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🔉New paper out!

Recent audio codecs typically learn compression and quantization jointly, limiting the choice of quantization layers, which are non-differentiable by definition.

What if we used powerful neural quantizers like Qinco2 and trained them offline?

👉🏻 Read more: arxiv.org/abs/2503.19597
QINCODEC: Neural Audio Compression with Implicit Neural Codebooks
Neural audio codecs, neural networks which compress a waveform into discrete tokens, play a crucial role in the recent development of audio generative models. State-of-the-art codecs rely on the end-t...
arxiv.org
April 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM