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This report presents PixelBytes, an approach for unified multimodal representation learning. Drawing inspiration from sequence models like Image Transformers, PixelCNN, and Mamba-Bytes, we explore integrating text, audio, action-state, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Fabien Furfaro

Multimodal generative models have shown remarkable progress in single-modality video and audio synthesis, yet truly joint audio-video generation remains an open challenge. In this paper, I explore four key contributions to advance this…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Alejandro Paredes La Torre

In this work, we propose a permutation invariant language model, SymphonyNet, as a solution for symbolic symphony music generation. We propose a novel Multi-track Multi-instrument Repeatable (MMR) representation for symphonic music and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Jiafeng Liu , Yuanliang Dong , Zehua Cheng , Xinran Zhang , Xiaobing Li , Feng Yu , Maosong Sun

Diffusion models have shown promising results in cross-modal generation tasks involving audio and music, such as text-to-sound and text-to-music generation. These text-controlled music generation models typically focus on generating music…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Tornike Karchkhadze , Mohammad Rasool Izadi , Ke Chen , Gerard Assayag , Shlomo Dubnov

The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) has proven to be an effective model for producing semantically meaningful latent representations for natural data. However, it has thus far seen limited application to sequential data, and, as we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Adam Roberts , Jesse Engel , Colin Raffel , Curtis Hawthorne , Douglas Eck

The recent surge in the popularity of diffusion models for image synthesis has attracted new attention to their potential for generation tasks in other domains. However, their applications to symbolic music generation remain largely…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jincheng Zhang , György Fazekas , Charalampos Saitis

Diffusion models are a class of generative models that have been recently used for speech enhancement with remarkable success but are computationally expensive at inference time. Therefore, these models are impractical for processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Bunlong Lay , Rostislav Makarov , Timo Gerkmann

Modeling ultra-long user behavior sequences is critical for capturing both long- and short-term preferences in industrial recommender systems. Existing solutions typically rely on two-stage retrieval or indirect modeling paradigms, incuring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Zheng Chai , Qin Ren , Xijun Xiao , Huizhi Yang , Bo Han , Sijun Zhang , Di Chen , Hui Lu , Wenlin Zhao , Lele Yu , Xionghang Xie , Shiru Ren , Xiang Sun , Yaocheng Tan , Peng Xu , Yuchao Zheng , Di Wu

We present MIDI-LLM, an LLM for generating multitrack MIDI music from free-form text prompts. Our approach expands a text LLM's vocabulary to include MIDI tokens, and uses a two-stage training recipe to endow text-to-MIDI abilities. By…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Shih-Lun Wu , Yoon Kim , Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang

We present and release MIDI-GPT, a generative system based on the Transformer architecture that is designed for computer-assisted music composition workflows. MIDI-GPT supports the infilling of musical material at the track and bar level,…

In recent years, deep learning has achieved formidable results in creative computing. When it comes to music, one viable model for music generation are Transformer based models. However, while transformers models are popular for music…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Gabriel Souza , Flavio Figueiredo , Alexei Machado , Deborah Guimarães

We explore the use of neural synthesis for acoustic guitar from string-wise MIDI input. We propose four different systems and compare them with both objective metrics and subjective evaluation against natural audio and a sample-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Nicolas Jonason , Xin Wang , Erica Cooper , Lauri Juvela , Bob L. T. Sturm , Junichi Yamagishi

We tackle the task of long-form music generation--particularly the challenging \textbf{lyrics-to-song} problem--by introducing YuE, a family of open foundation models based on the LLaMA2 architecture. Specifically, YuE scales to trillions…

Time series forecasting is widely used in the fields of equipment life cycle forecasting, weather forecasting, traffic flow forecasting, and other fields. Recently, some scholars have tried to apply Transformer to time series forecasting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Benhan Li , Shengdong Du , Tianrui Li

AI-based music generation has made significant progress in recent years. However, generating symbolic music that is both long-structured and expressive remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose PerceiverS (Segmentation and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yungang Yi , Weihua Li , Matthew Kuo , Quan Bai

Attempts to use generative models for music generation have been common in recent years, and some of them have achieved good results. Pieces generated by some of these models are almost indistinguishable from those being composed by human…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-26 You Li , Zhuowen Lin

Transformers are the cornerstone of modern large language models, but their quadratic computational complexity limits efficiency in long-sequence processing. Recent advancements in Mamba, a state space model (SSM) with linear complexity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yixing Li , Ruobing Xie , Zhen Yang , Xingwu Sun , Shuaipeng Li , Weidong Han , Zhanhui Kang , Yu Cheng , Chengzhong Xu , Di Wang , Jie Jiang

In this research, I explore advanced deep learning methodologies to forecast the outcomes of the 2025 NCAA Division 1 Men's and Women's Basketball tournaments. Leveraging historical NCAA game data, I implement two sophisticated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Md Imtiaz Habib

In this paper, we summarize the application of transformer and its streamable variant, Emformer based acoustic model for large scale speech recognition applications. We compare the transformer based acoustic models with their LSTM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yongqiang Wang , Yangyang Shi , Frank Zhang , Chunyang Wu , Julian Chan , Ching-Feng Yeh , Alex Xiao

In recent decades, neuroscientific and psychological research has traced direct relationships between taste and auditory perceptions. This article explores multimodal generative models capable of converting taste information into music,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Matteo Spanio , Massimiliano Zampini , Antonio Rodà , Franco Pierucci