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A great number of deep learning based models have been recently proposed for automatic music composition. Among these models, the Transformer stands out as a prominent approach for generating expressive classical piano performance with a…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Yu-Siang Huang , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Autoregressive language models can often identify parallel subproblems, but standard decoding exposes only a single left-to-right output interface. External orchestration methods can launch multiple prompts concurrently, yet they provide no…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Logan Robbins

This paper proposes a novel Transformer-based model for music score infilling, to generate a music passage that fills in the gap between given past and future contexts. While existing infilling approaches can generate a passage that…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Chih-Pin Tan , Alvin W. Y. Su , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Systematic compositionality is an essential mechanism in human language, allowing the recombination of known parts to create novel expressions. However, existing neural models have been shown to lack this basic ability in learning symbolic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Yichen Jiang , Mohit Bansal

Central to the success of Transformers is the attention block, which effectively models global dependencies among input tokens associated to a dataset. However, we theoretically demonstrate that standard attention mechanisms in transformers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hemanth Saratchandran

Music generated by deep learning methods often suffers from a lack of coherence and long-term organization. Yet, multi-scale hierarchical structure is a distinctive feature of music signals. To leverage this information, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Manvi Agarwal , Changhong Wang , Gaël Richard

Existing text-to-music models can produce high-quality audio with great diversity. However, textual prompts alone cannot precisely control temporal musical features such as chords and rhythm of the generated music. To address this…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yun-Han Lan , Wen-Yi Hsiao , Hao-Chung Cheng , Yi-Hsuan Yang

This paper proposes a forward attention method for the sequenceto- sequence acoustic modeling of speech synthesis. This method is motivated by the nature of the monotonic alignment from phone sequences to acoustic sequences. Only the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Li-Rong Dai

Task-conditional architecture offers advantage in parameter efficiency but falls short in performance compared to state-of-the-art multi-decoder methods. How to trade off performance and model parameters is an important and difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Yuxiang Lu , Shalayiding Sirejiding , Yue Ding , Chunlin Wang , Hongtao Lu

In continual learning, solving the catastrophic forgetting problem may make the models fall into the stability-plasticity dilemma. Moreover, inter-task confusion will also occur due to the lack of knowledge exchanges between different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sheng-Kai Huang , Jiun-Feng Chang , Chun-Rong Huang

In the task of generating music, the art factor plays a big role and is a great challenge for AI. Previous work involving adversarial training to produce new music pieces and modeling the compatibility of variety in music (beats, tempo,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Abhinav Kaushal Keshari

Recent advancements in attention mechanisms have replaced recurrent neural networks and its variants for machine translation tasks. Transformer using attention mechanism solely achieved state-of-the-art results in sequence modeling. Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Prakhar Thapak , Prodip Hore

This paper proposes a novel way of doing audio synthesis at the waveform level using Transformer architectures. We propose a deep neural network for generating waveforms, similar to wavenet. This is fully probabilistic, auto-regressive, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Prateek Verma , Chris Chafe

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

Generating multi-instrument music from symbolic music representations is an important task in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). A central but still largely unsolved problem in this context is musically and acoustically informed control in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Ben Maman , Johannes Zeitler , Meinard Müller , Amit H. Bermano

This study introduces a text-conditioned approach to generating drumbeats with Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs). It uses informative conditioning text extracted from training data filenames. By pretraining a text and drumbeat encoder through…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Pushkar Jajoria , James McDermott

In this paper we present a new approach for the generation of multi-instrument symbolic music driven by musical emotion. The principal novelty of our approach centres on conditioning a state-of-the-art transformer based on continuous-valued…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Serkan Sulun , Matthew E. P. Davies , Paula Viana

Representing symbolic music with compound tokens, where each token consists of several different sub-tokens representing a distinct musical feature or attribute, offers the advantage of reducing sequence length. While previous research has…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 HaeJun Yoo , Hao-Wen Dong , Jongmin Jung , Dasaem Jeong

Time series forecasting is crucial for many fields, such as disaster warning, weather prediction, and energy consumption. The Transformer-based models are considered to have revolutionized the field of sequence modeling. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Junlong Tong , Liping Xie , Wankou Yang , Kanjian Zhang

Music enhances video narratives and emotions, driving demand for automatic video-to-music (V2M) generation. However, existing V2M methods relying solely on visual features or supplementary textual inputs generate music in a black-box…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Junxian Wu , Weitao You , Heda Zuo , Dengming Zhang , Pei Chen , Lingyun Sun