Scholar
Yixiao Zhang
Google Scholar ID: ZesLsloAAAAJ
ByteDance Seed; C4DM
Citations & Impact
Citations
544
H-index
13
i10-index
13
Publications
20
Co-authors
13
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Paper 'Temporal Adaptation of Pre-trained Foundation Models for Music Structure Analysis' accepted to WASPAA 2025
- Paper 'The Interpretation Gap in Text-to-Music Generation Models' accepted to NLP4MusA workshop at ISMIR 2024 (co-first author)
- Paper 'Instruct-MusicGen: Unlocking Text-to-Music Editing for Music Language Models via Instruction Tuning' accepted to ISMIR 2025
- Paper 'MusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Models' accepted to IJCAI 2024 (AI, Arts & Creativity Track), covered by MarkTechPost
- Preprint 'Loop Copilot: Conducting AI Ensembles for Music Generation and Iterative Editing' published on arXiv in 2023
- Paper 'Interpreting Song Lyrics with an Audio-Informed Pre-trained Language Model' accepted to ISMIR 2022
- Awarded Ph.D. in Nov 2024 after successful viva
- Co-organizing MIREX 2024 challenge, a satellite event at ISMIR 2024
- Contributed to the development of the ISMIR website and maintains MIR labs list and datasets
Research Experience
- Research Scientist, Seed Music Team, ByteDance (Oct 2024–present)
- Intern, Harmonai group, Stability.ai (May–Oct 2024)
- Intern, Music Foundation Team, Sony Research (Oct 2023–Apr 2024)
- Intern, Yamaha Corporation (Jun–Sep 2023)
- Research Assistant, Music X Lab, NYU Shanghai (2019–2020), supervised by Dr. Gus Xia
