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Deep generative models for symbolic music are typically designed to model temporal dependencies in music so as to predict the next musical event given previous events. In many cases, such models are expected to learn abstract concepts such…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Benjamin Genchel , Ashis Pati , Alexander Lerch

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,…

Standard Transformers have a fixed computational depth, fundamentally limiting their ability to generalize to tasks requiring variable-depth reasoning, such as multi-hop graph traversal or nested logic. We propose a depth-recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hung-Hsuan Chen

Continual learning is essential for real-world deployment when there is a need to quickly adapt the model to new tasks without forgetting knowledge of old tasks. Existing work on continual sequence generation either always reuses existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Yanzhe Zhang , Xuezhi Wang , Diyi Yang

As the basis of generative AI, an autoregressive model requires the generation of a new token depending on all the previously generated tokens, which brings high quality but also restricts the model to generate tokens one by one, forming a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Zixian Huang , Chenxu Niu , Yu Gu , Gengyang Xiao , Xinwei Huang , Gong Cheng

Transformers have transformed modern machine learning, driving breakthroughs in computer vision, natural language processing, and robotics. At the core of their success lies the attention mechanism, which enables the modeling of global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hemanth Saratchandran , Simon Lucey

Transformers are increasingly dominating multi-modal reasoning tasks, such as visual question answering, achieving state-of-the-art results thanks to their ability to contextualize information using the self-attention and co-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Hila Chefer , Shir Gur , Lior Wolf

Recent progress on parse tree encoder for sentence representation learning is notable. However, these works mainly encode tree structures recursively, which is not conducive to parallelization. On the other hand, these works rarely take…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Junhua Ma , Jiajun Li , Yuxuan Liu , Shangbo Zhou , Xue Li

In the scope of drug discovery, the molecular design aims to identify novel compounds from the chemical space where the potential drug-like molecules are estimated to be in the order of 10^60 - 10^100. Since this search task is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Wenlu Wang , Ye Wang , Honggang Zhao , Simone Sciabola

Existing approaches for generating multitrack music with transformer models have been limited in terms of the number of instruments, the length of the music segments and slow inference. This is partly due to the memory requirements of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Hao-Wen Dong , Ke Chen , Shlomo Dubnov , Julian McAuley , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Creating a complex work of art like music necessitates profound creativity. With recent advancements in deep learning and powerful models such as transformers, there has been huge progress in automatic music generation. In an accompaniment…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Rishabh Dahale , Vaibhav Talwadker , Preeti Rao , Prateek Verma

The complex world around us is inherently multimodal and sequential (continuous). Information is scattered across different modalities and requires multiple continuous sensors to be captured. As machine learning leaps towards better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Amir Zadeh , Chengfeng Mao , Kelly Shi , Yiwei Zhang , Paul Pu Liang , Soujanya Poria , Louis-Philippe Morency

The variational auto-encoder has become a leading framework for symbolic music generation, and a popular research direction is to study how to effectively control the generation process. A straightforward way is to control a model using…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Jingwei Zhao , Gus Xia , Ye Wang

The ability to automatically generate music that appropriately matches an arbitrary input track is a challenging task. We present a novel controllable system for generating single stems to accompany musical mixes of arbitrary length. At the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Marco Pasini , Maarten Grachten , Stefan Lattner

Cross-modal audio-visual perception has been a long-lasting topic in psychology and neurology, and various studies have discovered strong correlations in human perception of auditory and visual stimuli. Despite works in computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Lele Chen , Sudhanshu Srivastava , Zhiyao Duan , Chenliang Xu

Transformer is eminently suitable for auto-regressive image synthesis which predicts discrete value from the past values recursively to make up full image. Especially, combined with vector quantised latent representation, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Jonghwa Yim , Minjae Kim

Adapting learning materials to the level of skill of a student is important in education. In the context of music training, one essential ability is sight-reading -- playing unfamiliar scores at first sight -- which benefits from…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Pedro Ramoneda , Masahiro Suzuki , Akira Maezawa , Xavier Serra

We consider the problem of learning high-level controls over the global structure of generated sequences, particularly in the context of symbolic music generation with complex language models. In this work, we present the Transformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Kristy Choi , Curtis Hawthorne , Ian Simon , Monica Dinculescu , Jesse Engel

Text-based audio generation models have limitations as they cannot encompass all the information in audio, leading to restricted controllability when relying solely on text. To address this issue, we propose a novel model that enhances the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Zhifang Guo , Jianguo Mao , Rui Tao , Long Yan , Kazushige Ouchi , Hong Liu , Xiangdong Wang

In this work, we present a generalized formulation of the Transformer algorithm by reinterpreting its core mechanisms within the framework of Path Integral formalism. In this perspective, the attention mechanism is recast as a process that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-02 Won-Gi Paeng , Daesuk Kwon , Kyungwon Jeong , Honggyo Suh