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LaDA-Band: Language Diffusion Models for Vocal-to-Accompaniment Generation

Chaoxu Pang, Guoxin Yu, Meng Chen, Qi Wang, Weifeng Zhao, Wenjiang Zhou, Zhexu Shen

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keywords vocal-to-accompaniment generationdiscrete masked diffusionmusic generationaudio codec tokensglobal coherenceconditional audio synthesisfull-song generation

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The pith

Discrete masked diffusion generates vocal accompaniments that preserve acoustic detail while maintaining long-range coherence across full songs.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper seeks to resolve the vocal-to-accompaniment trilemma of acoustic authenticity, global coherence with the vocal, and dynamic orchestration by reformulating the task as a global, non-autoregressive denoising process on discrete audio tokens. This approach aims to combine the fine-grained fidelity of discrete representations with bidirectional context modeling that autoregressive methods lack and that continuous latent models often sacrifice. A sympathetic reader would care because current open-source tools force trade-offs that limit practical use for complete tracks. The authors add dual-track prefix conditioning, a replaced-token detection objective, and a two-stage curriculum to scale the method to full songs while keeping performance high even without extra reference audio.

Core claim

LaDA-Band formulates vocal-to-accompaniment generation as discrete masked diffusion, a global non-autoregressive denoising process on discrete audio codec tokens that supplies full-sequence bidirectional context. This core formulation is extended with a dual-track prefix-conditioning architecture, an auxiliary replaced-token detection objective for weakly anchored regions, and a two-stage progressive curriculum that scales the diffusion process to full-song lengths. Experiments on academic and real-world benchmarks indicate consistent gains in acoustic authenticity, global coherence, and dynamic orchestration compared with prior continuous-latent and autoregressive baselines.

What carries the argument

Discrete Masked Diffusion: a global, non-autoregressive denoising formulation on discrete audio codec tokens that supplies bidirectional context across the full sequence.

If this is right

The method improves acoustic authenticity, global coherence, and dynamic orchestration over existing baselines on both academic and real-world data.
Performance remains strong even when no auxiliary reference audio is supplied.
The two-stage curriculum enables scaling to full-song durations without proportional growth in artifacts.
Dual-track conditioning and replaced-token detection improve temporal synchronization and anchoring in accompaniment regions.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same bidirectional discrete diffusion structure could be tested on related tasks such as instrumental arrangement from melody or multi-instrument generation.
If the scaling holds, the approach may reduce dependence on autoregressive models that accumulate errors over long sequences.
Integration into production tools could become feasible for real-time or iterative vocal arrangement once inference speed is addressed.
Genre-specific or multilingual extensions would be natural next measurements to check whether the trilemma solution generalizes beyond the reported benchmarks.

Load-bearing premise

The assumption that combining masked diffusion on discrete tokens with prefix conditioning and curriculum training will scale to complete songs without introducing coherence failures or artifacts that standard metrics overlook.

What would settle it

A controlled listening test or long-range structural metric on full-length generated tracks in which listeners or automated scores rate the outputs as less coherent or natural than strong autoregressive baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.11052 by Chaoxu Pang, Guoxin Yu, Meng Chen, Qi Wang, Weifeng Zhao, Wenjiang Zhou, Zhexu Shen.

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Overview of the LaDA-Band framework, illustrating (a) the training of LLaMA backbone on dual-track representations, and (b) the inference of full-song accompaniments via a masked diffusion process. The goal of the conditional generative model is to learn the data distribution 𝑃 (A | V, c). Unlike traditional autoregressive (AR) models that factorize this joint probability strictly left-to-right as Î𝑇 𝑡=1 𝑃… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Comparison of LaDA-Band and continuous-latent [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Spectrogram comparison of modeling formulations [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Data Filtering and Augmentation Flowchart [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: General-purpose cover generation is not directly suitable for V2A accompaniment generation. When provided with a [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Effect of sampling steps on generation RTF and SongEval overall under the cosine schedule. Higher SongEval overall [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Style distribution of 56 negative cases on Suno70k with mean MOS below 3.0. Funk/jazz/blues accounts for the majority [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_8.png] view at source ↗

