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State-space models (SSMs) have emerged as a powerful foundation for long-range sequence modeling, with the HiPPO framework showing that continuous-time projection operators can be used to derive stable, memory-efficient dynamical systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ruben Solozabal , Velibor Bojkovic , Hilal Alquabeh , Klea Ziu , Kentaro Inui , Martin Takac

Recent progress in deep learning for audio synthesis opens the way to models that directly produce the waveform, shifting away from the traditional paradigm of relying on vocoders or MIDI synthesizers for speech or music generation. Despite…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Alexandre Défossez , Neil Zeghidour , Nicolas Usunier , Léon Bottou , Francis Bach

In this work, we introduce S4M, a new efficient speech separation framework based on neural state-space models (SSM). Motivated by linear time-invariant systems for sequence modeling, our SSM-based approach can efficiently model input…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Chen Chen , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Kai Li , Yuchen Hu , Pin-Jui Ku , Eng Siong Chng

A central goal of sequence modeling is designing a single principled model that can address sequence data across a range of modalities and tasks, particularly on long-range dependencies. Although conventional models including RNNs, CNNs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Albert Gu , Karan Goel , Christopher Ré

Several recent work on speech synthesis have employed generative adversarial networks (GANs) to produce raw waveforms. Although such methods improve the sampling efficiency and memory usage, their sample quality has not yet reached that of…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Jungil Kong , Jaehyeon Kim , Jaekyoung Bae

We present a lightweight latent diffusion model for vocal-conditioned musical accompaniment generation that addresses critical limitations in existing music AI systems. Our approach introduces a novel soft alignment attention mechanism that…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hei Shing Cheung , Boya Zhang , Jonathan H. Chan

We introduce InspireMusic, a framework integrated super resolution and large language model for high-fidelity long-form music generation. A unified framework generates high-fidelity music, songs, and audio, which incorporates an…

Audio classification can distinguish different kinds of sounds, which is helpful for intelligent applications in daily life. However, it remains a challenging task since the sound events in an audio clip is probably multiple, even…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-22 Jiaxu Chen , Jing Hao , Kai Chen , Di Xie , Shicai Yang , Shiliang Pu

Transformers have revolutionized deep learning across various tasks, including audio representation learning, due to their powerful modeling capabilities. However, they often suffer from quadratic complexity in both GPU memory usage and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-06 Siavash Shams , Sukru Samet Dindar , Xilin Jiang , Nima Mesgarani

Audio generation has achieved remarkable progress with the advance of sophisticated generative models, such as diffusion models (DMs) and autoregressive (AR) models. However, due to the naturally significant sequence length of audio, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Kai Qiu , Xiang Li , Hao Chen , Jie Sun , Jinglu Wang , Zhe Lin , Marios Savvides , Bhiksha Raj

State Space Models (SSMs) have emerged as powerful components for sequence modeling, enabling efficient handling of long-range dependencies via linear recurrence and convolutional computation. However, their effectiveness depends heavily on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hossein Babaei , Mel White , Richard G. Baraniuk

In this paper, we propose a novel score-base generative model for unconditional raw audio synthesis. Our proposal builds upon the latest developments on diffusion process modeling with stochastic differential equations, which already…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Simon Rouard , Gaëtan Hadjeres

In this work, we propose DiffWave, a versatile diffusion probabilistic model for conditional and unconditional waveform generation. The model is non-autoregressive, and converts the white noise signal into structured waveform through a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-01 Zhifeng Kong , Wei Ping , Jiaji Huang , Kexin Zhao , Bryan Catanzaro

Neural waveform models such as WaveNet have demonstrated better performance than conventional vocoders for statistical parametric speech synthesis. As an autoregressive (AR) model, WaveNet is limited by a slow sequential waveform generation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Xin Wang , Shinji Takaki , Junichi Yamagishi

A central challenge in sequence modeling is efficiently handling tasks with extended contexts. While recent state-space models (SSMs) have made significant progress in this area, they often lack input-dependent filtering or require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Taylan Soydan , Nikola Zubić , Nico Messikommer , Siddhartha Mishra , Davide Scaramuzza

We consider the generative modeling of speech over multiple minutes, a requirement for long-form multimedia generation and audio-native voice assistants. However, textless spoken language models struggle to generate plausible speech past…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Se Jin Park , Julian Salazar , Aren Jansen , Keisuke Kinoshita , Yong Man Ro , RJ Skerry-Ryan

Recent work shows that reinforcement learning(RL) can markedly sharpen the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) by prompting them to "think before answering." Yet whether and how these gains transfer to audio-language reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Cheng Wen , Tingwei Guo , Shuaijiang Zhao , Wei Zou , Xiangang Li

Audio-based generative models for music have seen great strides recently, but so far have not managed to produce full-length music tracks with coherent musical structure from text prompts. We show that by training a generative model on long…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Zach Evans , Julian D. Parker , CJ Carr , Zack Zukowski , Josiah Taylor , Jordi Pons

This work addresses the lack of multimodal generative models capable of producing high-quality videos with spatially aligned audio. While recent advancements in generative models have been successful in video generation, they often overlook…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Kazuki Shimada , Christian Simon , Takashi Shibuya , Shusuke Takahashi , Yuki Mitsufuji

Diffusion models have recently been shown to be relevant for high-quality speech generation. Most work has been focused on generating spectrograms, and as such, they further require a subsequent model to convert the spectrogram to a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Roi Benita , Michael Elad , Joseph Keshet