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We introduce the Scratchpad Mechanism, a novel addition to the sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) neural network architecture and demonstrate its effectiveness in improving the overall fluency of seq2seq models for natural language generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Ryan Y. Benmalek , Madian Khabsa , Suma Desu , Claire Cardie , Michele Banko

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 buildup and release of a sense of tension is one of the most essential aspects of the process of listening to music. A veridical computational model of perceived musical tension would be an important ingredient for many music…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Ali Nikrang , David R. W. Sears , Gerhard Widmer

Recent advances in generative models have made it possible to create high-quality, coherent music, with some systems delivering production-level output. Yet, most existing models focus solely on generating music from scratch, limiting their…

We propose MoodNet - A Deep Convolutional Neural Network based architecture to effectively predict the emotion associated with a piece of music given its audio and lyrical content.We evaluate different architectures consisting of varying…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-15 Aniruddha Bhattacharya , K. V. Kadambari

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

At present, neural network models show powerful sequence prediction ability and are used in many automatic composition models. In comparison, the way humans compose music is very different from it. Composers usually start by creating…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Yutian Wang , Wanyin Yang , Zhenrong Dai , Yilong Zhang , Kun Zhao , Hui Wang

Structure perception is a fundamental aspect of music cognition in humans. Historically, the hierarchical organization of music into structures served as a narrative device for conveying meaning, creating expectancy, and evoking emotions in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Nicolas Lazzari , Andrea Poltronieri , Valentina Presutti

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

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

This paper conducts an intricate analysis of musical emotions and trends using Spotify music data, encompassing audio features and valence scores extracted through the Spotipi API. Employing regression modeling, temporal analysis, mood…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Shruti Dutta , Shashwat Mookherjee

The ability to automatically generate music that appropriately matches an arbitrary input track is a challenging task. We present a novel controllable system for generating single stems to accompany musical mixes of arbitrary length. At the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Marco Pasini , Maarten Grachten , Stefan Lattner

This paper presents an architecture for generating music for video games based on the Transformer deep learning model. Our motivation is to be able to customize the generation according to the taste of the player, who can select a corpus of…

This work introduces a new music generation system, called AffectMachine-Classical, that is capable of generating affective Classic music in real-time. AffectMachine was designed to be incorporated into biofeedback systems (such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Kat R. Agres , Adyasha Dash , Phoebe Chua

Recent advances in text-to-music models have enabled coherent music generation from text prompts, yet fine-grained emotional control remains unresolved. We introduce LARA-Gen, a framework for continuous emotion control that aligns the…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Jiahao Mei , Xuenan Xu , Zeyu Xie , Zihao Zheng , Ye Tao , Yue Ding , Mengyue Wu

Models for affective text generation have shown a remarkable progress, but they commonly rely only on basic emotion theories or valance/arousal values as conditions. This is appropriate when the goal is to create explicit emotion statements…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Yarik Menchaca Resendiz , Roman Klinger

Multi-modal music generation, using multiple modalities like text, images, and video alongside musical scores and audio as guidance, is an emerging research area with broad applications. This paper reviews this field, categorizing music…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Shuyu Li , Shulei Ji , Zihao Wang , Songruoyao Wu , Jiaxing Yu , Kejun Zhang

We propose a novel approach for the generation of polyphonic music based on LSTMs. We generate music in two steps. First, a chord LSTM predicts a chord progression based on a chord embedding. A second LSTM then generates polyphonic music…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Gino Brunner , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer , Jonas Wiesendanger

Automatic music transcription converts audio recordings into symbolic representations, facilitating music analysis, retrieval, and generation. A musical note is characterized by pitch, onset, and offset in an audio domain, whereas it is…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Leekyung Kim , Sungwook Jeon , Wan Heo , Jonghun Park

The majority of current systems for end-to-end dialog generation focus on response quality without an explicit control over the affective content of the responses. In this paper, we present an affect-driven dialog system, which generates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Pierre Colombo , Wojciech Witon , Ashutosh Modi , James Kennedy , Mubbasir Kapadia