MAGE: Modality-Agnostic Music Generation and Target-Source Extraction

Abstract

Recent advances in multimodal audio generation have enabled music synthesis from text, visual cues, and other high-level conditions. However, most systems are designed for a single operating mode: either generating music without a reference mixture or extracting a target source from an existing mixture. This fixed-task design limits their use when different combinations of text, visual, and mixture inputs are available. To address this gap, we propose MAGE, a modality-agnostic framework for conditional music generation and mixture-grounded target-source extraction within a shared continuous latent space. Our approach introduces three key components. First, a Controlled Multimodal FluxFormer models the conditional flow from noise to a target audio latent, enabling the same backbone to operate with or without a mixture condition. Second, Audio-Visual Nexus Alignment maps frame-level visual features onto the audio latent sequence, allowing visual evidence to condition the generation process at the audio-token level. Third, a cross-gated modulation mechanism uses the aligned visual representation to regulate intermediate audio features, while text provides separate semantic guidance. We further train MAGE with dynamic modality masking, exposing the same model to text-only, visual-only, joint text-visual, mixture-conditioned, and unconditional configurations. Experiments on the MUSIC benchmark evaluate MAGE under separate protocols for mixture-free generation and mixture-grounded target-source extraction. The results show that MAGE provides a shared conditioning interface across both settings, and that the proposed alignment and gating components improve interference suppression in the extraction task.