# Audio Latent Space Cartography

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.02610 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.02610/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 4 of its 5 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 5 Dec 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10752/) (2021)
- [UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimension Reduction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.03426/) (2018)
- [Neural Audio Synthesis of Musical Notes with WaveNet Autoencoders](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.01279/) (2017)
- [TimbreCLIP: Connecting Timbre to Text and Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.11225/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We explore the generation of visualisations of audio latent spaces using an audio-to-image generation pipeline. We believe this can help with the interpretability of audio latent spaces. We demonstrate a variety of results on the NSynth dataset. A web demo is available.