用自动降维方法让音乐合成算法更自由探索声音空间。
Exploring Definitions of Quality and Diversity in Sonic Measurement Spaces
- 用PCA和自编码器自动构建声音特征空间,替代人工设计
- 自动方法生成的声音多样性显著高于传统手写特征
- 动态重训练保持进化压力,适合无人干预的音色探索
数字声音合成可探索包含数百万配置的广阔参数空间。质量多样性(QD)进化算法有望挖掘此潜力,但其成效依赖于合适的声音特征表示。现有方法多采用手工设计的描述符或有监督分类器,可能引入意外探索偏差,并限制发现局限于熟悉的声音区域。本文研究了无监督降维方法,用于在QD搜索过程中自动定义并动态重构声音行为空间。我们使用主成分分析(PCA)和自编码器将高维音频特征投影到结构化网格上,用于MAP-Elites,并通过定期重新训练模型实现动态重构。在两个实验场景中的对比显示,自动方法在多样性上显著优于手工设计的行为空间,且避免了专家施加的偏见。动态行为空间重构维持了进化压力,防止停滞,其中PCA在降维技术中表现最优。这些结果为无需人工干预或有监督训练约束的自动化声音发现系统提供了支持。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Digital sound synthesis presents the opportunity to explore vast parameter spaces containing millions of configurations. Quality diversity (QD) evolutionary algorithms offer a promising approach to harness this potential, yet their success hinges on appropriate sonic feature representations. Existing QD methods predominantly employ handcrafted descriptors or supervised classifiers, potentially introducing unintended exploration biases and constraining discovery to familiar sonic regions. This work investigates unsupervised dimensionality reduction methods for automatically defining and dynamically reconfiguring sonic behaviour spaces during QD search. We apply Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and autoencoders to project high-dimensional audio features onto structured grids for MAP-Elites, implementing dynamic reconfiguration through model retraining at regular intervals. Comparison across two experimental scenarios shows that automatic approaches achieve significantly greater diversity than handcrafted behaviour spaces while avoiding expert-imposed biases. Dynamic behaviour-space reconfiguration maintains evolutionary pressure and prevents stagnation, with PCA proving most effective among the dimensionality reduction techniques. These results contribute to automated sonic discovery systems capable of exploring vast parameter spaces without manual intervention or supervised training constraints.
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