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DiffRhythm: Blazingly Fast and Embarrassingly Simple End-to-End Full-Length Song Generation with Latent Diffusion

arXiv 2503.01183 ↗First posted 3 Mar 2025eess.AScited by 46

On the map: Diffusion models → Audio, speech and music

Abstract (arXiv)

Recent advancements in music generation have garnered significant attention, yet existing approaches face critical limitations. Some current generative models can only synthesize either the vocal track or the accompaniment track. While some models can generate combined vocal and accompaniment, they typically rely on meticulously designed multi-stage cascading architectures and intricate data pipelines, hindering scalability. Additionally, most systems are restricted to generating short musical segments rather than full-length songs. Furthermore, widely used language model-based methods suffer from slow inference speeds. To address these challenges, we propose DiffRhythm, the first latent diffusion-based song generation model capable of synthesizing complete songs with both vocal and accompaniment for durations of up to 4m45s in only ten seconds, maintaining high musicality and intelligibility. Despite its remarkable capabilities, DiffRhythm is designed to be simple and elegant: it eliminates the need for complex data preparation, employs a straightforward model structure, and requires only lyrics and a style prompt during inference. Additionally, its non-autoregressive structure ensures fast inference speeds. This simplicity guarantees the scalability of DiffRhythm. Moreover, we release the complete training code along with the pre-trained model on large-scale data to promote reproducibility and further research.

Key facts. Cited by 46 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Audio, speech and music, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 27 of its 45 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 3 Mar 2025.

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  17. 2026Training-Efficient Text-to-Music Generation with State-Space Modelingcited by 0
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  30. 2026MuseCritic: Learning Multi-Aspect Song Rewards through Natural-Language Aesthetic Critiquescited by 0
  31. 2026CMA-OT: Hierarchical Expert Supervision for Dance-to-Music Generationcited by 0
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  34. 2026Ghost in the Encoder: Decodable Artist Identity Representations in Lyrics-to-Song Generationcited by 0

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