VocalRep: Structure-Aware Vocal Representations for Multimodal Generation (2026.findings-acl)
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Da Shen, Zhenqiang Weng, Tianyu Liu, Gongyu Chen, Runhua Shi, Jiahui Chen, Chaofan Ding, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Zihao Chen
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to vocal separation are optimized for signal-level reconstruction, but they overlook structural disentanglement required for downstream generation tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a structure-aware learning framework to disentangle vocals, harmonies, and accompaniment . they combine global vocal identity conditioning with ranking-based objectives . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework disentangles lead vocals, harmonies, and accompaniment while enforcing role consistency across long-form audio. |
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