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A flexible recommendation and retrieval system requires music similarity in terms of multiple partial elements of musical pieces to allow users to select the element they want to focus on. A method for music similarity learning using…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yuka Hashizume , Li Li , Atsushi Miyashita , Tomoki Toda

We propose string compressibility as a descriptor of temporal structure in audio, for the purpose of determining musical similarity. Our descriptors are based on computing track-wise compression rates of quantised audio features, using…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Peter Foster , Matthias Mauch , Simon Dixon

The process of data interpretation is always based on the implicit introduction of equivalence relations on the set of walks over the database. Every equivalence relation on the set of walks specifies a Markov chain describing the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-15 D. Volchenkov

Measuring similarity between complex objects is a fundamental task in many scientific fields. When objects are represented as graphs, graph similarity/distance measures offer a powerful framework for quantifying structural resemblance.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Matthias Dehmer , Izudin Redžepović , Niko Tratnik , Petra Žigert Pleteršek

Embedding spaces contain interpretable dimensions indicating gender, formality in style, or even object properties. This has been observed multiple times. Such interpretable dimensions are becoming valuable tools in different areas of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Katrin Erk , Marianna Apidianaki

Compositionality in language refers to how much the meaning of some phrase can be decomposed into the meaning of its constituents and the way these constituents are combined. Based on the premise that substitution by synonyms is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Christina Lioma , Niels Dalum Hansen

Graph theory is emerging as a new source of tools for time series analysis. One promising method is to transform a signal into its visibility graph, a representation which captures many interesting aspects of the signal. Here we introduce…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Delia Fano Yela , Dan Stowell , Mark Sandler

We present a technique for estimating the similarity between objects such as movies or foods whose proper representation depends on human perception. Our technique combines a modest number of human similarity assessments to infer a pairwise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Jesse Anderton , Pavel Metrikov , Virgil Pavlu , Javed Aslam

Detecting unusual patterns in graph data is a crucial task in data mining. However, existing methods face challenges in consistently achieving satisfactory performance and often lack interpretability, which hinders our understanding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Yifei Yang , Peng Wang , Xiaofan He , Dongmian Zou

Estimating music piece difficulty is important for organizing educational music collections. This process could be partially automatized to facilitate the educator's role. Nevertheless, the decisions performed by prevalent deep-learning…

We introduce a new discrepancy score between two distributions that gives an indication on their similarity. While much research has been done to determine if two samples come from exactly the same distribution, much less research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-16 Maayan Harel , Shie Mannor

In musical compositions that include vocals, lyrics significantly contribute to artistic expression. Consequently, previous studies have introduced the concept of a recommendation system that suggests lyrics similar to a user's favorites or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Haven Kim , Taketo Akama

This paper proposes a novel method that can replace compression-based dissimilarity measure (CDM) in composer estimation task. The main features of the proposed method are clarity and scalability. First, since the proposed method is…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Ayaka Takamoto , Mitsuo Yoshida , Kyoji Umemura , Yuko Ichikawa

A directed graph, called an M-graph, is attached to every melody. Our chief concern in this paper is to investigate (1) how the positivity of the slope of the M-graph is related to singability of the melody, (2) when the M-graph has a…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2014-06-24 Fumio Hazama

Many tasks in music information retrieval, such as recommendation, and playlist generation for online radio, fall naturally into the query-by-example setting, wherein a user queries the system by providing a song, and the system responds…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2011-05-13 Brian McFee , Luke Barrington , Gert Lanckriet

In this study, the notion of perceptual features is introduced for describing general music properties based on human perception. This is an attempt at rethinking the concept of features, in order to understand the underlying human…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Anders Friberg , Erwin Schoonderwaldt , Anton Hedblad , Marco Fabiani , Anders Elowsson

In this demo we show a novel approach to score following. Instead of relying on some symbolic representation, we are using a multi-modal convolutional neural network to match the incoming audio stream directly to sheet music images. This…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Matthias Dorfer , Andreas Arzt , Sebastian Böck , Amaury Durand , Gerhard Widmer

Recently, the problem of music plagiarism has emerged as an even more pressing social issue. As music information retrieval research advances, there is a growing effort to address issues related to music plagiarism. However, many studies,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Seonghyeon Go , Yumin Kim

To achieve a flexible recommendation and retrieval system, it is desirable to calculate music similarity by focusing on multiple partial elements of musical pieces and allowing the users to select the element they want to focus on. A…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Yuka Hashizume , Li Li , Atsushi Miyashita , Tomoki Toda

Graph similarity measurement, which computes the distance/similarity between two graphs, arises in various graph-related tasks. Recent learning-based methods lack interpretability, as they directly transform interaction information between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Zixun Lan , Binjie Hong , Ye Ma , Fei Ma