
We explore the application of denoising diffusion processes as plug-and-play latent constraints for unconditional symbolic music generation models. Recent advances in latent diffusion models have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in high-dimensional time-series data synthesis while providing flexible control through conditioning and guidance. However, existing methodologies primarily rely on musical context or natural language as the main modality of interacting with the generative process, which may not be ideal for expert users seeking precise fader-like manipulation of specific musical attributes. In this work, we focus on a framework leveraging a library of small conditional diffusion models operating as implicit probabilistic priors on the latents of a frozen unconditional backbone. While previous studies have explored domain-specific use cases, this work, to the best of our knowledge, is the first to demonstrate the versatility of such an approach across a diverse array of musical attributes, such as note density, pitch range, contour, and rhythm complexity. Our experiments show that diffusion-driven constraints outperform traditional attribute regularization and other latent constraints architectures, achieving significantly stronger correlations between target and generated attributes while maintaining high perceptual quality and diversity.
Machine Learning, FOS: Computer and information sciences, Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), Artificial Intelligence, Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS), FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Audio and Speech Processing, Machine Learning (cs.LG)
Machine Learning, FOS: Computer and information sciences, Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), Artificial Intelligence, Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS), FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Audio and Speech Processing, Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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