Melody-Lyrics Matching with Contrastive Alignment Loss

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This is the companion page for the paper: “Melody-Lyrics Matching with Contrastive Alignment Loss”, currently under review.

We provide more examples to supplement the example (Fig. 7) in the paper. Each example includes (1) Playable MIDI notes; (2) Reference (Ref) and top-1 non-perturbed lyrics retrieved by our proposed MLM-CAL (MC), the length-informed (LI) method, and random baseline (Ra) all aligned with the melody in terms of words; (3) the same set of lyrics, but aligned with the melody at the syllable level.

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Citation

If you use our work in your research, please cite our paper:

@article{wang2025melody,
  title={Melody-Lyrics Matching with Contrastive Alignment Loss},
  author={Wang, Changhong and Olvera, Michel and Richard, Ga{\"e}l},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.00123},
  year={2025}
}