Extending Music Annotation Schemas: Zero-Shot Prediction or Few-Shot Adaptation?

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arXiv:2610.06920v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic music annotation is typically tackled under the assumption of a fixed annotation schema. In practice, commercial music catalogs often need to accommodate new musical attributes as needs evolve. Given that expert music annotation is expensive, it is not evident which methodological approach is most effective at accommodating new attributes and backfilling existing tracks; audio-language models promise zero-shot prediction, but at what an