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Publications: Mr Benjamin Hayes

Hayes B, Saitis C, Fazekas G ( 2025 ) . Audio synthesizer inversion in symmetric parameter spaces with approximately equivariant flow matching .
Hayes B, Shier J, Fazekas G, McPherson A, Saitis C ( 2024 ) . A review of differentiable digital signal processing for music and speech synthesis . Frontiers in Signal Processing vol. 3 ,
Bindi G, Demerlé N, Diaz R, Genova D, Golvet A, Huang J, Martos V, Pelinski T et al. ( 2023 ) . AI (r)evolution – where are we heading? Thoughts about the future of music and sound technologies in the era of deep learning . Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) ( Paris, France ),
Hayes B, Shier J, Fazekas G, McPherson A, Saitis C ( 2023 ) . A Review of Differentiable Digital Signal Processing for Music & Speech Synthesis .
Diaz R, Hayes B, Saitis C, Fazekas G, Sandler M ( 2023 ) . Rigid-Body Sound Synthesis with Differentiable Modal Resonators . Conference: ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) vol. 00 , 1 - 5 .
Hayes B, Saitis C ( 2023 ) . Sinusoidal Frequency Estimation by Gradient Descent . Conference: ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) vol. 00 , 1 - 5 .
Hayes B, Fazekas G ( 2023 ) . The Responsibility Problem in Neural Networks with Unordered Targets . Published as a Tiny Paper at ICLR 2023 . Conference: International Conference on Learning Representations
Miller J, Lewis D, Guo Z, Li Y, Ma Y, Vahidi C, Boon H, Wolstanholme L et al. ( 2022 ) . DMRN+17: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2022 . Conference: DMRN+17: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2022 ( Queen Mary Univeristy of London ) from: 20/12/2022 to: 20/12/2022 ,
Diaz R, Hayes B, Saitis C, Fazekas G, Sandler M ( 2022 ) . Rigid-Body Sound Synthesis with Differentiable Modal Resonators .
Hayes B, Fazekas G ( 2022 ) . Sinusoidal Frequency Estimation by Gradient Descent .
Hayes B, Saitis C ( 2022 ) . Disembodied Timbres: A Study on Semantically Prompted FM Synthesis . Journal of the Audio Engineering Society vol. 70 , ( 5 ) 373 - 391 .
Hayes B, Saitis C ( 2022 ) . timbre.fun: A gamified interactive system for crowdsourcing a timbre semantic vocabulary . Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics .
Grechin S, Banar B, Hayes B, Welham C, Pelinski T, Poliakov E, Li Y, Zhang H et al. ( 2021 ) . DMRN+16: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2021 . Conference: DMRN+16: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2021 ( Online. QMUL ) from: 21/12/2021 to: 21/12/2021 ,
Hayes B, Saitis C ( 2021 ) . Neural Waveshaping Synthesis . Conference: Proceedings of the 22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval ( Online ) from: 08/11/2021 to: 12/11/2021 ,
Hayes B, Saitis C ( 2021 ) . Neural Waveshaping Synthesis .
Hayes B, Saitis C ( 2021 ) . NEURAL WAVESHAPING SYNTHESIS . Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference , vol. 2021 ,
ZACHARAKIS A, Hayes B, Saitis C ( 2020 ) . Evidence for timbre space robustness to an uncontrolled online stimulus presentation . Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Timbre . Conference: Timbre 2020 ( Thessaloniki (Online) ) from: 03/09/2020 to: 04/09/2020 , 129 - 132 .
Hayes B, Saitis C ( 2020 ) . There’s more to timbre than musical instruments: semantic dimensions of FM sounds . Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Timbre . Conference: Timbre 2020 ( Thessaloniki (Online) ) from: 03/09/2020 to: 04/09/2020 , 69 - 72 .
Hayes B, Saitis C, Fazekas G . Audio synthesizer inversion in symmetric parameter spaces with approximately equivariant flow matching . Conference: ISMIR 2025 ( Daejeon, Korea ) from: 21/09/2025 to: 25/09/2025 ,
Yu C-Y, Martinez Ramirez M, Koo J, Hayes B, Liao W-H, Fazekas G, Mitsufuji Y . DiffVox: A Differentiable Model for Capturing and Analysing Professional Effects Distributions . Conference: International Conference on Digital Audio Effects
Hayes B, Saitis C, Fazekas G . Disembodied Timbres: a Study on Semantically Prompted FM Synthesis .