Unsupervised Single-Channel Audio Separation with Diffusion Source Priors
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| author | Shi, Runwu Li, Chang Wang, Jiang Zhang, Rui Khan, Nabeela Yen, Benjamin Ashizawa, Takeshi Nakadai, Kazuhiro |
| author_facet | Shi, Runwu Li, Chang Wang, Jiang Zhang, Rui Khan, Nabeela Yen, Benjamin Ashizawa, Takeshi Nakadai, Kazuhiro |
| contents | Single-channel audio separation aims to separate individual sources from a single-channel mixture. Most existing methods rely on supervised learning with synthetically generated paired data. However, obtaining high-quality paired data in real-world scenarios is often difficult. This data scarcity can degrade model performance under unseen conditions and limit generalization ability. To this end, in this work, we approach this problem from an unsupervised perspective, framing it as a probabilistic inverse problem. Our method requires only diffusion priors trained on individual sources. Separation is then achieved by iteratively guiding an initial state toward the solution through reconstruction guidance. Importantly, we introduce an advanced inverse problem solver specifically designed for separation, which mitigates gradient conflicts caused by interference between the diffusion prior and reconstruction guidance during inverse denoising. This design ensures high-quality and balanced separation performance across individual sources. Additionally, we find that initializing the denoising process with an augmented mixture instead of pure Gaussian noise provides an informative starting point that significantly improves the final performance. To further enhance audio prior modeling, we design a novel time-frequency attention-based network architecture that demonstrates strong audio modeling capability. Collectively, these improvements lead to significant performance gains, as validated across speech-sound event, sound event, and speech separation tasks. |
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| spellingShingle | Unsupervised Single-Channel Audio Separation with Diffusion Source Priors Shi, Runwu Li, Chang Wang, Jiang Zhang, Rui Khan, Nabeela Yen, Benjamin Ashizawa, Takeshi Nakadai, Kazuhiro Audio and Speech Processing Sound Single-channel audio separation aims to separate individual sources from a single-channel mixture. Most existing methods rely on supervised learning with synthetically generated paired data. However, obtaining high-quality paired data in real-world scenarios is often difficult. This data scarcity can degrade model performance under unseen conditions and limit generalization ability. To this end, in this work, we approach this problem from an unsupervised perspective, framing it as a probabilistic inverse problem. Our method requires only diffusion priors trained on individual sources. Separation is then achieved by iteratively guiding an initial state toward the solution through reconstruction guidance. Importantly, we introduce an advanced inverse problem solver specifically designed for separation, which mitigates gradient conflicts caused by interference between the diffusion prior and reconstruction guidance during inverse denoising. This design ensures high-quality and balanced separation performance across individual sources. Additionally, we find that initializing the denoising process with an augmented mixture instead of pure Gaussian noise provides an informative starting point that significantly improves the final performance. To further enhance audio prior modeling, we design a novel time-frequency attention-based network architecture that demonstrates strong audio modeling capability. Collectively, these improvements lead to significant performance gains, as validated across speech-sound event, sound event, and speech separation tasks. |
| title | Unsupervised Single-Channel Audio Separation with Diffusion Source Priors |
| topic | Audio and Speech Processing Sound |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07226 |