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Compositional generalization is a basic mechanism in human language learning, which current neural networks struggle with. A recently proposed Disentangled sequence-to-sequence model (Dangle) shows promising generalization capability by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Hao Zheng , Mirella Lapata

We consider the problem of learning high-level controls over the global structure of generated sequences, particularly in the context of symbolic music generation with complex language models. In this work, we present the Transformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Kristy Choi , Curtis Hawthorne , Ian Simon , Monica Dinculescu , Jesse Engel

We develop aspects of music theory related to harmony, such as scales, chord formation and improvisation from a combinatorial perspective. The goal is to provide a foundation for this subject by deriving the basic structure from a few…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Maksim Lipyanskiy

This paper explores the innovative application of the Fractional Fourier Transform (FrFT) in sound synthesis, highlighting its potential to redefine time-frequency analysis in audio processing. As an extension of the classical Fourier…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Esteban Gutiérrez , Rodrigo Cádiz , Carlos Sing Long , Frederic Font , Xavier Serra

We propose the Multi-Track Music Machine (MMM), a generative system based on the Transformer architecture that is capable of generating multi-track music. In contrast to previous work, which represents musical material as a single…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Jeff Ens , Philippe Pasquier

We present and release MIDI-GPT, a generative system based on the Transformer architecture that is designed for computer-assisted music composition workflows. MIDI-GPT supports the infilling of musical material at the track and bar level,…

Tone Transfer is a novel deep-learning technique for interfacing a sound source with a synthesizer, transforming the timbre of audio excerpts while keeping their musical form content. Due to its good audio quality results and continuous…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Franco Caspe , Andrew McPherson , Mark Sandler

Music can be represented in multiple forms, such as in the audio form as a recording of a performance, in the symbolic form as a computer readable score, or in the image form as a scan of the sheet music. Music synchronisation provides a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Ruchit Agrawal

Automatic generation of sequences has been a highly explored field in the last years. In particular, natural language processing and automatic music composition have gained importance due to the recent advances in machine learning and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Sebastian Garcia-Valencia , Alejandro Betancourt , Juan G. Lalinde-Pulido

We evaluated the impact of changing the observation scale over the entropy measures for text descriptions. MIDI coded Music, computer code and two human natural languages were studied at the scale of characters, words, and at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Gerardo Febres , Klaus Jaffe

Modern keyboards allow a musician to play multiple instruments at the same time by assigning zones -- fixed pitch ranges of the keyboard -- to different instruments. In this paper, we aim to further extend this idea and examine the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Hao-Wen Dong , Chris Donahue , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Julian McAuley

Wide passband interdigital transducers are employed to establish a stable phase-lock between a train of laser pulses emitted by a mode-locked laser and a surface acoustic wave generated electrically by the transducer. The transducer design…

Transformers and variational autoencoders (VAE) have been extensively employed for symbolic (e.g., MIDI) domain music generation. While the former boast an impressive capability in modeling long sequences, the latter allow users to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Shih-Lun Wu , Yi-Hsuan Yang

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 present an automatic piano transcription system that converts polyphonic audio recordings into musical scores. This has been a long-standing problem of music information processing, and recent studies have made remarkable progress in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Kentaro Shibata , Eita Nakamura , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

The first step to apply deep learning techniques for symbolic music understanding is to transform musical pieces (mainly in MIDI format) into sequences of predefined tokens like note pitch, note velocity, and chords. Subsequently, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Jinhao Tian , Zuchao Li , Jiajia Li , Ping Wang

Despite the significant progress in controllable music generation and editing, challenges remain in the quality and length of generated music due to the use of Mel-spectrogram representations and UNet-based model structures. To address…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Siyuan Hou , Shansong Liu , Ruibin Yuan , Wei Xue , Ying Shan , Mangsuo Zhao , Chao Zhang

In this work, we introduce the demonstration of symbolic music generation, focusing on providing short musical motifs that serve as the central theme of the narrative. For the generation, we adopt an autoregressive model which takes musical…

Real-time frequency analysis of musical instruments, such as the piano, is an essential feature in areas like electronic tuners, music visualizers, and live sound monitoring. Traditional methods often rely on software-based digital signal…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Shafayet M. Anik , D. G. Perera

Representing symbolic music with compound tokens, where each token consists of several different sub-tokens representing a distinct musical feature or attribute, offers the advantage of reducing sequence length. While previous research has…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 HaeJun Yoo , Hao-Wen Dong , Jongmin Jung , Dasaem Jeong