English
Related papers

Related papers: BumbleBee: A Transformer for Music

200 papers

We present a framework for real-time human-AI musical co-performance, in which a latent diffusion model generates instrumental accompaniment in response to a live stream of context audio. The system combines a MAX/MSP front-end-handling…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Tornike Karchkhadze , Shlomo Dubnov

We introduce Jukebox, a model that generates music with singing in the raw audio domain. We tackle the long context of raw audio using a multi-scale VQ-VAE to compress it to discrete codes, and modeling those using autoregressive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-04 Prafulla Dhariwal , Heewoo Jun , Christine Payne , Jong Wook Kim , Alec Radford , Ilya Sutskever

We propose the Multi-Track Music Machine (MMM), a generative system based on the Transformer architecture that is capable of generating multi-track music. In contrast to previous work, which represents musical material as a single…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Jeff Ens , Philippe Pasquier

Transformer-based models are unable to process long sequences due to their self-attention operation, which scales quadratically with the sequence length. To address this limitation, we introduce the Longformer with an attention mechanism…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Iz Beltagy , Matthew E. Peters , Arman Cohan

In this paper, we introduce Foley Music, a system that can synthesize plausible music for a silent video clip about people playing musical instruments. We first identify two key intermediate representations for a successful video to music…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Chuang Gan , Deng Huang , Peihao Chen , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Antonio Torralba

We propose Beat Transformer, a novel Transformer encoder architecture for joint beat and downbeat tracking. Different from previous models that track beats solely based on the spectrogram of an audio mixture, our model deals with demixed…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Jingwei Zhao , Gus Xia , Ye Wang

Polyphonic music generation is still a challenge direction due to its correct between generating melody and harmony. Most of the previous studies used RNN-based models. However, the RNN-based models are hard to establish the relationship…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Jiuyang Zhou , Hong Zhu , Xingping Wang

The automated creation of accurate musical notation from an expressive human performance is a fundamental task in computational musicology. To this end, we present an end-to-end deep learning approach that constructs detailed musical scores…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Tim Beyer , Angela Dai

We propose a timbre conversion model based on the Diffusion architecture de-signed to precisely translate music played by various instruments into piano ver-sions. The model employs a Pitch Encoder and Loudness Encoder to extract pitch and…

Moonbeam is a transformer-based foundation model for symbolic music, pretrained on a large and diverse collection of MIDI data totaling 81.6K hours of music and 18 billion tokens. Moonbeam incorporates music-domain inductive biases by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Zixun Guo , Simon Dixon

This paper is a survey and an analysis of different ways of using deep learning (deep artificial neural networks) to generate musical content. We propose a methodology based on five dimensions for our analysis: Objective - What musical…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Jean-Pierre Briot , Gaëtan Hadjeres , François-David Pachet

While both the data volume and heterogeneity of the digital music content is huge, it has become increasingly important and convenient to build a recommendation or search system to facilitate surfacing these content to the user or consumer…

Recent years have seen the rapid development of large generative models for text; however, much less research has explored the connection between text and another "language" of communication -- music. Music, much like text, can convey…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Flavio Schneider , Ojasv Kamal , Zhijing Jin , Bernhard Schölkopf

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

Most music generation models directly generate a single music mixture. To allow for more flexible and controllable generation, the Multi-Source Diffusion Model (MSDM) has been proposed to model music as a mixture of multiple instrumental…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-18 Zhongweiyang Xu , Debottam Dutta , Yu-Lin Wei , Romit Roy Choudhury

This thesis develops a Transformer model based on Whisper, which extracts melodies and chords from music audio and records them into ABC notation. A comprehensive data processing workflow is customized for ABC notation, including data…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Hongyao Zhang , Bohang Sun

We introduce TimeViper, a hybrid vision-language model designed to tackle challenges of long video understanding. Processing long videos demands both an efficient model architecture and an effective mechanism for handling extended temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Boshen Xu , Zihan Xiao , Jiaze Li , Jianzhong Ju , Zhenbo Luo , Jian Luan , Qin Jin

Conditional music generation offers significant advantages in terms of user convenience and control, presenting great potential in AI-generated content research. However, building conditional generative systems for multitrack popular songs…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jing Luo , Xinyu Yang , Dorien Herremans

While many topics of the learning-based approach to automated music generation are under active research, musical form is under-researched. In particular, recent methods based on deep learning models generate music that, at the largest time…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Lilac Atassi

To apply neural sequence models such as the Transformers to music generation tasks, one has to represent a piece of music by a sequence of tokens drawn from a finite set of pre-defined vocabulary. Such a vocabulary usually involves tokens…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Wen-Yi Hsiao , Jen-Yu Liu , Yin-Cheng Yeh , Yi-Hsuan Yang