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SonicWeave: Chunk-Routed Mixture-of-Experts for Unified Audio Scene Generation

arXiv 2608.09571 ↗First posted 10 Aug 2026cs.SDcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

Text-conditioned general audio generation is moving beyond isolated speech, music, and sound-effect synthesis toward a single model that can compose them into controllable, coherent audio scenes. This unified setting is particularly challenging: heterogeneous components impose conflicting structural requirements on a shared backbone, while a complex mixed scene may contain locally distinct or overlapping content that demands fine-grained adaptation within the same clip. Existing audio mixture-of-experts (MoEs) mainly route at the domain level, while token-wise routing overlooks the local continuity inherent to acoustic signals. We propose SonicWeave, a flow-matching model for unified audio scene generation. At its core is a chunk-routed MoE with a conflict-gated prior-evidence routing mechanism (CPE-MoE). CPE-MoE routes contiguous acoustic chunks by combining a global prior that encodes the structured text condition and diffusion phase with local evidence from the evolving acoustic state. A learned conflict gate favors the prior when local states are unreliable, while allowing local evidence to influence routing when a region departs from the global scene context. SonicWeave supports speech, music, sound effects, singing, and their fine-grained mixtures with a single set of weights. Across TTS, TTA, and TTM benchmarks, SonicWeave consistently improves over controlled Dense and Base-MoE baselines. Complex-scene evaluation further demonstrates improved compositional quality, while routing analyses reveal content-dependent expert specialization across diffusion phases. These results suggest that temporally coherent, prior-evidence routing is an effective conditional-computation strategy for unified audio generation. Project page: https://caiyunrui.github.io/SonicWeave.

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