DAC (Descript Audio Codec)

Descript

Structures found in this family (2)

By model (1)

Observations (2)

A single transport vector between clean and degraded latent centroids of neural audio codecs matches large diffusion models on music bandwidth extension

Sparse-autoencoder decompositions of real neural audio codecs encode accent in activation magnitude or position, depending on codec type

Papers

On the Geometry of Music Bandwidth Extension in Latent Spaces of Audio Codecs (2026), Towards Interpretable Framework for Neural Audio Codecs via Sparse Autoencoders: A Case Study on Accent Information (2026)