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7 papers

cs.CV2026

V2M-Zero: Zero-Pair Time-Aligned Video-to-Music Generation

Yan-Bo Lin, Jonah Casebeer, Long Mai +3

Generating music that temporally aligns with video events is challenging for existing text-to-music models, which lack fine-grained temporal control. We introduce V2M-ZERO, a video…

cs.SD2026

A Generative-First Neural Audio Autoencoder

Jonah Casebeer, Ge Zhu, Zhepei Wang +1

Neural autoencoders underpin generative models. Practical, large-scale use of neural autoencoders for generative modeling necessitates fast encoding, low latent rates, and a single…

cs.SD2026

TAC: Timestamped Audio Captioning

Sonal Kumar, Prem Seetharaman, Ke Chen +8

Large Audio Language Models struggle to disentangle overlapping events in complex acoustic scenes, yielding temporally inconsistent captions and frequent hallucinations. We introdu…

cs.SD2026

Stemphonic: All-at-once Flexible Multi-stem Music Generation

Shih-Lun Wu, Ge Zhu, Juan-Pablo Caceres +2

Music stem generation, the task of producing musically-synchronized and isolated instrument audio clips, offers the potential of greater user control and better alignment with musi…

cs.SD2026

Rethinking Music Captioning with Music Metadata LLMs

Irmak Bukey, Zhepei Wang, Chris Donahue +1

Music captioning, or the task of generating a natural language description of music, is useful for both music understanding and controllable music generation. Training captioning m…

cs.SD2025

DRAGON: Distributional Rewards Optimize Diffusion Generative Models

Yatong Bai, Jonah Casebeer, Somayeh Sojoudi +1

We present Distributional RewArds for Generative OptimizatioN (DRAGON), a versatile framework for fine-tuning media generation models towards a desired outcome. Compared with tradi…