs.CV2026

Equilibrium Forcing: Adaptive Video Generation Without Noise Conditioning

Hansen Jin Lillemark, Alex Rojas, Zachary Novack +5

Standard autoregressive video generation algorithms based on Diffusion and Flow Matching rely on rigid training objectives and static sampling schedules, limiting inference procedu…

cs.SD2026

Low-Resource Guidance for Controllable Latent Audio Diffusion

Zachary Novack, Zack Zukowski, CJ Carr +6

Generative audio requires fine-grained controllable outputs, yet most existing methods require model retraining on specific controls or inference-time controls (\textit{e.g.}, guid…

cs.LG2026

CSyMR: Benchmarking Compositional Music Information Retrieval in Symbolic Music Reasoning

Boyang Wang, Yash Vishe, Xin Xu +4

Natural language information needs over symbolic music scores rarely reduce to a single step lookup. Many queries require compositional Music Information Retrieval (MIR) that extra…

cs.SD2025

SoundReactor: Frame-level Online Video-to-Audio Generation

Koichi Saito, Julian Tanke, Christian Simon +7

Prevailing Video-to-Audio (V2A) generation models operate offline, assuming an entire video sequence or chunks of frames are available beforehand. This critically limits their use…

cs.SD2025

WildFX: A DAW-Powered Pipeline for In-the-Wild Audio FX Graph Modeling

Qihui Yang, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Julian McAuley +1

Despite rapid progress in end-to-end AI music generation, AI-driven modeling of professional Digital Signal Processing (DSP) workflows remains challenging. In particular, while the…