English
Related papers

Related papers: SCORE: Scaling audio generation using Standardized…

200 papers

Recently, the application of diffusion models has facilitated the significant development of speech and audio generation. Nevertheless, the quality of samples generated by diffusion models still needs improvement. And the effectiveness of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Wenhao Guan , Kaidi Wang , Wangjin Zhou , Yang Wang , Feng Deng , Hui Wang , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong , Yong Qin

Aligning diffusion model outputs with downstream objectives is essential for improving task-specific performance. Broadly, inference-time training-free approaches for aligning diffusion models can be categorized into two main strategies:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Maurya Goyal , Anuj Singh , Hadi Jamali-Rad

We present SoundLoCD, a novel text-to-sound generation framework, which incorporates a LoRA-based conditional discrete contrastive latent diffusion model. Unlike recent large-scale sound generation models, our model can be efficiently…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Xinlei Niu , Jing Zhang , Christian Walder , Charles Patrick Martin

Currently, high-quality, synchronized audio is synthesized from video and optional text inputs using various multi-modal joint learning frameworks. However, the precise alignment between the visual and generated audio domains remains far…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yunming Liang , Zihao Chen , Chaofan Ding , Xinhan Di

Neural image-to-text radiology report generation systems offer the potential to improve radiology reporting by reducing the repetitive process of report drafting and identifying possible medical errors. However, existing report generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yasuhide Miura , Yuhao Zhang , Emily Bao Tsai , Curtis P. Langlotz , Dan Jurafsky

Instruction-tuned large language models have shown remarkable performance in aligning generated text with user intentions across various tasks. However, maintaining human-like discourse structure in the generated text remains a challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Yinhong Liu , Yixuan Su , Ehsan Shareghi , Nigel Collier

Audio-to-score alignment is an important pre-processing step for in-depth analysis of classical music. In this paper, we apply novel transposition-invariant audio features to this task. These low-dimensional features represent local pitch…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Andreas Arzt , Stefan Lattner

Diffusion models excel in generative tasks, but aligning them with specific objectives while maintaining their versatility remains challenging. Existing fine-tuning methods often suffer from reward over-optimization, while approximate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Sunwoo Kim , Minkyu Kim , Dongmin Park

Controlled text generation is very important for the practical use of language models because it ensures that the produced text includes only the desired attributes from a specific domain or dataset. Existing methods, however, are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sangwon Yu , Changmin Lee , Hojin Lee , Sungroh Yoon

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generative modeling. However, this study confirms the existence of overfitting in diffusion model training, particularly in data-limited regimes. To address this challenge, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Liang Hou , Yuan Gao , Boyuan Jiang , Xin Tao , Qi Yan , Renjie Liao , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Kun Gai

Generative modeling has recently achieved remarkable success across text, image, and audio domains, demonstrating powerful capabilities for unified representation learning. However, audio generation models still face challenges in terms of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Chengwei Liu , Haoyin Yan , Shaofei Xue , Xiaotao Liang , Yinghao Liu , Zheng Xue , Gang Song , Boyang Zhou

Inference-time alignment methods have gained significant attention for their efficiency and effectiveness in aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, existing dominant approaches using reward-guided search…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Bin Xie , Bingbing Xu , Yige Yuan , Shengmao Zhu , Huawei Shen

Deep generative models have shown impressive results in text-to-image synthesis. However, current text-to-image models often generate images that are inadequately aligned with text prompts. We propose a fine-tuning method for aligning such…

To meet the requirements of real-world applications, it is essential to control generations of large language models (LLMs). Prior research has tried to introduce reinforcement learning (RL) into controllable text generation while most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Wendi Li , Wei Wei , Kaihe Xu , Wenfeng Xie , Dangyang Chen , Yu Cheng

Modern embedding-based metrics for evaluation of generated text generally fall into one of two paradigms: discriminative metrics that are trained to directly predict which outputs are of higher quality according to supervised human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yiwei Qin , Weizhe Yuan , Graham Neubig , Pengfei Liu

Discourse coherence plays an important role in the translation of one text. However, the previous reported models most focus on improving performance over individual sentence while ignoring cross-sentence links and dependencies, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Hao Xiong , Zhongjun He , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

In this work, we build a simple but strong baseline for sounding video generation. Given base diffusion models for audio and video, we integrate them with additional modules into a single model and train it to make the model jointly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Masato Ishii , Akio Hayakawa , Takashi Shibuya , Yuki Mitsufuji

Neural network models for audio tasks, such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) and acoustic scene classification (ASC), are susceptible to noise contamination for real-life applications. To improve audio quality, an enhancement module,…

Modern end-to-end speech recognition models show astonishing results in transcribing audio signals into written text. However, conventional data feeding pipelines may be sub-optimal for low-resource speech recognition, which still remains a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Anastasia Kuznetsova , Anurag Kumar , Jennifer Drexler Fox , Francis Tyers

Is it possible to build a general and automatic natural language generation (NLG) evaluation metric? Existing learned metrics either perform unsatisfactorily or are restricted to tasks where large human rating data is already available. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Wenda Xu , Yilin Tuan , Yujie Lu , Michael Saxon , Lei Li , William Yang Wang