Evaluating disentangled representations for controllable music generation
Resumen:
Recent approaches in music generation rely on disentangled representations, often labeled as structure and timbre or local and global, to enable controllable synthesis. Yet the underlying properties of these embeddings remain underexplored. In this work, we evaluate such disentangled representations in a set of music audio models for controllable generation using a probing-based framework that goes beyond standard downstream tasks. The selected models reflect diverse un-supervised disentanglement strategies, including inductive biases, data augmentations, adversarial objectives, and staged training procedures. We further isolate specific strategies to analyze their effect. Our analysis spans four key axes: informativeness, equivariance, invariance, and disentanglement, which are assessed across datasets, tasks, and controlled transformations. Our findings reveal inconsistencies between intended and actual semantics of the embeddings, suggesting that current strategies fall short of producing truly disentangled representations, and prompting a re-examination of how controllability is approached in music generation.
| 2026 | |
| Este trabajo ha recibido el apoyo de IA y Música : Cátedra en Inteligencia Artificial y Música (TSI-100929-2023-1), financiado por la Secretaría de Estado de Digitalización e Inteligencia Artificial y la Unión Europea (Next Generation EU), e IMPA : Multimodal AI for Audio Processing (PID2023-152250OB-I00), financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades del Gobierno español, la Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) y cofinanciado por la Unión Europea. | |
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Disentangled representations Controllable music generation Evaluation framework |
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| Universidad de la República | |
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| https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/55007 | |
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| Licencia Creative Commons Atribución - No Comercial - Sin Derivadas (CC - By-NC-ND 4.0) |