The paper introduces MusicConstraintBench, a benchmark of 2180 items testing symbolic music generation under multiple explicit constraints. It shows that current language models, such as Llama-3.1-70B, perform poorly on multi-constraint tasks, achieving only 4.4% success on four-constraint items. The authors propose MusicRLVR, a reinforcement learning approach that uses verifier rewards without human annotation, which significantly improves performance—raising Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507’s success from 16% to 80.7% on mixed constraints after 300 updates.
arXiv:2609.23665v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Constraint-following music generation asks a score to satisfy several user-specified properties at once, each checkable programmatically (key, meter,...
arXiv:2606. 07520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction Following (IF) is a core capability of LLMs, requiring strict adherence to diverse constraints, ranging from verifiable ones (e.
arXiv:2603. 00610v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While music generation models have evolved to handle complex multimodal inputs mixing text, lyrics, and reference audio, evaluation mechanisms have lagged behind.
arXiv:2606. 17006v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce TuneJury, an open, instance-level pairwise reward model for text-to-music that predicts a music preference score from a text prompt and an audio clip.
TEMPO is a unified model that adds temporally‑grounded capabilities to large audio‑language models, enabling timestamping of events, speakers, and sounds in audio, speech, and music. It introduces a supervised fine‑tuning stage featuring atomic timestamp tokens, a time‑aware projector with sinusoidal encodings, and a distance‑aware Gaussian loss, trained via a synthetic‑to‑real curriculum. Additionally, TEMPO employs reinforcement learning (GRPO) as a refinement step, and achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on a benchmark of 10K samples across five timestamping tasks, surpassing Audio Flamingo Next and Qwen3‑Omni.
arXiv:2608.20362v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is a standard recipe for training large language models on mathematical reasoning, where an ans...
arXiv:2511. 05550v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large audio language models (LALMs) leverage multimodal representations to generate open-ended answers to natural language queries about audio.
arXiv:2607. 22649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Following complex instructions with multiple explicit constraints remains a fundamental challenge for large language models (LLMs).
arXiv:2607. 13587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic symbolic music analysis has made substantial progress, yet existing systems are typically designed for a single mode of use, such as full-score prediction, and therefore do not match the broader range of operations that arise in analysis workflows, including partial completion, local correction, and iterative refinement.
arXiv:2608.30005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rubric-based reinforcement learning extends RL beyond tasks with exact answers or rule-based verifiers by scoring responses against instance-specific c...
RECAST is a new framework that generates datasets with far more constraints per example than existing benchmarks, aiming to push large language models (LLMs) to better follow complex instructions. The authors built RECAST-30K, a 30,000‑instance dataset covering 19 constraint types extracted from real prompt‑response pairs, and showed that fine‑tuning on it improves LLMs’ ability to handle complex tasks without harming general performance. RECAST also provides rule‑based and LLM‑based validators for automatic constraint verification, enabling reward‑based reinforcement learning to further enhance model performance on challenging tasks.
arXiv:2607. 11334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models can produce superficially legal twelve-tone scores that collapse into degenerate textures.