Don't CLAP: Are Music-Text Models Bag-of-Words?

arXiv:2609.30540 · cs.SD, cs.CL, eess.AS · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.SD, cs.CL, eess.AS

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Code: https://github.com/barry-mir/music-clap-bow

Terminology

• Accuracy — 16× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Annotation Ambiguity — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Compositional Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Music Attribute-Swap Benchmark — 1× in this paper
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes

Sources

• Music Arena: Live Evaluation for Text-to-Music
• Qwen2-Audio Technical Report

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