arXiv:2603.09187cs.SDcs.LG2026-03

复现音乐分离模型时发现代码缺失导致结果难复现,研究者通过实验优化出性能更好的版本。

The Costs of Reproducibility in Music Separation Research: a Replication of Band-Split RNN

  • 复现原版带分割循环网络模型,探索训练细节对结果的影响。
  • 未能复现原文结果,但通过改进设计提升了模型性能。
  • 公开代码与预训练模型,倡导音乐分离领域的可复现研究。

音乐源分离旨在从混音歌曲中分离出各个乐器音轨。尽管近年来取得显著进展,但复杂模型架构和训练流程加剧了可复现性问题。带分割循环神经网络(BSRNN)在公开数据集上表现接近最先进水平,且训练资源需求合理,具有潜力。然而其完整代码未公开,难以复现。本文通过大量实验尽可能复现原论文的BSRNN模型,反思可复现性问题。贡献包括:第一,揭示模型设计与训练流程的关键因素,提出优化后的BSRNN,性能显著优于原版;第二,从方法论与实践角度讨论可复现性挑战,强调完整开源可节省大量时间和精力;第三,公开代码与预训练模型,推动可复现研究。希望本工作能提升音乐分离领域对可复现性的重视,促进更透明、可持续的研究实践。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Music source separation is the task of isolating the instrumental tracks from a music song. Despite its spectacular recent progress, the trend towards more complex architectures and training protocols exacerbates reproducibility issues. The band-split recurrent neural networks (BSRNN) model is promising in this regard, since it yields close to state-of-the-art results on public datasets, and requires reasonable resources for training. Unfortunately, it is not straightforward to reproduce since its full code is not available. In this paper, we attempt to replicate BSRNN as closely as possible to the original paper through extensive experiments, which allows us to conduct a critical reflection on this reproducibility issue. Our contributions are three-fold. First, this study yields several insights on the model design and training pipeline, which sheds light on potential future improvements. In particular, since we were unsuccessful in reproducing the original results, we explore additional variants that ultimately yield an optimized BSRNN model, whose performance largely improves that of the original. Second, we discuss reproducibility issues from both methodological and practical perspectives. We notably underline how substantial time and energy costs could have been saved upon availability of the full pipeline. Third, our code and pre-trained models are released publicly to foster reproducible research. We hope that this study will contribute to spread awareness on the importance of reproducible research in the music separation community, and help promoting more transparent and sustainable practices.

音乐分离可复现性深度学习

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