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Compositionality is believed to be fundamental to intelligence. In humans, it underlies the structure of thought, language, and higher-level reasoning. In AI, compositional representations can enable a powerful form of out-of-distribution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Eric Elmoznino , Thomas Jiralerspong , Yoshua Bengio , Guillaume Lajoie

In the domain of algorithmic music composition, machine learning-driven systems eliminate the need for carefully hand-crafting rules for composition. In particular, the capability of recurrent neural networks to learn complex temporal…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Harish Kumar , Balaraman Ravindran

With the increased sophistication of AI techniques, the application of these systems has been expanding to ever newer fields. Increasingly, these systems are being used in modeling of human aesthetics and creativity, e.g. how humans create…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Vanessa Utz , Steve DiPaola

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…

Digital advances have transformed the face of automatic music generation since its beginnings at the dawn of computing. Despite the many breakthroughs, issues such as the musical tasks targeted by different machines and the degree to which…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Dorien Herremans , Ching-Hua Chuan , Elaine Chew

Music and dance have always co-existed as pillars of human activities, contributing immensely to the cultural, social, and entertainment functions in virtually all societies. Notwithstanding the gradual systematization of music and dance…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Shuang Wu , Zhenguang Li , Shijian Lu , Li Cheng

End-to-end generation of musical audio using deep learning techniques has seen an explosion of activity recently. However, most models concentrate on generating fully mixed music in response to abstract conditioning information. In this…

Music information retrieval distinguishes between low- and high-level descriptions of music. Current generative AI models rely on text descriptions that are higher level than the controls familiar to studio musicians. Pitch strength, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Emmanuel Deruty

By observing the activities and relationships of musicians and sound designers to the activities of creation, performance, publishing and dissemination with artificial intelligence (AI), from two specialized forums between 2022 and 2024,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Arnaud Zeller , Emmanuelle Chevry Pebayle

Music is a potent form of expression that can communicate, accentuate or even create the emotions of an individual or a collective. Both historically and in contemporary experiences, musical expression was and is commonly instrumentalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Abhishek Kaushik , Kayla Rush

Parallel to rapid advancements in foundation model research, the past few years have witnessed a surge in music AI applications. As AI-generated and AI-augmented music become increasingly mainstream, many researchers in the music AI…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Megan Wei , Mateusz Modrzejewski , Aswin Sivaraman , Dorien Herremans

Open AI's language model, GPT-3, has shown great potential for many NLP tasks, with applications in many different domains. In this work we carry out a first study on GPT-3's capability to communicate musical decisions through textual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Stephen James Krol , Maria Teresa Llano , Jon McCormack

Dance and music typically go hand in hand. The complexities in dance, music, and their synchronisation make them fascinating to study from a computational creativity perspective. While several works have looked at generating dance for a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Gunjan Aggarwal , Devi Parikh

Recent advancements have brought generated music closer to human-created compositions, yet evaluating these models remains challenging. While human preference is the gold standard for assessing quality, translating these subjective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Florian Grötschla , Ahmet Solak , Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Roger Wattenhofer

Many machine learning algorithms represent input data with vector embeddings or discrete codes. When inputs exhibit compositional structure (e.g. objects built from parts or procedures from subroutines), it is natural to ask whether this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Jacob Andreas

In this article, we investigate the notion of model-based deep learning in the realm of music information research (MIR). Loosely speaking, we refer to the term model-based deep learning for approaches that combine traditional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Gael Richard , Vincent Lostanlen , Yi-Hsuan Yang , Meinard Müller

Music is a powerful medium for altering the emotional state of the listener. In recent years, with significant advancement in computing capabilities, artificial intelligence-based (AI-based) approaches have become popular for creating…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Adyasha Dash , Kat R. Agres

With the rapid advancement of generative audio models, distinguishing between human-composed and generated music is becoming increasingly challenging. As a response, models for detecting fake music have been proposed. In this work, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tomasz Sroka , Tomasz Wężowicz , Dominik Sidorczuk , Mateusz Modrzejewski

Two modest-sized symbolic corpora of post-tonal and post-metric keyboard music have been constructed, one algorithmic, the other improvised. Deep learning models of each have been trained and largely optimised. Our purpose is to obtain a…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Roger T. Dean , Jamie Forth

Recent machine learning techniques can be modified to produce creative results. Those results did not exist before; it is not a trivial combination of the data which was fed into the machine learning system. The obtained results come in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-15 Martin Thoma