arXiv:2605. 03395v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Music popularity prediction has attracted growing research interest, with relevance to artists, platforms, and recommendation systems.
arXiv:2606. 30561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern AI evaluation frameworks treat evaluator disagreement as noise to be resolved.
The paper introduces a self‑supervised framework that maps text, audio, image, and video into a shared 256‑dimensional embedding space and uses iterative clustering to uncover aesthetic structure. It examines how AI’s cluster assignments diverge from human affective labels on a weakly supervised multimodal dataset. The study highlights implications for cross‑modal similarity, media organization for Retrieval‑Augmented Generation, and automated data labeling.
The paper explores how AI can develop its own aesthetic categorization of art across text, audio, image, and video without explicit labels. Using a self‑supervised framework, the authors embed these modalities into a shared 256‑dimensional space and iteratively cluster the data to uncover aesthetic structure. They compare the AI’s cluster assignments with human affective labels, highlighting divergences and discussing implications for cross‑modal similarity, media organization, and automated labeling.
arXiv:2605. 20731v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-to-image models now generate graphic design at production scale, yet their supervision still comes primarily from photo-style preference datasets with a single overall verdict per comparison.
The study shows that when people enjoy an artwork, they are more likely to believe it was created by a human, regardless of whether it was actually AI-generated or not. In a large online Turing Test, 22.1 percentage points more of respondents who favored a picture thought it was human-made, and this pattern held across all images and detection methods. Even those who were skeptical of AI art often preferred AI-generated pieces but still attributed them to humans, indicating a strong link between aesthetic preference and perceived authorship.
arXiv:2607. 06929v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Music aesthetic assessment is a challenging yet underexplored problem, requiring models to capture fine-grained, multi-dimensional human perceptual judgments.
The paper introduces the MATCHA dataset, comprising 1,105 perceptual assessments from 83 experts on attribute-based music matches across five musical attributes—melody, harmony, rhythm, voice, and timbre. A triplet-based forced-choice experiment with 300 cases, including plagiarism, cover songs, and AI-generated music, was used to gather these judgments. Results show measurable agreement among participants and partial alignment with computational similarity measures, highlighting the need for perceptually grounded evaluation in generative AI for music.
arXiv:2606. 26114v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We examine the structural transformation of creative industries under generative artificial intelligence, drawing on 374 primary sources spanning policy documents, industry data, creator surveys, and platform analytics.
arXiv:2607. 03296v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Crossmodal correspondences between sound and taste are well established in psychology and neuroscience, but largely absent from content-based multimedia retrieval.
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it investigates whether newer generative models are getting better at pastiching contemporary artworks.
arXiv:2610.10003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Style transfer lacks a reliable evaluation standard: ground truth is inherently ill-defined, and existing automatic metrics often fail to reflect human...