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Recent advances in generative AI for music have achieved remarkable fidelity and stylistic diversity, yet these systems often fail to align with nuanced human preferences due to the specific loss functions they use. This paper advocates for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Dorien Herremans , Abhinaba Roy

Evaluating generative models remains a fundamental challenge, particularly when the goal is to reflect human preferences. In this paper, we use music generation as a case study to investigate the gap between automatic evaluation metrics and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Huan Zhang , Jinhua Liang , Huy Phan , Wenwu Wang , Emmanouil Benetos

Generative art is a rules-driven approach to creating artistic outputs in various mediums. For example, a fluid simulation can govern the flow of colored pixels across a digital display or a rectangle placement algorithm can yield a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Erik M. Fredericks , Denton Bobeldyk , Jared M. Moore

Understanding how cognitive and social mechanisms shape the evolution of complex artifacts such as songs is central to cultural evolution research. Social network topology (what artifacts are available?), selection (which are chosen?), and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Raja Marjieh , Manuel Anglada-Tort , Thomas L. Griffiths , Nori Jacoby

In recent years, AI-generated music has made significant progress, with several models performing well in multimodal and complex musical genres and scenes. While objective metrics can be used to evaluate generative music, they often lack…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zeyu Xiong , Weitao Wang , Jing Yu , Yue Lin , Ziyan Wang

Finding the music of the moment can often be a challenging problem, even for well-versed music listeners. Musical tastes are constantly in flux, and the problem of developing computational models for musical taste dynamics presents a rich…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Massimo Quadrana , Marta Reznakova , Tao Ye , Erik Schmidt , Hossein Vahabi

This paper introduces four different artificial intelligence algorithms for music generation and aims to compare these methods not only based on the aesthetic quality of the generated music but also on their suitability for specific…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Razvan Paroiu , Stefan Trausan-Matu

Generating melody from lyrics is an interesting yet challenging task in the area of artificial intelligence and music. However, the difficulty of keeping the consistency between input lyrics and generated melody limits the generation…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Wei Duan , Zhe Zhang , Yi Yu , Keizo Oyama

In this paper we introduce a novel feature augmentation approach for generating structured musical compositions comprising melodies and harmonies. The proposed method augments a connectionist generation model with count-down to song…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Shakeel Raja

The ultimate purpose of generative music AI is music production. The studio-lab, a social form within the art-science branch of cross-disciplinarity, is a way to advance music production with AI music models. During a studio-lab experiment…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Emmanuel Deruty , Maarten Grachten

Existing symbolic music generation methods usually utilize discriminator to improve the quality of generated music via global perception of music. However, considering the complexity of information in music, such as rhythm and melody, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zhedong Zhang , Liang Li , Jiehua Zhang , Zhenghui Hu , Hongkui Wang , Chenggang Yan , Jian Yang , Yuankai Qi

Modelling musical structure is vital yet challenging for artificial intelligence systems that generate symbolic music compositions. This literature review dissects the evolution of techniques for incorporating coherent structure, from…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Keshav Bhandari , Simon Colton

Music has always been thought of as a "human" endeavor -- when praising a piece of music, we emphasize the composer's creativity and the emotions the music invokes. Because music also heavily relies on patterns and repetition in the form of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Nicholas Yan

We describe a novel approach for generating music using a self-correcting, non-chronological, autoregressive model. We represent music as a sequence of edit events, each of which denotes either the addition or removal of a note---even a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-21 Wayne Chi , Prachi Kumar , Suri Yaddanapudi , Rahul Suresh , Umut Isik

Our goal is to be able to build a generative model from a deep neural network architecture to try to create music that has both harmony and melody and is passable as music composed by humans. Previous work in music generation has mainly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Allen Huang , Raymond Wu

We present a general computational approach that enables a machine to generate a dance for any input music. We encode intuitive, flexible heuristics for what a 'good' dance is: the structure of the dance should align with the structure of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Purva Tendulkar , Abhishek Das , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Devi Parikh

A model of music needs to have the ability to recall past details and have a clear, coherent understanding of musical structure. Detailed in the paper is a neural network architecture that predicts and generates polyphonic music aligned…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Nikhil Kotecha , Paul Young

Machine learning is the capacity of a computational system to learn structures from datasets in order to make predictions on newly seen data. Such an approach offers a significant advantage in music scenarios in which musicians can teach…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Rebecca Fiebrink , Baptiste Caramiaux

In recent decades, neuroscientific and psychological research has traced direct relationships between taste and auditory perceptions. This article explores multimodal generative models capable of converting taste information into music,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Matteo Spanio , Massimiliano Zampini , Antonio Rodà , Franco Pierucci

Generating a complex work of art such as a musical composition requires exhibiting true creativity that depends on a variety of factors that are related to the hierarchy of musical language. Music generation have been faced with Algorithmic…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Carlos Hernandez-Olivan , Jose R. Beltran