DITTO:
Diffusion Inference-Time T-Optimization
for Music Generation

Zachary Novack^1,2* Julian McAuley¹ Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick¹ Nicholas J. Bryan²

¹University of California, San Diego
²Adobe Research
^*Work done during an internship at Adobe Research

Abstract

We propose Diffusion Inference-Time T-Optimization (DITTO), a general-purpose frame-work for controlling pre-trained diffusion models at inference-time via optimizing initial noise latents. Our method can be used to optimize through any differentiable feature matching loss to achieve a target (stylized) output and leverages gradient checkpointing for efficient memory use. We demonstrate a surprisingly wide-range of applications for music generation including inpainting, outpainting, and looping as well as intensity, melody, and musical structure control – all without ever fine-tuning the underlying model. When we compare our approach against related training, guidance, and optimization-based methods, we find DITTO achieves state-of-the-art performance on nearly all tasks and is over 2x faster than related optimization-based methods while using less memory, opening the door for high-quality, flexible, training-free control of diffusion models.

Bibtex

          
          @article{Novack2024Ditto,
              title={DITTO: Diffusion Inference-Time T-Optimization for Music Generation}, 
              author={Novack, Zachary and McAuley, Julian and Berg-Kirkpatrick, Taylor and Bryan, Nicholas J.},
              year={2024},
              eprint={2401.12179},
              archivePrefix={arXiv},
              primaryClass={cs.SD}
          }

Examples (Cherrypicked)

Below, we display editing and control results for a wide range of music creation tasks, including outpainting, inpainting, looping, intensity, melody, and musical structure control. Note that this webpage is best viewed with Chrome. The examples here are mildly cherry-picked to show the best results. For random (non-cherry-picked) examples, please see the section below.

For the outpainting, inpainting, and looping examples, we show the reference audio and the generated audio with an overlap region of 1 second. For intensity and musical structure control, we show the generated audio, with the target and generated control feature displayed on the right. For melody control, we show the original melody, generated audio, and the target and generated melody features.

Outpainting

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Inpainting

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Looping

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Intensity Control

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Musical Structure Control

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Melody Control

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Examples (Random)

Below, we display editing and control results for a wide range of music creation tasks, including outpainting, inpainting, looping, intensity, melody, and musical structure control. Note that this webpage is best viewed with Chrome. The examples here randomly generated.

For the outpainting, inpainting, and looping examples, we show the reference audio and the generated audio with an overlap region of 1 second. For intensity and musical structure control, we show the generated audio, with the target and generated control feature displayed on the right. For melody control, we show the original melody, generated audio, and the target and generated melody features.

Outpainting

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Inpainting

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Looping

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Intensity Control

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Feature Plots

Musical Structure Control

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Melody Control

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Acknowledgements

Thank you to Ge Zhu, Juan-Pablo Caceres, Zhiyao Duan, and Nicholas J. Bryan for sharing their soon-to-be published high-fidelity vocoder work used for the demo video (a full citation will be updated soon).