2 papers
cs.SD2026
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…
cs.SD2025
OMAR-RQ: Open Music Audio Representation Model Trained with Multi-Feature Masked Token Prediction
Pablo Alonso-Jiménez, Pedro Ramoneda, R. Oguz Araz +2
Developing open-source foundation models is essential for advancing research in music audio understanding and ensuring access to powerful, multipurpose representations for music in…