Authors

* External authors

Venue

Date

Share

SEARCHING FOR MUSIC MIXING GRAPHS: A PRUNING APPROACH

Sungho Lee*

Marco A. Martínez-Ramírez

Wei-Hsiang Liao

Stefan Uhlich*

Giorgio Fabbro*

Kyogu Lee*

Yuki Mitsufuji

* External authors

DAFx-24

2024

Abstract

Music mixing is compositional -- experts combine multiple audio processors to achieve a cohesive mix from dry source tracks. We propose a method to reverse engineer this process from the input and output audio. First, we create a mixing console that applies all available processors to every chain. Then, after the initial console parameter optimization, we alternate between removing redundant processors and fine-tuning. We achieve this through differentiable implementation of both processors and pruning. Consequently, we find a sparse mixing graph that achieves nearly identical matching quality of the full mixing console. We apply this procedure to dry-mix pairs from various datasets and collect graphs that also can be used to train neural networks for music mixing applications.

Related Publications

Schemato -- An LLM for Netlist-to-Schematic Conversion

MLCAD, 2025
Ryoga Matsuo, Stefan Uhlich*, Arun Venkitaraman, Andrea Bonetti, Chia-Yu Hsieh, Ali Momeni, Lukas Mauch*, Augusto Capone, Eisaku Ohbuchi, Lorenzo Servadei

Machine learning models are advancing circuit design, particularly in analog circuits. They typically generate netlists that lack human interpretability. This is a problem as human designers heavily rely on the interpretability of circuit diagrams or schematics to intuitivel…

TITAN-Guide: Taming Inference-Time Alignment for Guided Text-to-Video Diffusion Models

ICCV, 2025
Christian Simon, Masato Ishii, Akio Hayakawa, Zhi Zhong*, Shusuke Takahashi*, Takashi Shibuya, Yuki Mitsufuji

In the recent development of conditional diffusion models still require heavy supervised fine-tuning for performing control on a category of tasks. Training-free conditioning via guidance with off-the-shelf models is a favorable alternative to avoid further fine-tuning on th…

Transformed Low-rank Adaptation via Tensor Decomposition and Its Applications to Text-to-image Models

ICCV, 2025
Zerui Tao, Yuhta Takida, Naoki Murata, Qibin Zhao*, Yuki Mitsufuji

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) of text-to-image models has become an increasingly popular technique with many applications. Among the various PEFT methods, Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) and its variants have gained significant attention due to their effectiveness, enabl…

JOIN US

Shape the Future of AI with Sony AI

We want to hear from those of you who have a strong desire
to shape the future of AI.