| Chils: Zero-shot image classification with hierarchical label sets Z Novack, J McAuley, ZC Lipton, S Garg International Conference on Machine Learning, 26342-26362, 2023 | 137 | 2023 |
| DITTO: Diffusion inference-time t-optimization for music generation Z Novack, J McAuley, T Berg-Kirkpatrick, NJ Bryan International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML), 2024 | 86 | 2024 |
| DITTO-2: Distilled diffusion inference-time t-optimization for music generation Z Novack, J McAuley, T Berg-Kirkpatrick, N Bryan International Society of Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2024 | 28 | 2024 |
| Presto! Distilling Steps and Layers for Accelerating Music Generation Z Novack, G Zhu, J Casebeer, J McAuley, T Berg-Kirkpatrick, NJ Bryan International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024 | 20 | 2024 |
| Are you really listening? Boosting Perceptual Awareness in Music-QA Benchmarks Y Zang, S O'Brien, T Berg-Kirkpatrick, J McAuley, Z Novack International Society of Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2025 | 13 | 2025 |
| PDMX: A Large-Scale Public Domain MusicXML Dataset for Symbolic Music Processing P Long, Z Novack, T Berg-Kirkpatrick, J McAuley International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024 | 13* | 2024 |
| Futga: Towards fine-grained music understanding through temporally-enhanced generative augmentation J Wu, Z Novack, A Namburi, J Dai, HW Dong, Z Xie, C Chen, J McAuley arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.20445, 2024 | 11 | 2024 |
| Fast Text-to-Audio Generation with Adversarial Post-Training Z Novack, Z Evans, Z Zukowski, J Taylor, CJ Carr, J Parker, A Al-Sinan, ... IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics …, 2025 | 10 | 2025 |
| Aligning Text-to-Music Evaluation with Human Preferences Y Huang, Z Novack, K Saito, J Shi, S Watanabe, Y Mitsufuji, J Thickstun, ... International Society of Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2025 | 7 | 2025 |
| FUTGA-MIR: Enhancing Fine-grained and Temporally-aware Music Understanding with Music Information Retrieval J Wu, Z Novack, A Namburi, HW Dong, C Chen, J Dai, J McAuley ICASSP 2025-2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and …, 2025 | 6 | 2025 |
| CoLLAP: Contrastive Long-form Language-Audio Pretraining with Musical Temporal Structure Augmentation J Wu, W Li, Z Novack, A Namburi, C Chen, J McAuley International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024 | 6 | 2024 |
| Video-Guided Text-to-Music Generation Using Public Domain Movie Collections H Kim, Z Novack, W Xu, J McAuley, HW Dong International Society of Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2025 | 4 | 2025 |
| Zephyrus: An Agentic Framework for Weather Science S Varambally, M Fisher, J Thakker, Y Chen, Z Xia, Y Jafari, R Niu, M Jain, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.04017, 2025 | 2 | 2025 |
| WildScore: Benchmarking MLLMs in-the-Wild Symbolic Music Reasoning G Mundada, Y Vishe, A Namburi, X Xu, Z Novack, J McAuley, J Wu Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Main Conference, 2025 | 2 | 2025 |
| Repurposing Marigold for Zero-Shot Metric Depth Estimation via Defocus Blur Cues C Talegaonkar, NG Suresh, Z Novack, Y Belhe, P Nagasamudra, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.17358, 2025 | 2 | 2025 |
| Towards building multimodal weather LLMs S Varambally, VV Manivannan, Y Jafari, L Han, Z Novack, Z Xia, ... ICML 2025 Workshop on Assessing World Models, 2025 | 2 | 2025 |
| Unsupervised Lead Sheet Generation via Semantic Compression Z Novack, N Srivatsan, T Berg-Kirkpatrick, J McAuley Audio Engineering Society (AES) Workshop on AI & the Musician, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
| Disentangling the Mechanisms Behind Implicit Regularization in SGD Z Novack, S Kaur, T Marwah, S Garg, ZC Lipton International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
| Musicrs: Benchmarking audio-centric conversational recommendation R Surana, A Namburi, G Mundada, A Lal, Z Novack, J McAuley, J Wu arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.19469, 2025 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bob's Confetti: Phonetic Memorization Attacks in Music and Video Generation J Roh, Z Novack, Y Peng, N Mireshghallah, T Berg-Kirkpatrick, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.17937, 2025 | 1 | 2025 |
Julian McAuleyProfessor, UC San DiegoVerified email at eng.ucsd.edu
