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To train a machine learning model is necessary to take numerous decisions about many options for each process involved, in the field of sequence generation and more specifically of music composition, the nature of the problem helps to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Sebastian Garcia-Valencia , Alejandro Betancourt , Juan G. Lalinde-Pulido

Directly learning to generate audio waveforms in an autoregressive manner is a challenging task, due to the length of the raw sequences and the existence of important structure on many different timescales. Traditional approaches based on…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Konrad Szewczyk , Daniel Gallo Fernández , James Townsend

We present a probabilistic generative model for timing deviations in expressive music performance. The structure of the proposed model is equivalent to a switching state space model. The switch variables correspond to discrete note…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-27 A. T. Cemgil , B. Kappen

We introduce a Maximum Entropy model able to capture the statistics of melodies in music. The model can be used to generate new melodies that emulate the style of the musical corpus which was used to train it. Instead of using the $n-$body…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-12 Jason Sakellariou , Francesca Tria , Vittorio Loreto , François Pachet

Symbolic music generation is a challenging task in multimedia generation, involving long sequences with hierarchical temporal structures, long-range dependencies, and fine-grained local details. Though recent diffusion-based models produce…

Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods are a class of Monte Carlo methods that are used to obtain random samples of a high dimensional random variable in a sequential fashion. Many problems encountered in applications often involve different…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-20 Chencheng Cai , Rong Chen , Ming Lin

The fidelity with which neural networks can now generate content such as music presents a scientific opportunity: these systems appear to have learned implicit theories of such content's structure through statistical learning alone. This…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Nikhil Singh , Manuel Cherep , Pattie Maes

Recent advances in music generation produce impressive samples, however, practical creation still lacks two key capabilities: composer-style structural editing and minute-scale coherence. We present MusicWeaver, a framework for generating…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xuanchen Wang , Heng Wang , Weidong Cai

We present a neural sequence model designed specifically for symbolic music. The model is based on a learned edit distance mechanism which generalises a classic recursion from computer sci- ence, leading to a neural dynamic program. Re-…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Christian J. Walder , Dongwoo Kim

Natural language processing methods have been applied in a variety of music studies, drawing the connection between music and language. In this paper, we expand those approaches by investigating \textit{chord embeddings}, which we apply in…

Spurred by the potential of deep learning, computational music generation has gained renewed academic interest. A crucial issue in music generation is that of user control, especially in scenarios where the music generation process is…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Stefan Lattner , Maarten Grachten

Sequence-to-sequence learning with neural networks has become the de facto standard for sequence prediction tasks. This approach typically models the local distribution over the next word with a powerful neural network that can condition on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Yoon Kim

Based on a review of anecdotal beliefs, we explored patterns of track-sequencing within professional music albums. We found that songs with high levels of valence, energy and loudness are more likely to be positioned at the beginning of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Pedro Neto , Martin Hartmann , Geoff Luck , Petri Toiviainen

Creating a complex work of art like music necessitates profound creativity. With recent advancements in deep learning and powerful models such as transformers, there has been huge progress in automatic music generation. In an accompaniment…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Rishabh Dahale , Vaibhav Talwadker , Preeti Rao , Prateek Verma

In music source separation, a standard training data augmentation procedure is to create new training samples by randomly combining instrument stems from different songs. These random mixes have mismatched characteristics compared to real…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Chang-Bin Jeon , Gordon Wichern , François G. Germain , Jonathan Le Roux

To achieve a flexible recommendation and retrieval system, it is desirable to calculate music similarity by focusing on multiple partial elements of musical pieces and allowing the users to select the element they want to focus on. A…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Yuka Hashizume , Li Li , Atsushi Miyashita , Tomoki Toda

Consistency models have exhibited remarkable capabilities in facilitating efficient image/video generation, enabling synthesis with minimal sampling steps. It has proven to be advantageous in mitigating the computational burdens associated…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Zhengcong Fei , Mingyuan Fan , Junshi Huang

Symbolic Music Generation relies on the contextual representation capabilities of the generative model, where the most prevalent approach is the Transformer-based model. The learning of musical context is also related to the structural…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Guowei Wu , Shipei Liu , Xiaoya Fan

Automatic music generation systems have gained in popularity and sophistication as advances in cloud computing have enabled large-scale complex computations such as deep models and optimization algorithms on personal devices. Yet, they…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Dorien Herremans , Elaine Chew