Ramani Duraiswami

Retrieving music using natural language descriptions has improved with contrastive audio–text models such as CLAP, but current systems remain limited to coarse semantic queries. When descriptions specify fine-grained musical attributes such as tempo, key, chord progression, or rhythmic structure,...

Large Audio Language Models have shown impressive performance on single-clip audio language tasks such as automatic speech recognition, captioning, and sound event recognition. Yet, their ability to reason over interleaved multi-audio contexts-where answering a query requires relating information...