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We present a traditional approach to symbolic piano music continuation for the MIREX 2025 Symbolic Music Generation challenge. While computational music generation has recently focused on developing large foundation models with…

This paper explores the modeling method of polyphonic music sequence. Due to the great potential of Transformer models in music generation, controllable music generation is receiving more attention. In the task of polyphonic music, current…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Jiuyang Zhou , Tengfei Niu , Hong Zhu , Xingping Wang

Music evokes emotion in many people. We introduce a novel way to manipulate the emotional content of a song using AI tools. Our goal is to achieve the desired emotion while leaving the original melody as intact as possible. For this, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Adel N. Abdalla , Jared Osborne , Razvan Andonie

We demonstrate how conditional generation from diffusion models can be used to tackle a variety of realistic tasks in the production of music in 44.1kHz stereo audio with sampling-time guidance. The scenarios we consider include…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Mark Levy , Bruno Di Giorgi , Floris Weers , Angelos Katharopoulos , Tom Nickson

Large deep-learning models for music, including those focused on learning general-purpose music audio representations, are often assumed to require substantial training data to achieve high performance. If true, this would pose challenges…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Christos Plachouras , Emmanouil Benetos , Johan Pauwels

Deep learning-based probabilistic models of musical data are producing increasingly realistic results and promise to enter creative workflows of many kinds. Yet they have been little-studied in a performance setting, where the results of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Victor Shepardson , Jack Armitage , Thor Magnusson

Generating multi-instrument music from symbolic music representations is an important task in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). A central but still largely unsolved problem in this context is musically and acoustically informed control in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Ben Maman , Johannes Zeitler , Meinard Müller , Amit H. Bermano

Music creation involves not only composing the different parts (e.g., melody, chords) of a musical work but also arranging/selecting the instruments to play the different parts. While the former has received increasing attention, the latter…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-03 Yun-Ning Hung , I-Tung Chiang , Yi-An Chen , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Generative artificial intelligence models can be a valuable aid to music composition and live performance, both to aid the professional musician and to help democratize the music creation process for hobbyists. Here we present a novel…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Ignacio J. Tripodi

Leveraging the compositional nature of our world to expedite learning and facilitate generalization is a hallmark of human perception. In machine learning, on the other hand, achieving compositional generalization has proven to be an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Thaddäus Wiedemer , Prasanna Mayilvahanan , Matthias Bethge , Wieland Brendel

Procedural Music Generation (PMG) is an emerging field that algorithmically creates music content for video games. By leveraging techniques from simple rule-based approaches to advanced machine learning algorithms, PMG has the potential to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shangxuan Luo , Joshua Reiss

This work presents a generative neural network that's able to generate expressive piano performance in MIDI format. The musical expressivity is reflected by vivid micro-timing, rich polyphonic texture, varied dynamics, and the sustain pedal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jingwei Liu

In the space of only a few years, deep generative modeling has revolutionized how we think of artificial creativity, yielding autonomous systems which produce original images, music, and text. Inspired by these successes, researchers are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Daniel C. Elton , Zois Boukouvalas , Mark D. Fuge , Peter W. Chung

Deep generative models are now able to synthesize high-quality audio signals, shifting the critical aspect in their development from audio quality to control capabilities. Although text-to-music generation is getting largely adopted by the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Nils Demerlé , Philippe Esling , Guillaume Doras , David Genova

Autoregressive generative transformers are key in music generation, producing coherent compositions but facing challenges in human-machine collaboration. We propose RefinPaint, an iterative technique that improves the sampling process. It…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Pedro Ramoneda , Martin Rocamora , Taketo Akama

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence have significantly enhanced generative tasks involving music and images, employing both unimodal and multimodal approaches. This research develops a model capable of generating music that…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Tanisha Hisariya , Huan Zhang , Jinhua Liang

Despite deep learning's remarkable advances in style transfer across various domains, generating controllable performance-level musical style transfer for complete symbolically represented musical works remains a challenging area of…

The field of automatic music composition has seen great progress in recent years, specifically with the invention of transformer-based architectures. When using any deep learning model which considers music as a sequence of events with…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Dimos Makris , Guo Zixun , Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas , Dorien Herremans

Recently, symbolic music generation with deep learning techniques has witnessed steady improvements. Most works on this topic focus on MIDI representations, but less attention has been paid to symbolic music generation using guitar…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Pedro Sarmento , Adarsh Kumar , Yu-Hua Chen , CJ Carr , Zack Zukowski , Mathieu Barthet

While deep generative models have empowered music generation, it remains a challenging and under-explored problem to edit an existing musical piece at fine granularity. In this paper, we propose SDMuse, a unified Stochastic Differential…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Chen Zhang , Yi Ren , Kejun Zhang , Shuicheng Yan