arXiv AI
Jul 24

AG-REPA: Causal Layer Selection for Representation Alignment in Audio Flow Matching

arXiv:2603. 01006v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: REPresentation Alignment (REPA) improves the training of generative flow models by aligning intermediate hidden states with pretrained teacher features, but its effectiveness in token-conditioned audio Flow Matching critically depends on the choice of supervised layers, which is typically made heuristically based on the depth.

By Pengfei Zhang, Tianxin Xie, Minghao Yang, Li Liu
arXiv AI
Sep 15

DuoTok: Source-Aware Dual-Track Music Tokenization for Vocal-Accompaniment Generation

DuoTok is a source‑aware dual‑track music tokenizer designed for vocal‑accompaniment generation. It first learns a semantic audio representation via self‑supervised pretraining, then refines source‑aware structure with feature‑replacement noise and multi‑task supervision (spectral reconstruction, source separation regularization, and an ASR head for lyric alignment). The encoder is frozen and hard‑routed codebooks for vocals and accompaniment are learned, while a diffusion decoder restores fine acoustic detail from the discrete tokens, achieving a favorable predictability‑fidelity trade‑off at ultra‑low bitrate across public benchmarks.

By Rui Lin, Zhiyue Wu, Jiahe Lei, Kangdi Wang, Weixiong Chen, Junyu Dai, Tao Jiang
arXiv AI
Sep 28

BAT-CLIP: Trimodal Alignment of Brain, Audio and Text

BAT-CLIP is a trimodal alignment framework that jointly aligns intracranial EEG (iEEG) neural embeddings to both pretrained audio and text anchors within a shared, frozen audio‑text manifold. Unlike existing CLIP‑style brain‑speech models that anchor neural activity to a single modality, BAT‑CLIP leverages both audio and text to preserve temporal structure and linguistic separability. On the naturalistic Podcast benchmark, BAT‑CLIP produces more robust representations than bimodal CLIP baselines and demonstrates the value of self‑supervised foundation models for CLIP training.

By Suhyun Kim, Jinmo Han, Danny Dongyeop Han, Ahhyun Lucy Lee, Jewoon Lee, Yonghyeon Gwon, Zach Paris, Chun Kee Chung, Saewoong Bahk, Nam Soo Kim, Seong Jae Hwang, Jiook Cha