Music Style Transfer with Time-Varying Inversion of Diffusion Models
Authors: name: Sifei Li, name: Yuxin Zhang, name: Fan Tang, name: Chongyang Ma, name: Weiming dong, name: Changsheng Xu

With the development of diffusion models, text-guided image style transfer
has demonstrated high-quality controllable synthesis results. However, the
utilization of text for diverse music style transfer poses significant
challenges, primarily due to the limited availability of matched audio-text
datasets. Music, being an abstract and complex art form, exhibits variations
and intricacies even within the same genre, thereby making accurate textual
descriptions challenging. This paper presents a music style transfer approach
that effectively captures musical attributes using minimal data. We introduce a
novel time-varying textual inversion module to precisely capture
mel-spectrogram features at different levels. During inference, we propose a
bias-reduced stylization technique to obtain stable results. Experimental
results demonstrate that our method can transfer the style of specific
instruments, as well as incorporate natural sounds to compose melodies. Samples
and source code are available at https://lsfhuihuiff.github.io/MusicTI/.