3 papers
cs.SD2026
Woosh: A Sound Effects Foundation Model
Gaëtan Hadjeres, Marc Ferras, Khaled Koutini +7
The audio research community depends on open generative models as foundational tools for building novel approaches and establishing baselines. In this report, we present Woosh, Son…
cs.CL2026
HumMusQA: A Human-written Music Understanding QA Benchmark Dataset
Benno Weck, Pablo Puentes, Andrea Poltronieri +2
The evaluation of music understanding in Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) requires a rigorously defined benchmark that truly tests whether models can perceive and interpret musi…
cs.SD2025
CrossMuSim: A Cross-Modal Framework for Music Similarity Retrieval with LLM-Powered Text Description Sourcing and Mining
Tristan Tsoi, Jiajun Deng, Yaolong Ju +3
Music similarity retrieval is fundamental for managing and exploring relevant content from large collections in streaming platforms. This paper presents a novel cross-modal contras…