CMI-RewardBench: Evaluating Music Reward Models with Compositional Multimodal Instruction

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Autores principales: Ma, Yinghao, Xia, Haiwen, Gao, Hewei, Chen, Weixiong, Ye, Yuxin, Yang, Yuchen, Chang, Sungkyun, Ding, Mingshuo, Li, Yizhi, Yuan, Ruibin, Dixon, Simon, Benetos, Emmanouil
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author Ma, Yinghao
Xia, Haiwen
Gao, Hewei
Chen, Weixiong
Ye, Yuxin
Yang, Yuchen
Chang, Sungkyun
Ding, Mingshuo
Li, Yizhi
Yuan, Ruibin
Dixon, Simon
Benetos, Emmanouil
author_facet Ma, Yinghao
Xia, Haiwen
Gao, Hewei
Chen, Weixiong
Ye, Yuxin
Yang, Yuchen
Chang, Sungkyun
Ding, Mingshuo
Li, Yizhi
Yuan, Ruibin
Dixon, Simon
Benetos, Emmanouil
contents While music generation models have evolved to handle complex multimodal inputs mixing text, lyrics, and reference audio, evaluation mechanisms have lagged behind. In this paper, we bridge this critical gap by establishing a comprehensive ecosystem for music reward modeling under Compositional Multimodal Instruction (CMI), where the generated music may be conditioned on text descriptions, lyrics, and audio prompts. We first introduce CMI-Pref-Pseudo, a large-scale preference dataset comprising 110k pseudo-labeled samples, and CMI-Pref, a high-quality, human-annotated corpus tailored for fine-grained alignment tasks. To unify the evaluation landscape, we propose CMI-RewardBench, a unified benchmark that evaluates music reward models on heterogeneous samples across musicality, text-music alignment, and compositional instruction alignment. Leveraging these resources, we develop CMI reward models (CMI-RMs), a parameter-efficient reward model family capable of processing heterogeneous inputs. We evaluate their correlation with human judgments scores on musicality and alignment on CMI-Pref along with previous datasets. Further experiments demonstrate that CMI-RM not only correlates strongly with human judgments, but also enables effective inference-time scaling via top-k filtering. The necessary training data, benchmarks, and reward models are publicly available.
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spellingShingle CMI-RewardBench: Evaluating Music Reward Models with Compositional Multimodal Instruction
Ma, Yinghao
Xia, Haiwen
Gao, Hewei
Chen, Weixiong
Ye, Yuxin
Yang, Yuchen
Chang, Sungkyun
Ding, Mingshuo
Li, Yizhi
Yuan, Ruibin
Dixon, Simon
Benetos, Emmanouil
Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Multimedia
Audio and Speech Processing
While music generation models have evolved to handle complex multimodal inputs mixing text, lyrics, and reference audio, evaluation mechanisms have lagged behind. In this paper, we bridge this critical gap by establishing a comprehensive ecosystem for music reward modeling under Compositional Multimodal Instruction (CMI), where the generated music may be conditioned on text descriptions, lyrics, and audio prompts. We first introduce CMI-Pref-Pseudo, a large-scale preference dataset comprising 110k pseudo-labeled samples, and CMI-Pref, a high-quality, human-annotated corpus tailored for fine-grained alignment tasks. To unify the evaluation landscape, we propose CMI-RewardBench, a unified benchmark that evaluates music reward models on heterogeneous samples across musicality, text-music alignment, and compositional instruction alignment. Leveraging these resources, we develop CMI reward models (CMI-RMs), a parameter-efficient reward model family capable of processing heterogeneous inputs. We evaluate their correlation with human judgments scores on musicality and alignment on CMI-Pref along with previous datasets. Further experiments demonstrate that CMI-RM not only correlates strongly with human judgments, but also enables effective inference-time scaling via top-k filtering. The necessary training data, benchmarks, and reward models are publicly available.
title CMI-RewardBench: Evaluating Music Reward Models with Compositional Multimodal Instruction
topic Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Multimedia
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00610