SMEBENCH: Benchmarking Neural Music Editing with Synthetized MIDI Edits
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The paper introduces MuseCPEval, the first comprehensive framework for assessing Music Context Preservation (MuseCP) in music editing systems. It defines four categories of music facets and provides fine‑grained metrics to detect subtle changes during editing tasks such as timbre transfer, instrument substitution, and genre transformation. The authors validate the metrics objectively and through a human study, and demonstrate their practical use in evaluating diverse editing systems, offering insights into each system’s strengths and limitations.
arXiv:2607. 11124v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Music creation is fundamentally a process of revision.
Gangqinpu is a large, multi‑genre piano dataset that provides aligned audio, MIDI, and musical scores for 18,786 pieces, covering pop, classical, jazz, folk/traditional, rock, and blues. The dataset includes automatic note‑level alignments, beat/downbeat annotations, genre labels, and a binary classifier to filter non‑expressive performances. It is designed to reduce data leakage with ASAP splits and has shown cross‑dataset improvements in beat tracking and in‑domain gains for transcription and expressive performance rendering.
SpanSynth-Edit is a flow‑matching model that enables MIDI‑guided synthesis and editing of multi‑instrument audio mixtures using low‑frame‑rate scalar‑quantised latents. It encodes instrument‑labelled note lifecycles as unordered event sets, pools them into a conditioning vector per audio‑latent frame, and uses contextual audio for instrument‑specific timbre guidance. The model supports editing by resynthesising target regions from revised MIDI and demonstrates competitive performance on single‑ and multi‑instrument benchmarks, including within‑frame onset control.
arXiv:2608. 14916v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI-generated music detectors are commonly evaluated against original songs, but real-world uploads are often remixed, re-encoded, pitch-shifted, or otherwise edited.
AVENUE is a new benchmark and evaluation framework for audio‑video editing that includes 1,291 source clips and 7,957 editing instructions covering audio‑targeted, video‑targeted, and coupled edits. It introduces a sample‑specific, modality‑aware evaluation that specifies the intended change and the content that must remain unchanged. The study applies this framework to joint, sequential, and separate editing models, revealing that existing models often alter unintended modalities, highlighting a key challenge in controllable AV editing.