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AnchorSteer: Self-Discovered Concept Injection for Music Editing

other · 2026-06-01

AnchorSteer is a system designed for manageable music editing that alters overarching characteristics while maintaining rhythmic and melodic frameworks. It tackles the issue of semantic-structural intertwining by integrating structural anchoring with autonomously identified semantic steering. This method investigates internal representations to derive interpretable, label-free concept vectors through a self-supervised reconstruction goal, allowing for the separation of attributes without the need for curated datasets. During the editing process, these versatile concept vectors are introduced into diffusion hidden manifolds, with a structural adaptor ensuring consistency. Variants for both unconditioned and conditioned injections strike a balance between robustness and semantic strength. The experiments utilized the ZoM dataset.

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  • AnchorSteer is a framework for controllable music editing.
  • It modifies high-level attributes while preserving rhythmic and melodic structures.
  • It disentangles semantic-structural entanglement.
  • It uses self-supervised reconstruction to extract concept vectors.
  • Concept vectors are injected into diffusion hidden manifolds.
  • A structural adaptor enforces consistency during editing.
  • Variants for unconditioned and conditioned injections are provided.
  • Experiments were performed on the ZoM dataset.

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