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arXiv cs.AIAugust 17, 2026

MusicLayout: Explicit Structural Planning for Controllable Text-to-Music Generation

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arXiv:2608.09035v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-to-music generation has advanced rapidly, but current systems still rely primarily on global text prompts, leaving the structural organization of generated music implicit and difficult to inspect, control, or revise before audio generation. To address this issue, we introduce MusicLayout, an explicit intermediate representation for controlling musical structure in text-to-music generation. MusicLayout describes a musical piece as a t