Exploring Musical Roots: Applying Audio Embeddings to Empower Influence Attribution for a Generative Music Model

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Autores principales: Barnett, Julia, Garcia, Hugo Flores, Pardo, Bryan
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author Barnett, Julia
Garcia, Hugo Flores
Pardo, Bryan
author_facet Barnett, Julia
Garcia, Hugo Flores
Pardo, Bryan
contents Every artist has a creative process that draws inspiration from previous artists and their works. Today, "inspiration" has been automated by generative music models. The black box nature of these models obscures the identity of the works that influence their creative output. As a result, users may inadvertently appropriate, misuse, or copy existing artists' works. We establish a replicable methodology to systematically identify similar pieces of music audio in a manner that is useful for understanding training data attribution. A key aspect of our approach is to harness an effective music audio similarity measure. We compare the effect of applying CLMR and CLAP embeddings to similarity measurement in a set of 5 million audio clips used to train VampNet, a recent open source generative music model. We validate this approach with a human listening study. We also explore the effect that modifications of an audio example (e.g., pitch shifting, time stretching, background noise) have on similarity measurements. This work is foundational to incorporating automated influence attribution into generative modeling, which promises to let model creators and users move from ignorant appropriation to informed creation. Audio samples that accompany this paper are available at https://tinyurl.com/exploring-musical-roots.
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spellingShingle Exploring Musical Roots: Applying Audio Embeddings to Empower Influence Attribution for a Generative Music Model
Barnett, Julia
Garcia, Hugo Flores
Pardo, Bryan
Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Audio and Speech Processing
Every artist has a creative process that draws inspiration from previous artists and their works. Today, "inspiration" has been automated by generative music models. The black box nature of these models obscures the identity of the works that influence their creative output. As a result, users may inadvertently appropriate, misuse, or copy existing artists' works. We establish a replicable methodology to systematically identify similar pieces of music audio in a manner that is useful for understanding training data attribution. A key aspect of our approach is to harness an effective music audio similarity measure. We compare the effect of applying CLMR and CLAP embeddings to similarity measurement in a set of 5 million audio clips used to train VampNet, a recent open source generative music model. We validate this approach with a human listening study. We also explore the effect that modifications of an audio example (e.g., pitch shifting, time stretching, background noise) have on similarity measurements. This work is foundational to incorporating automated influence attribution into generative modeling, which promises to let model creators and users move from ignorant appropriation to informed creation. Audio samples that accompany this paper are available at https://tinyurl.com/exploring-musical-roots.
title Exploring Musical Roots: Applying Audio Embeddings to Empower Influence Attribution for a Generative Music Model
topic Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14542