2026 · audio
AI Music Detection on Unseen Generators
A detector with 0.975 balanced accuracy on the generators it was trained on catches only about half of the clips from a generator it has never seen.
Zongyou (Fred) Xiang
M.S. Data Analytics, University of Central Florida · Applying to Ph.D. programs for Fall 2027
I come to machine learning from music: a B.A. in electronic music at Bard College, an M.A. in music business at NYU, and work in artist management, music publishing and platform operations. Now I study how to tell where a piece of AI-generated music came from.
Research interest
Provenance of AI-generated musicDetect
Was this piece made by AI?
Attribute
Whose style does it imitate?
Verify
Does it copy existing works?
Research
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Testing a Beethoven Classifier on Recombined Imitations
Real Beethoven bars spliced from different works pass as Beethoven 83–92% of the time. A detector that reads the joins between bars separates them from real music.
Education
2026 – 2027
University of Central Florida
M.S. Data Analytics (expected May 2027)
2022 – 2024
New York University
M.A. Music Business
2019 – 2022
Bard College
B.A. Electronic Music