AnyAccomp: Generalizable Accompaniment Generation Via Quantized Melodic Bottleneck
Singing Accompaniment Generation (SAG) is the process of generating instrumental music for a given clean vocal input. However, existing SAG techniques use source-separated vocals as input and overfit to separation artifacts. This creates a critical train-test mismatch, leading to failure on clean, real-world vocal inputs. We introduce AnyAccomp, a framework that resolves this by decoupling accompaniment generation from source-dependent artifacts. AnyAccomp first employs a quantized melodic bottleneck, using a chromagram and a VQ-VAE to extract a discrete and timbre-invariant representation of the core melody. A subsequent flow-matching model then generates the accompaniment conditioned on these robust codes. Experiments show AnyAccomp achieves competitive performance on separated-vocal benchmarks while significantly outperforming baselines on generalization test sets of clean studio vocals and, notably, solo instrumental tracks. This demonstrates a qualitative leap in generalization, enabling robust accompaniment for instruments—a task where existing models completely fail—and paving the way for more versatile music co-creation tools. Demo audio and code: https://anyaccomp.github.io/
Authors
- J. S. Zhang
- Yunjia Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8067-3592)
- Xueyao Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2615-019X)
- Zhizheng Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1192-9857)
Institutions
- Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CN)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2026-04-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icassp55912.2026.11462007
- Primary Topic
- Music Technology and Sound Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00