arxiv: 2512.20211 · v2 · submitted 2025-12-23 · 💻 cs.SD · eess.AS· eess.SP

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Aliasing-Free Neural Audio Synthesis

Yicheng Gu , Junan Zhang , Chaoren Wang , Jerry Li , Zhizheng Wu , Lauri Juvela

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keywords neural vocoderanti-aliasingaudio synthesissinging voice synthesismusic generationwaveform reconstructionneural codec

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The pith

Differentiable anti-aliasing modules in neural vocoders and codecs remove artifacts to boost music and singing synthesis.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper shows how to integrate anti-aliasing techniques from signal processing into neural audio models to prevent artifacts from non-linear functions and upsampling. The authors create Pupu-Vocoder and Pupu-Codec by adding these differentiable modules, and test them on speech, singing, music, and audio. Results indicate better performance than prior systems for singing voice, music, and audio, with similar results for speech. A benchmark for anti-aliased modules helps validate the approach.

Core claim

Pupu-Vocoder and Pupu-Codec incorporate differentiable anti-aliasing techniques into activation and upsampling modules, outperforming existing systems on singing voice, music, and audio while achieving comparable performance on speech.

What carries the argument

Differentiable anti-aliasing modules placed in activation functions and upsampling layers to suppress aliasing artifacts.

If this is right

Improved waveform reconstruction quality for complex audio signals like music and singing.
Comparable speech synthesis performance maintains usability for voice applications.
New benchmark enables systematic evaluation of aliasing in neural audio models.
The approach bridges digital signal processing and neural network design for audio.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

These modules could be adapted to other neural audio generators such as autoregressive or diffusion models.
Future work might explore combining this with higher sampling rates for even better fidelity.
Training stability with these insertions suggests they could be standard in future vocoder designs.

Load-bearing premise

Adding the differentiable anti-aliasing modules does not introduce training instabilities or quality trade-offs that cancel out the benefits.

What would settle it

Measure aliasing levels and perceptual quality scores on music and singing tasks after removing the anti-aliasing modules from the Pupu models; if quality drops significantly, the claim holds.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2512.20211 by Chaoren Wang, Jerry Li, Junan Zhang, Lauri Juvela, Yicheng Gu, Zhizheng Wu.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Illustration of different aliasing artifacts brought by the activation functions and upsampling layers. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: The main idea of our proposed anti-aliased activation function and upsampling layer. “ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Illustration of the equivalent filter frequency responses [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Architecture and training schemes of the proposed models. The Pupu-Codec consists of an encoder, a residual vector [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Spectrogram visualization with a zoomed-in view of high-frequency harmonic components (around 16 kHz) regarding [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Anti-aliasing case study by passing a sine sweep [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗

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In neural audio synthesis, neural vocoders and codecs are models that reconstruct waveforms from acoustic and latent representations, which are essential to the resulting audio quality. While current models are capable of generating perceptually natural speech, they still struggle with high-fidelity music and singing voice synthesis, as severe aliasing artifacts are introduced by non-linear activation functions and upsampling layers in existing architectures. Although various anti-aliasing techniques have been proposed in digital signal processing, their integration into neural vocoders and codecs remains under-explored. This paper incorporates differentiable anti-aliasing techniques into the activation and upsampling modules to bridge this gap, and thus presents Pupu-Vocoder and Pupu-Codec. We build a test signal benchmark to evaluate the anti-aliased modules, and validate our proposed models on speech, singing voice, music, and audio. Experimental results show that Pupu-Vocoder and Pupu-Codec outperform existing systems on singing voice, music, and audio, while achieving comparable performance on speech. Demos, codes, and checkpoints are available at VocodexElysium.github.io/AliasingFreeNeuralAudioSynthesis/.

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The paper shows a practical way to cut aliasing artifacts in neural vocoders and codecs for music and singing by adding differentiable anti-aliasing modules, with code released for checking.

