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ArtiFree: Detecting and Reducing Generative Artifacts in Diffusion-based Speech Enhancement

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

SGMSE [1] solves a stochastic differential equation with a learned score network, while the Schr odinger Bridge (SB) [3, 4] casts speech enhancement as an optimal transport problem. These approaches often outperform predictive baselines in terms of perceptual quality and robustness [2, 10]. A key limitation, however, is the emergence of generative artifacts. Unlike predictive models, which mainly distort or suppress existing speech, diffusion-based SE can "hallucinate" new content. Artifacts include phonetic errors such as insertions or substitutions, spurious breathing or hissing, robotic tones, and high-frequency attenuation [10]. These effects are most pronounced at low SNR as shown in Figure 1, where uncertainty drives the model to generate plausible but incorrect phonetic structures, leading to poor ASR performance despite high PESQ or STOI scores [9]. Existing metrics fail to fully capture these errors: intrusive metrics emphasize energy-based distortions at the signal-level, while non-intrusive predictors favor naturalness and overrate generative outputs. Complementary measures such as Levenshtein phoneme distance (LPD) and hallucination error rate (HER) have been proposed to address this gap [11, 12].


Solving for Bespoke Game Assets: Applying Style to 3D Generative Artifacts

AAAI Conferences

In this paper, we present Solus Forge, a system for designing and generating 3D Lego models from a decomposition of the model into pieces and a series of spatial constraints over those pieces. We also include a style specification, which provides a series of transformations to perform on the initial model; adding, removing or modifying various pieces. To generate the models, we use a two-stage constraint solving process in which we first solve for the layout of the final model before then solving for the specific layout of the individual Lego pieces. In this way, we provide a framework for models that incorporates a specific set of criteria but also can be modified to fit a designer's needs.