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15 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.IR2026

Retrieval Augmented Conversational Recommendation with Reinforcement Learning

Zhenrui Yue, Honglei Zhuang, Zhen Qin +4

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit enhanced capabilities in language understanding and generation. By utilizing their embedded knowledge, LLMs are increasingly used as conversati…

cs.CV2026

Think in Strokes, Not Pixels: Process-Driven Image Generation via Interleaved Reasoning

Lei Zhang, Junjiao Tian, Zhipeng Fan +9

Humans paint images incrementally: they plan a global layout, sketch a coarse draft, inspect, and refine details, and most importantly, each step is grounded in the evolving visual…

cs.LG2026

Steering Autoregressive Music Generation with Recursive Feature Machines

Daniel Zhao, Daniel Beaglehole, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick +2

Controllable music generation remains a significant challenge, with existing methods often requiring model retraining or introducing audible artifacts. We introduce MusicRFM, a fra…

cs.SD2025

MuseTok: Symbolic Music Tokenization for Generation and Semantic Understanding

Jingyue Huang, Zachary Novack, Phillip Long +4

Discrete representation learning has shown promising results across various domains, including generation and understanding in image, speech and language. Inspired by these advance…

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…