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In this paper, we propose a non-parallel any-to-many voice conversion (VC) method termed VoiceGrad. Inspired by WaveGrad, a recently introduced novel waveform generation method, VoiceGrad is based upon the concepts of score matching and…

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Deep generative models can generate high-fidelity audio conditioned on various types of representations (e.g., mel-spectrograms, Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC)). Recently, such models have been used to synthesize audio waveforms…

We propose a gradient preconditioning method that makes reward-guided generation with one-step generative models both efficient and reliable. Test-time noise optimization can unlock substantially better reward-guided generations from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jisung Hwang , Minhyuk Sung

We construct few deep generative models of gravitational waveforms based on the semi-supervising scheme of conditional autoencoders and their variational extensions. Once the training is done, we find that our best waveform model can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Chung-Hao Liao , Feng-Li Lin

Score-based generative models (SGMs) synthesize new data samples from Gaussian white noise by running a time-reversed Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) whose drift coefficient depends on some probabilistic score. The discretization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Florentin Guth , Simon Coste , Valentin De Bortoli , Stephane Mallat

Binaural audio plays a significant role in constructing immersive augmented and virtual realities. As it is expensive to record binaural audio from the real world, synthesizing them from mono audio has attracted increasing attention. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-30 Yichong Leng , Zehua Chen , Junliang Guo , Haohe Liu , Jiawei Chen , Xu Tan , Danilo Mandic , Lei He , Xiang-Yang Li , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

Flow matching offers a robust and stable approach to training diffusion models. However, directly applying flow matching to neural vocoders can result in subpar audio quality. In this work, we present WaveFM, a reparameterized flow matching…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Tianze Luo , Xingchen Miao , Wenbo Duan

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become exceedingly popular in a wide range of data-driven research fields, due in part to their success in image generation. Their ability to generate new samples, often from only a small amount…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Thomas Wiest , Nicholas Cummins , Alice Baird , Simone Hantke , Judith Dineley , Björn Schuller

Seismic wave generation creates labeled waveform datasets for source parameter inversion, subsurface analysis, and, notably, training artificial intelligence seismology models. Traditionally, seismic wave generation has been time-consuming,…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Longfei Duan , Zicheng Zhang , Lianqing Zhou , Congying Han , Lei Bai , Tiande Guo , Cuiping Zhao

Audio signals are sampled at high temporal resolutions, and learning to synthesize audio requires capturing structure across a range of timescales. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have seen wide success at generating images that are…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Chris Donahue , Julian McAuley , Miller Puckette

Gravitational-wave analyses depend heavily on waveforms that model the evolution of compact binary coalescences as seen by observing detectors. In many cases these waveforms are given by waveform approximants, models that approximate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-11 Quirijn Meijer , Sarah Caudill

This paper proposes an effective probability density distillation (PDD) algorithm for WaveNet-based parallel waveform generation (PWG) systems. Recently proposed teacher-student frameworks in the PWG system have successfully achieved a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-29 Ryuichi Yamamoto , Eunwoo Song , Jae-Min Kim

Diffusion models generate high-quality synthetic data. They operate by defining a continuous-time forward process which gradually adds Gaussian noise to data until fully corrupted. The corresponding reverse process progressively "denoises"…

This paper aims to apply a new deep learning approach to the task of generating raw audio files. It is based on diffusion models, a recent type of deep generative model. This new type of method has recently shown outstanding results with…

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Neural waveform models such as the WaveNet are used in many recent text-to-speech systems, but the original WaveNet is quite slow in waveform generation because of its autoregressive (AR) structure. Although faster non-AR models were…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-30 Xin Wang , Shinji Takaki , Junichi Yamagishi

In this paper we propose WaveGlow: a flow-based network capable of generating high quality speech from mel-spectrograms. WaveGlow combines insights from Glow and WaveNet in order to provide fast, efficient and high-quality audio synthesis,…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Ryan Prenger , Rafael Valle , Bryan Catanzaro

We introduce a new generative model where samples are produced via Langevin dynamics using gradients of the data distribution estimated with score matching. Because gradients can be ill-defined and hard to estimate when the data resides on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yang Song , Stefano Ermon

In the Data-Centric Artificial Intelligence (AI) paradigm, improving data quality is essential for robust machine learning. However, many denoising methods rely on rigid statistical assumptions or require clean reference data, which limits…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 J. Javier Alonso-Ramos , Ignacio Aguilera-Martos , Francisco Herrera , Andrés Herrera-Poyatos

In the generator of typical Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), a noise is inputted to generate fake samples via a series of convolutional operations. However, current noise generation models merely relies on the information from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Shaoning Zeng , Bob Zhang

Recently, universal waveform generation tasks have been investigated conditioned on various out-of-distribution scenarios. Although GAN-based methods have shown their strength in fast waveform generation, they are vulnerable to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Sang-Hoon Lee , Ha-Yeong Choi , Seong-Whan Lee