RFM-Editing: Rectified Flow Matching for Text-Guided Audio Editing

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Authors: Liting Gao, Yi Lin Yuan, Yaru Chen, Yuelan Cheng, Zhenbo Li, Juan Wen, Shubin Zhang, Wenwu Wang
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Abstract

Diffusion models have shown remarkable progress in text-to-audio generation. However, text-guided audio editing remains in its early stages. This task focuses on modifying the target content within an audio signal while preserving the rest, thus demanding precise localization and faithful editing according to the text prompt. Existing training-based and zero-shot methods that rely on full-caption or costly optimization often struggle with complex editing or lack practicality. In this work, we propose a novel end-to-end efficient rectified flow matching-based diffusion framework for audio editing, and construct a dataset featuring overlapping multi-event audio to support training and benchmarking in complex scenarios. Experiments show that our model achieves faithful semantic alignment without requiring auxiliary captions or masks, while maintaining competitive editing quality across metrics.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Music and Audio Processing Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis Music Technology and Sound Studies

Publication details

Journal / source
ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Publisher
IEEE
Pages
15467–15471
Publication date
21 April 2026
Language
EN