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Hierarchical planning is a powerful approach to model long sequences structurally. Aside from considering hierarchies in the temporal structure of music, this paper explores an even more important aspect: concept hierarchy, which involves…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Qi He , Gus Xia , Ziyu Wang

We present the Melody-Guided Music Generation (MG2) model, a novel approach using melody to guide the text-to-music generation that, despite a simple method and limited resources, achieves excellent performance. Specifically, we first align…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shaopeng Wei , Manzhen Wei , Haoyu Wang , Yu Zhao , Gang Kou

Lyrics-to-melody generation is an interesting and challenging topic in AI music research field. Due to the difficulty of learning the correlations between lyrics and melody, previous methods suffer from low generation quality and lack of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Zhe Zhang , Yi Yu , Atsuhiro Takasu

The use of deep learning to solve problems in literary arts has been a recent trend that has gained a lot of attention and automated generation of music has been an active area. This project deals with the generation of music using raw…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Vasanth Kalingeri , Srikanth Grandhe

With recent breakthroughs in artificial neural networks, deep generative models have become one of the leading techniques for computational creativity. Despite very promising progress on image and short sequence generation, symbolic music…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Ke Chen , Weilin Zhang , Shlomo Dubnov , Gus Xia , Wei Li

In addition to traditional tasks such as prediction, classification and translation, deep learning is receiving growing attention as an approach for music generation, as witnessed by recent research groups such as Magenta at Google and CTRL…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Jean-Pierre Briot , François Pachet

Existing symbolic music generation methods usually utilize discriminator to improve the quality of generated music via global perception of music. However, considering the complexity of information in music, such as rhythm and melody, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zhedong Zhang , Liang Li , Jiehua Zhang , Zhenghui Hu , Hongkui Wang , Chenggang Yan , Jian Yang , Yuankai Qi

Deep Learning models have shown very promising results in automatically composing polyphonic music pieces. However, it is very hard to control such models in order to guide the compositions towards a desired goal. We are interested in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Lucas N. Ferreira , Jim Whitehead

To train a machine learning model is necessary to take numerous decisions about many options for each process involved, in the field of sequence generation and more specifically of music composition, the nature of the problem helps to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Sebastian Garcia-Valencia , Alejandro Betancourt , Juan G. Lalinde-Pulido

Music arrangement generation is a subtask of automatic music generation, which involves reconstructing and re-conceptualizing a piece with new compositional techniques. Such a generation process inevitably requires reference from the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Ziyu Wang , Ke Chen , Junyan Jiang , Yiyi Zhang , Maoran Xu , Shuqi Dai , Xianbin Gu , Gus Xia

Neural networks and deep learning are often deployed for the sake of the most comprehensive music generation with as little involvement as possible from the human musician. Implementations in aid of, or being a tool for, music practitioners…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Alex Wastnidge

Symbolic music generation has attracted increasing attention, while most methods focus on generating short piece (mostly less than 8 bars, and up to 32 bars). Generating long music calls for effective expression of the coherent music…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Ning Zhang , Junchi Yan

Lyric-to-melody generation is an important task in automatic songwriting. Previous lyric-to-melody generation systems usually adopt end-to-end models that directly generate melodies from lyrics, which suffer from several issues: 1) lack of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Zeqian Ju , Peiling Lu , Xu Tan , Rui Wang , Chen Zhang , Songruoyao Wu , Kejun Zhang , Xiangyang Li , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

We introduce materiomusic as a generative framework linking the hierarchical structures of matter with the compositional logic of music. Across proteins, spider webs and flame dynamics, vibrational and architectural principles recur as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Markus J. Buehler

We describe a proof-of-principle implementation of a system for drawing melodies that abstracts away from a note-level input representation via melodic contours. The aim is to allow users to express their musical intentions without…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Tashi Namgyal , Peter Flach , Raul Santos-Rodriguez

Repetition is a basic indicator of musical structure. This study introduces new algorithms for identifying musical phrases based on repetition. Phrases combine to form sections yielding a two-level hierarchical structure. Automatically…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Shuqi Dai , Huan Zhang , Roger B. Dannenberg

Recent advances in music generation produce impressive samples, however, practical creation still lacks two key capabilities: composer-style structural editing and minute-scale coherence. We present MusicWeaver, a framework for generating…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xuanchen Wang , Heng Wang , Weidong Cai

While recent generative models can produce engaging music, their utility is limited. The variation in the music is often left to chance, resulting in compositions that lack structure. Pieces extending beyond a minute can become incoherent…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Lilac Atassi

Melody reduction, as an abstract representation of musical compositions, serves not only as a tool for music analysis but also as an intermediate representation for structured music generation. Prior computational theories, such as the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ziyu Wang , Yuxuan Wu , Roger B. Dannenberg , Gus Xia

Music contains hierarchical structures beyond beats and measures. While hierarchical structure annotations are helpful for music information retrieval and computer musicology, such annotations are scarce in current digital music databases.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Junyan Jiang , Daniel Chin , Yixiao Zhang , Gus Xia