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Michele Mancusi

9 accepted papers

2026

EuleroDec: A Complex-Valued RVQ-VAE for Efficient and Robust Audio Coding

ICASSP 2026poster

Audio codecs power discrete music generative modelling, music streaming and immersive media by shrinking PCM audio to bandwidth-friendly bit-rates. Recent works have gravitated towards processing in the spectral domain; however, spectrogram-domains typically struggle with phase modeling which is nat…

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2026

PHALAR: Phasors for Learned Musical Audio Representations

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…

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2026

SteerMusic: Enhanced Musical Consistency for Zero-shot Text-Guided and Personalized Music Editing

AAAI 2026technical

Music editing is an important step in music production, which has broad applications, including game development and film production. Most existing zero-shot text-guided editing methods rely on pretrained diffusion models by involving forward-backward diffusion processes. However, these methods ofte

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2025

COCOLA: Coherence-Oriented Contrastive Learning of Musical Audio Representations

ICASSP 2025accepted

We present COCOLA (Coherence-Oriented Contrastive Learning for Audio), a contrastive learning method for musical audio representations that captures the harmonic and rhythmic coherence between samples. Our method operates at the level of the individual stems composing music tracks and can input feat…

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2025

High-Resolution Speech Restoration with Latent Diffusion Model

ICASSP 2025accepted

Traditional speech enhancement methods often oversimplify the task of restoration by focusing on a single type of distortion. Generative models that handle multiple distortions frequently struggle with phone reconstruction and high-frequency harmonics, leading to breathing and gasping artifacts that…

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2025

Latent Diffusion Bridges for Unsupervised Musical Audio Timbre Transfer

ICASSP 2025accepted

Music timbre transfer is a challenging task that involves modifying the timbral characteristics of an audio signal while preserving its melodic structure. In this paper, we propose a novel method based on dual diffusion bridges, trained using the CocoChorales Dataset, which consists of unpaired mono…

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2024

Multi-Source Diffusion Models for Simultaneous Music Generation and Separation

ICLR 2024oral

In this work, we define a diffusion-based generative model capable of both music generation and source separation by learning the score of the joint probability density of sources sharing a context. Alongside the classic total inference tasks (i.e., generating a mixture, separating the sources), we…

2023

Accelerating Transformer Inference for Translation via Parallel Decoding

ACL 2023long

Autoregressive decoding limits the efficiency of transformers for Machine Translation (MT). The community proposed specific network architectures and learning-based methods to solve this issue, which are expensive and require changes to the MT model, trading inference speed at the cost of the transl…

2023

Latent Autoregressive Source Separation

AAAI 2023technical

Autoregressive models have achieved impressive results over a wide range of domains in terms of generation quality and downstream task performance. In the continuous domain, a key factor behind this success is the usage of quantized latent spaces (e.g., obtained via VQ-VAE autoencoders), which allow…