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While music generation models have evolved to handle complex multimodal inputs mixing text, lyrics, and reference audio, evaluation mechanisms have lagged behind. In this paper, we bridge this critical gap by establishing a comprehensive…

While Large Language Models (LLMs) make symbolic music generation increasingly accessible, producing music with distinctive composition and rich expressiveness remains a significant challenge. Many studies have introduced emotion models to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Dengyun Huang , Yonghua Zhu

Probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) are widely used to discover latent structure in data, but their success hinges on selecting an appropriate model design. In practice, model specification is difficult and often requires iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Kevin Zhang , Yixin Wang

Global climate models (GCMs), typically run at ~100-km resolution, capture large-scale environmental conditions but cannot resolve convection and cloud processes at kilometer scales. Convection-permitting models offer higher-resolution…

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This work proposes a machine-learning framework for modeling the error incurred by approximate solutions to parameterized dynamical systems. In particular, we extend the machine-learning error models (MLEM) framework proposed in Ref. 15 to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Eric J. Parish , Kevin T. Carlberg

In deep learning research, many melody extraction models rely on redesigning neural network architectures to improve performance. In this paper, we propose an input feature modification and a training objective modification based on two…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Keren Shao , Ke Chen , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov

We apply deep learning methods, specifically long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, to music transcription modelling and composition. We build and train LSTM networks using approximately 23,000 music transcriptions expressed with a…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Bob L. Sturm , João Felipe Santos , Oded Ben-Tal , Iryna Korshunova

We develop a generalized method of moments (GMM) approach for fast parameter estimation in a new class of Dirichlet latent variable models with mixed data types. Parameter estimation via GMM has been demonstrated to have computational and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-24 Shiwen Zhao , Barbara E. Engelhardt , Sayan Mukherjee , David B. Dunson

Estimation of the large $Q$-matrix in Cognitive Diagnosis Models (CDMs) with many items and latent attributes from observational data has been a huge challenge due to its high computational cost. Borrowing ideas from deep learning…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-11-30 Chengcheng Li , Chenchen Ma , Gongjun Xu

We present transductive Boltzmann machines (TBMs), which firstly achieve transductive learning of the Gibbs distribution. While exact learning of the Gibbs distribution is impossible by the family of existing Boltzmann machines due to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-22 Mahito Sugiyama , Koji Tsuda , Hiroyuki Nakahara

Traditional pairwise sequence alignment is based on matching individual samples from two sequences, under time monotonicity constraints. However, in many application settings matching subsequences (segments) instead of individual samples…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Shahriar Shariat , Vladimir Pavlovic

We investigate the problem of modeling symbolic sequences of polyphonic music in a completely general piano-roll representation. We introduce a probabilistic model based on distribution estimators conditioned on a recurrent neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski , Yoshua Bengio , Pascal Vincent

We introduce Thurstonian Boltzmann Machines (TBM), a unified architecture that can naturally incorporate a wide range of data inputs at the same time. Our motivation rests in the Thurstonian view that many discrete data types can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-08-04 Truyen Tran , Dinh Phung , Svetha Venkatesh

Music classification between music made by AI or human composers can be done by deep learning networks. We first transformed music samples in midi format to natural language sequences, then classified these samples by mLSTM (multiplicative…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Yiting Xia , Yiwei Jiang , Tao Ye

This paper explores sequential modelling of polyphonic music with deep neural networks. While recent breakthroughs have focussed on network architecture, we demonstrate that the representation of the sequence can make an equally significant…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Omar Peracha

Contrastive representation learning is crucial in time series analysis as it alleviates the issue of data noise and incompleteness as well as sparsity of supervision signal. However, existing constrastive learning frameworks usually focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Haozhi Gao , Qianqian Ren , Jinbao Li

The work of a single musician, group or composer can vary widely in terms of musical style. Indeed, different stylistic elements, from performance medium and rhythm to harmony and texture, are typically exploited and developed across an…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Sergey Shuvaev , Hamza Giaffar , Alexei A. Koulakov

Music is usually highly structured and it is still an open question how to design models which can successfully learn to recognize and represent musical structure. A fundamental problem is that structurally related patterns can have very…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Stefan Lattner , Maarten Grachten , Gerhard Widmer

Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) and their extensions, called 'deep-belief networks', are powerful neural networks that have found applications in the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence. The standard way to training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Haik Manukian , Fabio L. Traversa , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Sequence modeling with neural networks has lead to powerful models of symbolic music data. We address the problem of exploiting these models to reach creative musical goals, by combining with human input. To this end we generalise previous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Christian Walder , Dongwoo Kim