Five audio foundation models are evaluated across six Western and non-Western music corpora, showing a consistent Western-centric bias and only limited generalization to culturally distant traditions.
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Universal Music Representations? Evaluating Foundation Models on World Music Corpora
Five audio foundation models are evaluated across six Western and non-Western music corpora, showing a consistent Western-centric bias and only limited generalization to culturally distant traditions.