Towards Effective Negation Modeling in Joint Audio-Text Models for Music
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| author | Vasilakis, Yannis Bittner, Rachel Pauwels, Johan |
| author_facet | Vasilakis, Yannis Bittner, Rachel Pauwels, Johan |
| contents | Joint audio-text models are widely used for music retrieval, yet they struggle with semantic phenomena such as negation. Negation is fundamental for distinguishing the absence (or presence) of musical elements (e.g., "with vocals" vs. "without vocals"), but current systems fail to represent this reliably. In this work, we investigate and mitigate this limitation by training CLAP models from scratch on the Million Song Dataset with LP-MusicCaps-MSD captions. We introduce negation through text augmentation and a dissimilarity-based contrastive loss, designed to explicitly separate original and negated captions in the joint embedding space. To evaluate progress, we propose two protocols that frame negation modeling as retrieval and binary classification tasks. Experiments demonstrate that both methods, individually and combined, improve negation handling while largely preserving retrieval performance. |
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| spellingShingle | Towards Effective Negation Modeling in Joint Audio-Text Models for Music Vasilakis, Yannis Bittner, Rachel Pauwels, Johan Sound Information Retrieval Machine Learning Joint audio-text models are widely used for music retrieval, yet they struggle with semantic phenomena such as negation. Negation is fundamental for distinguishing the absence (or presence) of musical elements (e.g., "with vocals" vs. "without vocals"), but current systems fail to represent this reliably. In this work, we investigate and mitigate this limitation by training CLAP models from scratch on the Million Song Dataset with LP-MusicCaps-MSD captions. We introduce negation through text augmentation and a dissimilarity-based contrastive loss, designed to explicitly separate original and negated captions in the joint embedding space. To evaluate progress, we propose two protocols that frame negation modeling as retrieval and binary classification tasks. Experiments demonstrate that both methods, individually and combined, improve negation handling while largely preserving retrieval performance. |
| title | Towards Effective Negation Modeling in Joint Audio-Text Models for Music |
| topic | Sound Information Retrieval Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13931 |