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Minhui Lu

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arXiv2026

Simulation-Based Plate-Reverb Parameter Estimation from a Single Impulse Response

We present a simulation-trained, non-iterative estimator for Task A of the 1st DAFx Parameter Estimation Challenge. Each unnormalized plate-reverb impulse response is summarized by amplitude, spectral, and decay descriptors, and an ensemble of tree regressors estimates the six target parameters in one pass. Across two independent synthetic validation sets, the normalized models outperform the training-set mean and an earlier raw-regression baseline. On a shared set, the final ensemble also outperforms a single run of the official default PSO at substantially lower inference cost. Since the official labels are hidden, parameter accuracy is measured on simulator-matched data, and the released responses support only audio-side consistency checks. The estimator returns point estimates without uncertainty.

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arXiv2026

Band-Count Dense Modal Estimation with Fixed-Frequency Differentiable Resonator Refinement

Task B of the 1st DAFx Parameter Estimation Challenge requires estimating the frequencies, decay rates, gains, and number of modes in a dense plate-reverb impulse response. Weak and overlapping modes make sparse peak detection prone to severe undercounting. We train an ExtraTrees regressor on simulator-generated data to predict mode counts in four frequency bands. These counts define dense frequency grids, after which a differentiable all-pole resonator model refines decay and gain while keeping frequency fixed. On two separate synthetic validation sets, the system reduces a local challenge-style error by about 66% relative to the official default peak-picking baseline. The improvement is mainly associated with lower mode-count mismatch, while decay and gain remain the largest error sources. These findings support separating modal-density estimation from continuous parameter fitting.

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arXiv2026

Learning Vocal-Tract Area and Radiation with a Physics-Informed Webster Model

We present a physics-informed voiced backend renderer for singing-voice synthesis. Given synthetic single-channel audio and a fund-amental--frequency trajectory, we train a time-domain Webster model as a physics-informed neural network to estimate an interpretable vocal-tract area function and an open-end radiation coefficient. Training enforces partial differential equation and boundary consistency; a lightweight DDSP path is used only to stabilize learning, while inference is purely physics-based. On sustained vowels (/a/, /i/, /u/), parameters rendered by an independent finite-difference time-domain Webster solver reproduce spectral envelopes competitively with a compact DDSP baseline and remain stable under changes in discretization, moderate source variations, and about ten percent pitch shifts. The in-graph waveform remains breathier than the reference, motivating periodicity-aware objectives and explicit glottal priors in future work.

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