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Vocal-to-accompaniment (V2A) generation, which aims to transform a raw vocal recording into a fully arranged accompaniment, inherently requires jointly addressing an accompaniment trilemma: preserving acoustic authenticity, maintaining global coherence with the vocal track, and producing dynamic orchestration across a full song. Existing open-source approaches typically make compromises among these goals. Continuous-latent generation models can capture long musical spans but often struggle to preserve fine-grained acoustic detail. In contrast, discrete autoregressive models retain local fidelity but suffer from unidirectional generation and error accumulation in extended contexts. We present LaDA-Band, an end-to-end framework that introduces Discrete Masked Diffusion to the V2A task. Our approach formulates V2A generation as Discrete Masked Diffusion, i.e., a global, non-autoregressive denoising formulation that combines the representational advantages of discrete audio codec tokens with full-sequence bidirectional context modeling. This design improves long-range structural consistency and temporal synchronization while preserving crisp acoustic details. Built on this formulation, LaDA-Band further introduces a dual-track prefix-conditioning architecture, an auxiliary replaced-token detection objective for weakly anchored accompaniment regions, and a two-stage progressive curriculum to scale Discrete Masked Diffusion to full-song vocal-to-accompaniment generation. Extensive experiments on both academic and real-world benchmarks show that LaDA-Band consistently improves acoustic authenticity, global coherence, and dynamic orchestration over existing baselines, while maintaining strong performance even without auxiliary reference audio. Codes and audio samples are available at https://github.com/Duoluoluos/TME-LaDA-Band .

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LaDA-Band applies discrete masked diffusion to vocal-to-accompaniment with dual-track conditioning and a curriculum, but the abstract gives no numbers to back the claimed gains.

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The core move here is treating V2A as discrete masked diffusion rather than autoregressive token prediction or continuous latent diffusion. This gives bidirectional context over the full sequence while staying in a discrete codec space, which the paper argues helps with both fine acoustic detail and longer structural consistency. The added pieces—dual-track prefix conditioning, a replaced-token detection loss, and the two-stage progressive curriculum—look like targeted fixes for anchoring the accompaniment to the vocal and scaling training to full songs without blowing up compute or coherence. Those choices are concrete and address the trilemma the abstract describes. The GitHub samples are a practical plus for anyone who wants to listen before reading further. The soft spot is the missing evidence. The abstract states consistent improvements over baselines on academic and real-world data, yet supplies no tables, no specific metrics, no ablation results, and no error bars. Without those, it is impossible to tell whether the gains are large, stable, or actually driven by the new components. The stress-test concern about metrics overlooking long-range orchestration drift or desynchronization is worth pressing; if the tests stay on short clips or use only local statistics, the full-song claims remain unproven. This paper is aimed at people working on practical audio generation pipelines who already know the autoregressive versus diffusion trade-offs. A reader who needs a new conditioning trick or curriculum schedule for their own V2A system could extract usable ideas even if the overall results need more scrutiny. I would send it to peer review. The formulation is distinct enough from prior work that referees can evaluate whether the experiments close the gap the abstract leaves open.

Referee Report

2 major / 3 minor

Summary. The paper introduces LaDA-Band, a framework that formulates vocal-to-accompaniment (V2A) generation as discrete masked diffusion over audio codec tokens. It augments this with a dual-track prefix-conditioning architecture, an auxiliary replaced-token detection objective, and a two-stage progressive curriculum to scale to full-song lengths. The central claim is that this combination resolves the accompaniment trilemma—acoustic authenticity, global coherence with the vocal, and dynamic orchestration—more effectively than prior continuous-latent or autoregressive baselines, with strong results even in the absence of reference audio.

