MusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Models

MusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Models

Yixiao Zhang, Yukara Ikemiya, Gus Xia, Naoki Murata, Marco A. Martínez-Ramírez, Wei-Hsiang Liao, Yuki Mitsufuji, Simon Dixon

Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
AI, Arts & Creativity. Pages 7805-7813. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/864

Recent advances in text-to-music generation models have opened new avenues in musical creativity. However, the task of editing these generated music remains a significant challenge. This paper introduces a novel approach to edit music generated by such models, enabling the modification of specific attributes, such as genre, mood, and instrument, while maintaining other aspects unchanged. Our method transforms text editing to the latent space manipulation, and adds an additional constraint to enforce consistency. It seamlessly integrates with existing pretrained text-to-music diffusion models without requiring additional training. Experimental results demonstrate superior performance over both zero-shot and certain supervised baselines in style and timbre transfer evaluations. We also show the practical applicability of our approach in real-world music editing scenarios.
Keywords:
Application domains: Music and sound
Methods and resources: Machine learning, deep learning, neural models, reinforcement learning