Aryan Vijay Bhosale
Author directory2026
VIBE: Video Instruction-aligned Background music gEneration
Aryan Vijay Bhosale | Vaibhavi Lokegaonkar | Vishnu Raj | Gouthaman KV | Sreyan Ghosh | Ramani Duraiswami | Lie Lu | Dinesh Manocha
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Aryan Vijay Bhosale | Vaibhavi Lokegaonkar | Vishnu Raj | Gouthaman KV | Sreyan Ghosh | Ramani Duraiswami | Lie Lu | Dinesh Manocha
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Current video-to-music (V2M) models lack semantic control and fail to penalize instruction violations, largely due to their reliance on reconstruction objectives and the representational bottleneck of static cross-modal conditioning in Diffusion Autoregressive (DAR) architectures. To resolve this, we introduce VIBE, a novel text-and-video-to-music (T+V2M) generation model that leverages: (1) Conditioning Connection, a depth-wise cross-layer conditioning mechanism that dynamically bridges the planning and diffusion refinement heads and (2) a comprehensive reward modeling taxonomy, optimizing for both hard, verifiable constraints (e.g., tempo, key) and soft, subjective qualities (e.g., musicality, multimodal alignment) with a structured 5-stage training curriculum. Upon evaluation using audio-visual alignment, instruction following, and audio quality metrics, along with a subjective human evaluation study, we observe that VIBE demonstrates enhanced controllability and instruction adherence while performing comparably to most evaluated baselines on generation fidelity and multimodal alignment.