2026
PHALAR: Phasors for Learned Musical Audio Representations
Davide Marincione, Michele Mancusi, Giorgio Strano, Luca Cerovaz, Donato Crisostomi, Roberto Ribuoli +1
ICML 2026poster
Stem retrieval, the task of matching missing stems to a given audio submix, is a key challenge currently limited by models that discard temporal information. We introduce PHALAR, a contrastive framework achieving a relative accuracy increase of up to $\sim 70\%$ over the state-of-the-art while requi…