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This paper proposes a novel way of doing audio synthesis at the waveform level using Transformer architectures. We propose a deep neural network for generating waveforms, similar to wavenet. This is fully probabilistic, auto-regressive, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Prateek Verma , Chris Chafe

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

Discovering and exploring the underlying structure of multi-instrumental music using learning-based approaches remains an open problem. We extend the recent MusicVAE model to represent multitrack polyphonic measures as vectors in a latent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-04 Ian Simon , Adam Roberts , Colin Raffel , Jesse Engel , Curtis Hawthorne , Douglas Eck

Musical expressivity and coherence are indispensable in music composition and performance, while often neglected in modern AI generative models. In this work, we introduce a listening-based data-processing technique that captures the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jingwei Liu

A new architecture of an artificial neural network that helps to generate longer melodic patterns is introduced alongside with methods for post-generation filtering. The proposed approach called variational autoencoder supported by history…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Ivan P. Yamshchikov , Alexey Tikhonov

We examine the problem of learning a probabilistic model for melody directly from musical sequences belonging to the same genre. This is a challenging task as one needs to capture not only the rich temporal structure evident in music, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Athina Spiliopoulou , Amos Storkey

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

While recent generative models can produce engaging music, their utility is limited. The variation in the music is often left to chance, resulting in compositions that lack structure. Pieces extending beyond a minute can become incoherent…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Lilac Atassi

How to model distribution of sequential data, including but not limited to speech and human motions, is an important ongoing research problem. It has been demonstrated that model capacity can be significantly enhanced by introducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Guokun Lai , Bohan Li , Guoqing Zheng , Yiming Yang

A big challenge in algorithmic composition is to devise a model that is both easily trainable and able to reproduce the long-range temporal dependencies typical of music. Here we investigate how artificial neural networks can be trained on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-24 Florian Colombo , Samuel P. Muscinelli , Alexander Seeholzer , Johanni Brea , Wulfram Gerstner

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

Discrete-time modeling of acoustic, mechanical and electrical systems is a prominent topic in the musical signal processing literature. Such models are mostly derived by discretizing a mathematical model, given in terms of ordinary or…

In this work, we propose a flexible method for generating variations of discrete sequences in which tokens can be grouped into basic units, like sentences in a text or bars in music. More precisely, given a template sequence, we aim at…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Gaëtan Hadjeres , Léopold Crestel

The rise of deep learning technologies has quickly advanced many fields, including that of generative music systems. There exist a number of systems that allow for the generation of good sounding short snippets, yet, these generated…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Zixun Guo , Makris Dimos , Herremans Dorien

To solve a new task from minimal experience, it is essential to effectively reuse knowledge from previous tasks, a problem known as meta-learning. Compositional solutions, where common elements of computation are flexibly recombined into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Jacob J. W. Bakermans , Pablo Tano , Reidar Riveland , Charles Findling , Alexandre Pouget

One of the challenges of the Optical Music Recognition task is to transcript the symbols of the camera-captured images into digital music notations. Previous end-to-end model which was developed as a Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Aozhi Liu , Lipei Zhang , Yaqi Mei , Baoqiang Han , Zifeng Cai , Zhaohua Zhu , Jing Xiao

In real-world recommender systems, such as in the music domain, repeat consumption is a common phenomenon where users frequently listen to a small set of preferred songs or artists repeatedly. The key point of modeling repeat consumption is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Sunhao Dai , Changle Qu , Sirui Chen , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu

There is mounting evidence that existing neural network models, in particular the very popular sequence-to-sequence architecture, struggle to systematically generalize to unseen compositions of seen components. We demonstrate that one of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Hao Zheng , Mirella Lapata

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

At present, neural network-based models, including transformers, struggle to generate memorable and readily comprehensible music from unified and repetitive musical material due to a lack of understanding of musical structure. Consequently,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shangxuan Luo , Joshua Reiss