RIPPLE: Generating Multi-Channel Phase, Not Recovering It

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2607.27775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models synthesize magnitude spectra with high fidelity, while phase is delegated to a recovery module---Griffin--Lim, a vocoder, or a latent decoder---applied independently to each channel. For multi-channel waveforms this delegation is costly: the physical content of spatial audio and three-component seismograms lives in the phase relationships between channels, precisely what channel-independent recovery cannot produce. The cost is also invisible, since the magnitude-based metrics common to both fields barely move when inter-channel phase coherence collapses---so a pipeline can discard the physical information in its output while still scoring well. We argue that phase should be generated, not recovered, and present RIPPLE (Recti