Michael Finkelson

Michael (Mickey) Finkelson

PhD Candidate, Tel Aviv University · AI Researcher, LTX

I am a PhD candidate at Tel Aviv University and an AI Researcher at LTX. My research spans generative audio, generative video, and multimodal learning. I especially enjoy training large models and adding new capabilities to them. I am supervised by Dr. Or Patashnik.

Publications

2026

  1. ScenA preview
    Reference-Driven Multi-Speaker Audio Scene Generation from In-the-Wild Priors
    M. Finkelson, D. Segal, E. Richardson, S. Armon, N. Goldring, P. Panet, N. Zabari, B. Brazowski, O. Patashnik, Y. HaCohen
    arXiv project page
  2. ParetoSlider preview
    ParetoSlider: Diffusion Models Post-Training for Continuous Reward Control
    S. Golan, M. Finkelson, A. Bereslavsky, Y. Nitzan, O. Patashnik
    arXiv project page code
  3. LTX-2: Efficient Joint Audio-Visual Foundation Model
    Y. HaCohen, B. Brazowski, N. Chiprut, Y. Bitterman, A. Kvochko, A. Berkowitz, M. Finkelson, et al.
    arXiv code

2025

  1. CAFA preview
    CAFA: a Controllable Automatic Foley Artist
    R. Benita*, M. Finkelson*, T. Halperin, G. Sterkin, Y. Adi
    ICCV 2025
    arXiv project page code