YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning
The song YuE2, ranked highest among 15 evaluated settings on WildSongBench, showcases a remarkable score of 6.9632 on SongBench. This best-of-8 selection was generated by comparing musicality, prompt control, and lyric accuracy across eight different generations. The evaluation, conducted on September 5, 2026, considers a variety of metrics including tagging, key, genre, and emotion recognition.
The SongBench and SongEval scores are combined to provide a comprehensive assessment of song quality. The AudioBox production quality area, represented by a bubble in Figure 1, illustrates the overall performance of the song. Notably, MERT2-30s and MERT2-FS models have set new state-of-the-art (SOTA) records on 14 out of the 15 MARBLE metrics.
These models, both with 632M parameters, utilize different training contexts - MERT2-30s with a 30-second context and MERT2-FS with a 300-second context - to achieve these impressive results. SheetSage2, on the other hand, has achieved SOTA on 10 out of 13 benchmark metrics, demonstrating its prowess in beat, downbeat, key, chord, structure, and melody transcription.
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