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The main thing to know is that this work takes standard DSP anti-aliasing ideas and makes them differentiable so they slot into existing neural audio architectures without breaking training. They call the results Pupu-Vocoder and Pupu-Codec, and they test them across speech, singing, music, and general audio. The reported outcome is better quality on the harder domains while speech stays comparable, plus a new test-signal benchmark to measure the aliasing reduction directly. Releasing code, checkpoints, and demos is the right move here because it lets others run the same checks quickly.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper claims that inserting differentiable anti-aliasing modules into the activation functions and upsampling layers of standard neural vocoder and codec architectures yields Pupu-Vocoder and Pupu-Codec, which outperform prior systems on singing voice, music, and general audio while remaining comparable on speech; a dedicated test-signal benchmark is introduced to isolate the anti-aliasing benefit, and code/checkpoints are released.

Significance. If the gains hold, the work supplies a parameter-free architectural fix for a known source of artifacts in high-fidelity neural audio, directly improving domains (music, singing) where current models remain weakest. The explicit differentiability, released artifacts, and new benchmark constitute concrete strengths that support reproducibility and follow-on work.

major comments (2)

[Experiments] The central performance claims rest on comparisons whose statistical significance is not reported; without p-values or confidence intervals on the listening-test or objective scores, it is impossible to determine whether the reported outperformance on music and singing is robust or could be explained by variance.
[Method] Exact specifications of the differentiable anti-aliasing filters (cutoff, order, implementation inside the activation and upsampling blocks) are not provided; because these choices directly determine the aliasing suppression that is credited for the gains, the result cannot be reproduced from the text alone.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] The abstract states that the modules are 'parameter-free' yet does not explicitly confirm that no additional learnable parameters are introduced by the filter implementations.
[Figures] Figure captions and axis labels in the test-signal benchmark plots should state the exact frequency range and sampling rate used so that readers can interpret the aliasing reduction quantitatively.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the thorough review and the recommendation for minor revision. We are pleased that the significance of the work is recognized. Below we provide point-by-point responses to the major comments.

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Referee: The central performance claims rest on comparisons whose statistical significance is not reported; without p-values or confidence intervals on the listening-test or objective scores, it is impossible to determine whether the reported outperformance on music and singing is robust or could be explained by variance.

Authors: We acknowledge that statistical significance measures were not included in the original manuscript. In the revision, we will add 95% confidence intervals for all objective scores (computed over multiple random seeds) and report standard deviations across listeners for the subjective tests. This will be incorporated into the results tables and text. revision: yes
Referee: Exact specifications of the differentiable anti-aliasing filters (cutoff, order, implementation inside the activation and upsampling blocks) are not provided; because these choices directly determine the aliasing suppression that is credited for the gains, the result cannot be reproduced from the text alone.

Authors: We agree that the exact filter specifications are essential for reproducibility. In the revised manuscript, we will expand the method section with the precise cutoff frequencies, filter orders, and implementation details for the anti-aliasing modules within both the activation functions and upsampling layers, including the differentiable formulation used. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; claims rest on external benchmarks and released artifacts

full rationale

The paper's central contribution is an architectural modification—inserting differentiable anti-aliasing modules into activations and upsampling layers—validated through a dedicated test-signal benchmark and comparative listening tests on speech, singing, music, and audio. Performance gains are reported against prior published systems rather than quantities defined by internal fitted parameters. No self-definitional equations, fitted-input predictions, or load-bearing self-citation chains appear; the argument is self-contained against external, reproducible test conditions and released code/checkpoints.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The approach relies on standard neural-network training assumptions and classical DSP anti-aliasing principles; no new free parameters or invented entities are introduced beyond typical model hyperparameters.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Anti-aliasing operations can be formulated as differentiable functions suitable for gradient-based training.
Invoked when the authors state that anti-aliasing techniques are incorporated into activation and upsampling modules.

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