Linear RNNs for autoregressive generation of long music samples

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02401v1
• Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:26:54 GMT
• Title: Linear RNNs for autoregressive generation of long music samples
• Authors: Konrad Szewczyk, Daniel Gallo Fernández, James Townsend,
• Abstract summary: We present a model, HarmonicRNN, which attains state of the art log-likelihoods and perceptual metrics on small-scale datasets.
• Score: 2.867517731896504
• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Directly learning to generate audio waveforms in an autoregressive manner is a challenging task, due to the length of the raw sequences and the existence of important structure on many different timescales. Traditional approaches based on recurrent neural networks, as well as causal convolutions and self-attention, have only had limited success on this task. However, recent work has shown that deep state space models, also referred to as linear RNNs, can be highly efficient in this context. In this work, we push the boundaries of linear RNNs applied to raw audio modeling, investigating the effects of different architectural choices and using context-parallelism to enable training on sequences up to one minute (1M tokens) in length. We present a model, HarmonicRNN, which attains state of the art log-likelihoods and perceptual metrics on small-scale datasets.

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