AudioX-Turbo: A Unified Framework for Efficient Anything-to-Audio Generation
About
Audio and music generation based on flexible multimodal control signals is a widely applicable topic, with the following key challenges: 1) a unified multimodal modeling framework, 2) large-scale, high-quality training data, and 3) the prohibitive inference cost of multi-step diffusion sampling. As such, we propose AudioX-Turbo, a unified and efficient framework for anything-to-audio generation that integrates varied multimodal conditions (i.e., text, video, and audio signals) in this work. AudioX-Turbo follows a teacher-student paradigm. The teacher AudioX-Base is built on a Multimodal Diffusion Transformer with a Multimodal Adaptive Fusion module that aligns diverse multimodal inputs for high-fidelity synthesis, and is then distilled into the few-step student AudioX-Turbo via Distribution Matching Distillation adapted to flow matching, complemented by a diffusion-based discriminator for high-quality few-step generation. To support the training of AudioX-Turbo, we construct a large-scale, high-quality dataset, IF-caps-Pro, comprising approximately 9.2M samples curated through a two-stage data collection and annotation pipeline. We benchmark AudioX-Turbo across a wide range of tasks, finding that our model achieves superior performance, especially on text-to-audio and text-to-music generation, while operating at only 4 sampling steps and requiring approximately 25x fewer function evaluations (NFE) than multi-step baselines. These results demonstrate that our method is capable of audio generation under flexible multimodal control, showing efficient and powerful instruction-following capabilities. The code and datasets will be available at https://zeyuet.github.io/AudioX-Turbo/.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video-to-Audio Generation | VGGSound | FD_VGG6.94 | 32 | |
| Text-to-Audio | AudioCaps | FD (OpenL3)11.81 | 27 | |
| Text-to-Music Generation | MusicCaps | KLD1.31 | 19 | |
| Text-to-Audio Instruction Following | T2ABench | Count Accuracy (Cnt-acc)24 | 18 | |
| Text-to-Audio Instruction Following | AudioTime | Ordering Accuracy63 | 18 | |
| Text-to-Audio Generation | VGGSound | Fréchet Audio Distance (FAD)1.44 | 14 | |
| Audio Inpainting | AVVP (test) | IS5.99 | 11 | |
| Text-to-Music (T2M) | V2M-bench | KL Divergence0.43 | 10 | |
| Video-to-Audio (V2A) | VGGSound | KL Divergence1.98 | 9 | |
| Audio Inpainting | AudioCaps (test) | IS8.59 | 7 |