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AllMusicCaps: Album Reviews as Complementary Supervision for Music CLAP
Pablo Alonso-Jiménez, Xavier Lizarraga-Seijas, Xavier Serra +1
Recent open text-audio contrastive models (CLAPs) are typically trained with LLM-generated captions derived from tag datasets or web search results, which tend to be accurate but e…
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What Makes a Good Layer? Assessing the Layer-Wise Intrinsic Properties of Music Foundation Models
Angelos-Nikolaos Kanatas, Yuexuan Kong, Pablo Alonso-Jiménez +2
Music foundation models are commonly used as frozen audio feature extractors, yet selecting which layer to extract from remains largely heuristic. Current practice defaults to fixe…