Kangdi Wang
Publications

Research in sound.

Perceptual representations, controllable music generation, and multimodal audio — with papers, code, and listening demos.

2026
2026.09 · arXiv · Technical Report Agentic Audio Understanding
Contributor Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash

Qwen3.8-Omni: Towards Native Omni-Modal Agents

Contributed to Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash training, focusing on agentic audio understanding and REAPER-based tasks for automatic arrangement, mixing, and podcast editing.

My contribution. Contributor during my Qwen Omni internship; worked on model training for agentic audio understanding and REAPER-based editing tasks, including automatic arrangement, mixing, and podcast editing.

2026.08 · arXiv Frequency-Aware Representation
First Author ear-VAE2

Fourier is Frontier: Frequency-Aware Autoencoding for High-Fidelity Music Reconstruction

A complex-spectral autoencoder that directly models frequency, phase, and stereo structure to address lost high frequencies and collapsed stereo images.

My contribution. First-author work on frequency-aware autoencoding and perceptually guided stereo refinement.

Research outcome. On the 546-track Song Describer Dataset, the model reports the best point estimates on five of seven reconstruction metrics in the paper’s comparison.

2026.08 · ACM MM 2026 Multimodal Audio
Co-First Author CineDub

CineDub: Scaling End-to-End Video Dubbing to Multi-Speaker Dialogues with Coherent Sound Effects

An end-to-end video-dubbing model that generates multi-speaker dialogue and coherent sound effects from uncropped video.

My contribution. Co-first author of the work on end-to-end multi-speaker video dubbing.

Research outcome. Supports multi-speaker dialogue dubbing and joint speech–audio generation, with listening demos and two evaluation benchmarks.

2026.07 · arXiv · Technical Report Music Generation
Core Contributor Qwen-Music

Qwen-Music Technical Report

Music generation from text and lyrics, plus cover-song generation. My work focuses on the audio decoder, listening evaluation, and quality-oriented data curation.

My contribution. Core contributor to decoder development and audio-quality evaluation; second-listed author of the technical report.

Research outcome. The technical report presents text-to-music and cover-song generation with generative stereo rendering.

2025
2025.11 · ACM MM 2026 Music Tokenization
Co-author DuoTok

DuoTok: Source-Aware Dual-Track Music Tokenization for Vocal-Accompaniment Generation

Separate vocal and accompaniment token streams preserve source structure for controllable music generation.

My contribution. Co-author; contributed the core research idea for source-aware music tokenization.

Research outcome. Enables fine-grained structural control and source-separated generation in large-scale autoregressive music systems.

2025.09 · INTERSPEECH 2026 Perceptual Audio Representation
First Author εar-VAE

Back to Ear: Perceptually Driven High Fidelity Music Reconstruction

Reconstructing music with perceptual weighting, phase supervision, and stereo-aware losses to preserve high-frequency detail and spatial cues.

My contribution. First-author work on perceptually grounded objectives for music reconstruction.

Research outcome. Evaluated at 44.1 kHz against open-source audio autoencoders, with improvements in spectral reconstruction and stereo characteristics.

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