publications

2026

1. ICLR

   Generative Adversarial Post-Training Mitigates Reward Hacking in Live Human-AI Music Interaction

   Yusong Wu, Stephen Brade, Aleksandra Teng Ma, and 6 more authors

   In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{wu2025generativeadversarialposttrainingmitigates,
     title = {Generative Adversarial Post-Training Mitigates Reward Hacking in Live Human-AI Music Interaction},
     author = {Wu, Yusong and Brade, Stephen and Ma, Aleksandra Teng and Fowler, Tia-Jane and Yang, Enning and Banar, Berker and Courville, Aaron and Jaques, Natasha and Huang, Cheng-Zhi Anna},
     year = {2026},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
     eprint = {2511.17879},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {cs.LG},
   }

2. IUI

   Agents in Concert: A Case-Study of Bringing AI to the Stage in Practice

   Stephen Brade, Aleksandra Teng Ma, Lancelot Blanchard, and 8 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2026

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{ma2026iui,
     title = {Agents in Concert: A Case-Study of Bringing AI to the Stage in Practice},
     author = {Brade, Stephen and Ma, Aleksandra Teng and Blanchard, Lancelot and Lecamwasam, Kimaya and Salcedo, Carlos Mariano and Kim, Suwan and Naseck, Perry and Li, Andrew and Michalek, Matthew R. and Franjou, Sebastian and Huang, Cheng-Zhi Anna},
     booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)}},
     year = {2026},
     doi = {10.1145/3742413.3789104}
   }

3. ISMIR

   H2H Music Improv: A Communication Model and Audio-Visual Dataset for Music Improvisation

   Aleksandra Teng Ma, Anthony Cammarota, Jiayi Wang, and 4 more authors

   In Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) 2026

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   @inproceedings{ma26a_ismir,
     title = {{H2H Music Improv: A Communication Model and Audio-Visual Dataset for Music Improvisation}},
     author = {Ma, Aleksandra Teng and Cammarota, Anthony and Wang, Jiayi and Smith, Alexandria and Huang, Cheng-Zhi Anna and Albert, Jeffrey and Lerch, Alexander},
     year = {2026},
     booktitle = {{Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)}}
   }

4. ICMC

   Music of Changing Lines: Toward a Culturally Situated Approach to the I-Ching

   Ling Qi, Aleksandra Teng Ma, and Alexandria Smith

   In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2026

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   @inproceedings{qi26_icmc,
     title = {{Music of Changing Lines: Toward a Culturally Situated Approach to the I-Ching}},
     author = {Qi, Ling and Ma, Aleksandra Teng and Smith, Alexandria},
     year = {2026},
     booktitle = {{Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)}}
   }

5. Thesis

   Lip Reading for Singing: Audio-Visual Approaches to Singing Voice Separation

   Aleksandra Teng Ma

   2026

   Bib PDF

   @phdthesis{ma2026dissertation,
     title = {Lip Reading for Singing: Audio-Visual Approaches to Singing Voice Separation},
     author = {Ma, Aleksandra Teng},
     school = {Georgia Institute of Technology},
     year = {2026}
   }

2025

1. Interspeech

   Real-Time Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement Using Pre-trained Visual Representations

   Aleksandra Teng Ma, Sile Yin, Li-Chia Yang, and 1 more author

   In Interspeech 2025

   Bib PDF Code Website

   @inproceedings{ma25c_interspeech,
     title = {{Real-Time Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement Using Pre-trained Visual Representations}},
     author = {Ma, Aleksandra Teng and Yin, Sile and Yang, Li-Chia and Zhang, Shuo},
     year = {2025},
     booktitle = {{Interspeech}},
     pages = {61--65},
     doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2223},
     issn = {2958-1796}
   }

2. WASPAA

   Real-Time System for Audio-Visual Target Speech Enhancement

   Aleksandra Teng Ma, Sile Yin, Li-Chia Yang, and 1 more author

   In IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) Demonstrations 2025

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   @inproceedings{ma25c_waspaa,
     title = {{Real-Time System for Audio-Visual Target Speech Enhancement}},
     author = {Ma, Aleksandra Teng and Yin, Sile and Yang, Li-Chia and Zhang, Shuo},
     year = {2025},
     booktitle = {{IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) Demonstrations}}
   }

3. ECIR

   Uncertainty Estimation in the Real World: A Study on Music Emotion Recognition

   Karn N Watcharasupat, Yiwei Ding, Aleksandra Teng Ma, and 2 more authors

   In European Conference on Information Retrieval 2025

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{watcharasupat2025uncertainty,
     title = {Uncertainty Estimation in the Real World: A Study on Music Emotion Recognition},
     author = {Watcharasupat, Karn N and Ding, Yiwei and Ma, Aleksandra Teng and Seshadri, Pavan and Lerch, Alexander},
     booktitle = {European Conference on Information Retrieval},
     pages = {218--232},
     year = {2025},
     organization = {Springer}
   }

2024

1. AES

   Music auto-tagging in the long tail: A few-shot approach

   Aleksandra Teng Ma, and Alexander Lerch

   In Audio Engineering Society Convention NY 2024 2024

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{tagging_aes,
     title = {{Music auto-tagging in the long tail: A few-shot approach}},
     author = {Ma, Aleksandra Teng and Lerch, Alexander},
     year = {2024},
     booktitle = {{Audio Engineering Society Convention NY 2024}}
   }