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We introduce Noise2Music, where a series of diffusion models is trained to generate high-quality 30-second music clips from text prompts. Two types of diffusion models, a generator model, which generates an intermediate representation…

Speech enhancement remains challenging due to the trade-off between efficiency and perceptual quality. In this paper, we introduce MAGE, a Masked Audio Generative Enhancer that advances generative speech enhancement through a compact and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 The Hieu Pham , Tan Dat Nguyen , Phuong Thanh Tran , Joon Son Chung , Duc Dung Nguyen

Latent diffusion models offer an attractive alternative to discrete diffusion for non-autoregressive text generation by operating on continuous text representations and denoising entire sequences in parallel. The major challenge in latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Viacheslav Meshchaninov , Alexander Shabalin , Egor Chimbulatov , Nikita Gushchin , Ilya Koziev , Alexander Korotin , Dmitry Vetrov

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have attracted significant interest in extending their capabilities to multimodal scenarios, particularly for speech-to-speech conversational systems. However, existing multimodal models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Tianqiao Liu , Xueyi Li , Hao Wang , Haoxuan Li , Zhichao Chen , Weiqi Luo , Zitao Liu

Despite their success, unsupervised domain adaptation methods for semantic segmentation primarily focus on adaptation between image domains and do not utilize other abundant visual modalities like depth, infrared and event. This limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Ruihao Xia , Yu Liang , Peng-Tao Jiang , Hao Zhang , Bo Li , Yang Tang , Pan Zhou

Foley sound generation aims to synthesise the background sound for multimedia content. Previous models usually employ a large development set with labels as input (e.g., single numbers or one-hot vector). In this work, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yi Yuan , Haohe Liu , Xubo Liu , Xiyuan Kang , Peipei Wu , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

The introduction of audio latent diffusion models possessing the ability to generate realistic sound clips on demand from a text description has the potential to revolutionize how we work with audio. In this work, we make an initial attempt…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Dimitrios Bralios , Gordon Wichern , François G. Germain , Zexu Pan , Sameer Khurana , Chiori Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) offer a compelling alternative to autoregressive models (ARMs) for discrete text generation because they enable parallel token sampling, rather than sequential, left-to-right generation. This means potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Iskander Azangulov , Teodora Pandeva , Niranjani Prasad , Javier Zazo , Sushrut Karmalkar

We introduce MDSGen, a novel framework for vision-guided open-domain sound generation optimized for model parameter size, memory consumption, and inference speed. This framework incorporates two key innovations: (1) a redundant video…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Trung X. Pham , Tri Ton , Chang D. Yoo

Autoregressive models (ARMs) are hindered by slow sequential inference. While masked diffusion models (MDMs) offer a parallel alternative, they suffer from critical drawbacks: high computational overhead from precluding Key-Value (KV)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jia-Nan Li , Jian Guan , Wei Wu , Chongxuan Li

Autoregressive (AR) models remain the standard for natural language generation but still suffer from high latency due to strictly sequential decoding. Recent diffusion-inspired approaches, such as LlaDA and Dream, mitigate this by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Qinglin Zhu , Yizhen Yao , Runcong Zhao , Yanzheng Xiang , Amrutha Saseendran , Chen Jin , Philip Teare , Bin Liang , Yulan He , Lin Gui

Foley sound generation, the art of creating audio for multimedia, has recently seen notable advancements through text-conditioned latent diffusion models. These systems use multimodal text-audio representation models, such as Contrastive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Tornike Karchkhadze , Hassan Salami Kavaki , Mohammad Rasool Izadi , Bryce Irvin , Mikolaj Kegler , Ari Hertz , Shuo Zhang , Marko Stamenovic

Recent attempts to interleave autoregressive (AR) sketchers with diffusion-based refiners over continuous speech representations have shown promise, but they remain brittle under distribution shift and offer limited levers for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Yakun Song , Xiaobin Zhuang , Jiawei Chen , Zhikang Niu , Guanrou Yang , Chenpeng Du , Dongya Jia , Zhuo Chen , Yuping Wang , Yuxuan Wang , Xie Chen

In recent years, speech diffusion models have advanced rapidly. Alongside the widely used U-Net architecture, transformer-based models such as the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) have also gained attention. However, current DiT speech models…

Token-based language modeling is a prominent approach for speech generation, where tokens are obtained by quantizing features from self-supervised learning (SSL) models and extracting codes from neural speech codecs, generally referred to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Yang Yang , Yunpeng Li , George Sung , Shao-Fu Shih , Craig Dooley , Alessio Centazzo , Ramanan Rajeswaran

Medical image segmentation models struggle with rare abnormalities due to scarce annotated pathological data. We propose DiffAug a novel framework that combines textguided diffusion-based generation with automatic segmentation validation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Maham Nazir , Muhammad Aqeel , Francesco Setti

Recent advancements in video diffusion models have significantly enhanced audio-driven portrait animation. However, current methods still suffer from flickering, identity drift, and poor audio-visual synchronization. These issues primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zhenjie Liu , Jianzhang Lu , Renjie Lu , Cong Liang , Shangfei Wang

Diffusion models have achieved great success in modeling continuous data modalities such as images, audio, and video, but have seen limited use in discrete domains such as language. Recent attempts to adapt diffusion to language have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Justin Lovelace , Varsha Kishore , Chao Wan , Eliot Shekhtman , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Diffusion models have revolted the field of text-to-image generation recently. The unique way of fusing text and image information contributes to their remarkable capability of generating highly text-related images. From another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Changming Xiao , Qi Yang , Feng Zhou , Changshui Zhang

In real-life conversations, the content is diverse, and there exists the one-to-many problem that requires diverse generation. Previous studies attempted to introduce discrete or Gaussian-based continuous latent variables to address the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jianxiang Xiang , Zhenhua Liu , Haodong Liu , Yin Bai , Jia Cheng , Wenliang Chen