← Search

Kejun Zhang

11 accepted papers

2026

Diff-V2M: A Hierarchical Conditional Diffusion Model with Explicit Rhythmic Modeling for Video-to-Music Generation

AAAI 2026technical

Video-to-music (V2M) generation aims to create music that aligns with visual content. However, two main challenges persist in existing methods: (1) the lack of explicit rhythm modeling hinders audiovisual temporal alignments; (2) effectively integrating various visual features to condition music gen

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

AI-Assisted Human-Pet Artistic Musical Co-Creation for Wellness Therapy

IJCAI 2025

This paper explores AI-mediated human-pet musical co-creation from an interdisciplinary perspective, leveraging recent advancements in animal-assisted therapy. These advancements have shown significant psychosocial benefits, especially in reducing anxiety and enhancing social engagement. Building on

2025

Generative Music Models’ Alignment with Professional and Amateur Users’ Expectations

ACL 2025finding

Recent years have witnessed rapid advancements in text-to-music generation using large language models, yielding notable outputs. A critical challenge is understanding users with diverse musical expertise and generating music that meets their expectations, an area that remains underexplored.To addre…

2025

SongGLM: Lyric-to-Melody Generation with 2D Alignment Encoding and Multi-Task Pre-Training

AAAI 2025technical

Lyric-to-melody generation aims to automatically create melodies based on given lyrics, requiring the capture of complex and subtle correlations between them. However, previous works usually suffer from two main challenges: 1) lyric-melody alignment modeling, which is often simplified to one-syllabl…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

End-to-end Learnable Clustering for Intent Learning in Recommendation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Intent learning, which aims to learn users' intents for user understanding and item recommendation, has become a hot research spot in recent years. However, existing methods suffer from complex and cumbersome alternating optimization, limiting performance and scalability. To this end, we propose a n…

2024

MuChin: A Chinese Colloquial Description Benchmark for Evaluating Language Models in the Field of Music

IJCAI 2024poster

The rapidly evolving multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) urgently require new benchmarks to uniformly evaluate their performance on understanding and textually describing music. However, due to semantic gaps between Music Information Retrieval (MIR) algorithms and human understanding, discrepanc…

2022

Automatic Song Translation for Tonal Languages

ACL 2022findings

This paper develops automatic song translation (AST) for tonal languages and addresses the unique challenge of aligning words’ tones with melody of a song in addition to conveying the original meaning. We propose three criteria for effective AST—preserving meaning, singability and intelligibility—an…

Cited by 16SourcePDFScholar
2022

S3T: Self-Supervised Pre-Training with Swin Transformer For Music Classification

ICASSP 2022accepted

In this paper, we propose S3T, a self-supervised pre-training method with Swin Transformer for music classification, aiming to learn meaningful music representations from massive easily accessible unlabeled music data. S3T introduces a momentum-based paradigm, MoCo, with Swin Transformer as its feat…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2022

TeleMelody: Lyric-to-Melody Generation with a Template-Based Two-Stage Method

EMNLP 2022main

Lyric-to-melody generation is an important task in automatic songwriting. Previous lyric-to-melody generation systems usually adopt end-to-end models that directly generate melodies from lyrics, which suffer from several issues: 1) lack of paired lyric-melody training data; 2) lack of control on gen…

2021

Denoispeech: Denoising Text to Speech with Frame-Level Noise Modeling

ICASSP 2021accepted

While neural-based text to speech (TTS) models can synthesize natural and intelligible voice, they usually require high-quality speech data, which is costly to collect. In many scenarios, only noisy speech of a target speaker is available, which presents challenges for TTS model training for this sp…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2021

UWSpeech: Speech to Speech Translation for Unwritten Languages

AAAI 2021technical

Existing speech to speech translation systems heavily rely on the text of target language: they usually translate source language either to target text and then synthesize target speech from text, or directly to target speech with target text for auxiliary training. However, those methods cannot be…