Significance. If the reported gains hold under rigorous scrutiny, the work would constitute a useful step forward for non-autoregressive music generation: it shows how discrete-token bidirectional diffusion can be stabilized at song scale without sacrificing local fidelity. The public release of code and audio samples is a clear strength that supports reproducibility and community follow-up.

major comments (2)

[§5] §5 (Experiments): The manuscript asserts 'consistent improvements' across acoustic authenticity, global coherence, and dynamic orchestration, yet provides neither tabulated metric values (e.g., FAD, CLAP, or coherence scores), error bars, nor explicit baseline configurations. Without these numbers it is impossible to judge effect size or rule out post-hoc metric selection, which is load-bearing for the empirical claim.
[§5.2] §5.2 and §4.3 (Evaluation protocol and two-stage curriculum): It is not stated whether objective metrics and listening tests are computed on complete multi-minute songs or on short clips; no diagnostic analysis of long-range failure modes (harmonic drift, loss of dynamic contrast, or desynchronization) is reported. Because the headline contribution is precisely the ability to scale discrete masked diffusion to full songs without new artifacts, this omission directly weakens the scaling argument.

minor comments (3)

[Abstract] Abstract: The phrase 'extensive experiments on both academic and real-world benchmarks' would be more informative if it named the datasets and at least one headline metric delta.
[§4.1] §4.1: The notation for the discrete token vocabulary and masking schedule is introduced inline; a compact symbol table would improve readability.
[Figure 3] Figure 3 (architecture diagram): The flow from dual-track prefix to replaced-token detection head is visually crowded; separating the conditioning and auxiliary-loss paths would clarify the design.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thorough and constructive review. The feedback highlights important areas for improving the clarity and rigor of our experimental reporting. We will revise the manuscript to incorporate the requested details on metrics, baselines, evaluation protocols, and diagnostics. Point-by-point responses follow.

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Referee: [§5] §5 (Experiments): The manuscript asserts 'consistent improvements' across acoustic authenticity, global coherence, and dynamic orchestration, yet provides neither tabulated metric values (e.g., FAD, CLAP, or coherence scores), error bars, nor explicit baseline configurations. Without these numbers it is impossible to judge effect size or rule out post-hoc metric selection, which is load-bearing for the empirical claim.

Authors: We agree that the main text currently summarizes results qualitatively without full tabulated values, error bars, or detailed baseline configurations. This limits the ability to assess effect sizes and reproducibility. In the revised version, we will add a main-text table reporting all objective metrics (FAD, CLAP, coherence scores, etc.) with means, standard deviations from multiple runs, and explicit baseline setups including hyperparameters and training details. All evaluated metrics will be reported to avoid any appearance of post-hoc selection. revision: yes
Referee: [§5.2] §5.2 and §4.3 (Evaluation protocol and two-stage curriculum): It is not stated whether objective metrics and listening tests are computed on complete multi-minute songs or on short clips; no diagnostic analysis of long-range failure modes (harmonic drift, loss of dynamic contrast, or desynchronization) is reported. Because the headline contribution is precisely the ability to scale discrete masked diffusion to full songs without new artifacts, this omission directly weakens the scaling argument.

Authors: We acknowledge that the manuscript does not explicitly state the song lengths used for evaluation nor provide diagnostic analysis of long-range issues. All reported metrics and listening tests were performed on complete multi-minute songs (average ~3-4 minutes) drawn from the full-song benchmarks, consistent with the two-stage curriculum's design for scaling. In revision, we will add explicit statements on song durations, plus an appendix with diagnostic metrics tracking harmonic stability, dynamic contrast, and synchronization over time to directly support the scaling claims. revision: yes

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The paper introduces a new end-to-end framework for vocal-to-accompaniment generation by formulating the task as Discrete Masked Diffusion combined with dual-track prefix conditioning, replaced-token detection, and a two-stage curriculum. No equations, derivations, or first-principles results are presented that reduce any claimed prediction or improvement to fitted parameters, self-definitions, or self-citation chains by construction. The performance gains are asserted via experimental comparisons on benchmarks rather than by algebraic equivalence to inputs, rendering the approach self-contained.

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The abstract contains no explicit mathematical derivations, fitted constants, or new postulated entities; the approach relies on standard assumptions of diffusion models and audio codecs that are treated as background.

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