English
Related papers

Related papers: Generative Melody Composition with Human-in-the-Lo…

200 papers

We propose a probabilistic framework for developing computational models of biological neural systems. In this framework, physiological recordings are viewed as discrete-time partial observations of an underlying continuous-time stochastic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-10 Ahmed ElGazzar , Marcel van Gerven

Many real-world tasks require optimizing expensive black-box functions accessible only through noisy evaluations, a setting commonly addressed with Bayesian optimization (BO). While Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) have recently emerged as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Farhad Mirkarimi

Many real-world problems can be phrased as a multi-objective optimization problem, where the goal is to identify the best set of compromises between the competing objectives. Multi-objective Bayesian optimization (BO) is a sample efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Ben Tu , Axel Gandy , Nikolas Kantas , Behrang Shafei

We present the Melody-Guided Music Generation (MG2) model, a novel approach using melody to guide the text-to-music generation that, despite a simple method and limited resources, achieves excellent performance. Specifically, we first align…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shaopeng Wei , Manzhen Wei , Haoyu Wang , Yu Zhao , Gang Kou

Bayesian optimization (BO) has established itself as a leading strategy for efficiently optimizing expensive-to-evaluate functions. Existing BO methods mostly rely on Gaussian process (GP) surrogate models and are not applicable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Yongsheng Mei , Mahdi Imani , Tian Lan

Bayesian optimization (BO) has emerged during the last few years as an effective approach to optimizing black-box functions where direct queries of the objective are expensive. In this paper we consider the case where direct access to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-13 Javier Gonzalez , Zhenwen Dai , Andreas Damianou , Neil D. Lawrence

Music accompaniment generation is a crucial aspect in the composition process. Deep neural networks have made significant strides in this field, but it remains a challenge for AI to effectively incorporate human emotions to create beautiful…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Qi Wang , Shubing Zhang , Li Zhou

In recent years, neural networks have been used to generate symbolic melodies. However, the long-term structure in the melody has posed great difficulty for designing a good model. In this paper, we present a hierarchical recurrent neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Jian Wu , Changran Hu , Yulong Wang , Xiaolin Hu , Jun Zhu

In this paper, we propose a technique to address the most challenging aspect of algorithmic songwriting process, which enables the human community to discover original lyrics, and melodies suitable for the generated lyrics. The proposed…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Gurunath Reddy Madhumani , Yi Yu , Florian Harscoët , Simon Canales , Suhua Tang

Investigating the cognitive and neural mechanisms involved with face processing is a fundamental task in modern neuroscience and psychology. To date, the majority of such studies have focused on the use of pre-selected stimuli. The absence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Pedro F. da Costa , Romy Lorenz , Ricardo Pio Monti , Emily Jones , Robert Leech

This work introduces the M6(GPT)3 composer system, capable of generating complete, multi-minute musical compositions with complex structures in any time signature, in the MIDI domain from input descriptions in natural language. The system…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jakub Poćwiardowski , Mateusz Modrzejewski , Marek S. Tatara

The generation of lyrics tightly connected to accompanying melodies involves establishing a mapping between musical notes and syllables of lyrics. This process requires a deep understanding of music constraints and semantic patterns at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Zhe Zhang , Karol Lasocki , Yi Yu , Atsuhiro Takasu

The ability to accelerate the design of biological sequences can have a substantial impact on the progress of the medical field. The problem can be framed as a global optimization problem where the objective is an expensive black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Leo Feng , Padideh Nouri , Aneri Muni , Yoshua Bengio , Pierre-Luc Bacon

Despite advances in deep algorithmic music generation, evaluation of generated samples often relies on human evaluation, which is subjective and costly. We focus on designing a homogeneous, objective framework for evaluating samples of…

Generative AI is increasingly transforming creativity into a hybrid human-artificial process, but its impact on the quality and diversity of creative output remains unclear. We study collective creativity using a controlled word-guessing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Chenyi Li , Raja Marjieh , Haoyu Hu , Mark Steyvers , Katherine M. Collins , Ilia Sucholutsky , Nori Jacoby

Bayesian optimization (BO) with preference-based feedback has recently garnered significant attention due to its emerging applications. We refer to this problem as Bayesian Optimization from Human Feedback (BOHF), which differs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Aya Kayal , Sattar Vakili , Laura Toni , Da-shan Shiu , Alberto Bernacchia

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

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is an effective method for optimizing expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions with a wide range of applications for example in robotics, system design and parameter optimization. However, scaling BO to problems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Lukas P. Fröhlich , Edgar D. Klenske , Christian G. Daniel , Melanie N. Zeilinger

We propose an application of sequence generative adversarial networks (SeqGAN), which are generative adversarial networks for discrete sequence generation, for creating polyphonic musical sequences. Instead of a monophonic melody generation…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Sang-gil Lee , Uiwon Hwang , Seonwoo Min , Sungroh Yoon

Bayesian optimal experimental design has immense potential to inform the collection of data so as to subsequently enhance our understanding of a variety of processes. However, a major impediment is the difficulty in evaluating optimal…

Computation · Statistics 2018-03-14 David J. Price , Nigel G. Bean , Joshua V. Ross , Jonathan Tuke