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Vector quantization (VQ) transforms continuous image features into discrete representations, providing compressed, tokenized inputs for generative models. However, VQ-based frameworks suffer from several issues, such as non-smooth latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Sicheng Yang , Xing Hu , Qiang Wu , Dawei Yang

In this paper, we investigate the problem of string-based molecular generation via variational autoencoders (VAEs) that have served a popular generative approach for various tasks in artificial intelligence. We propose a simple, yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Kisoo Kwon , Kuhwan Jung , Junghyun Park , Hwidong Na , Jinwoo Shin

The ultimate purpose of generative music AI is music production. The studio-lab, a social form within the art-science branch of cross-disciplinarity, is a way to advance music production with AI music models. During a studio-lab experiment…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Emmanuel Deruty , Maarten Grachten

Generating music medleys is about finding an optimal permutation of a given set of music clips. Toward this goal, we propose a self-supervised learning task, called the music puzzle game, to train neural network models to learn the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-20 Yu-Siang Huang , Szu-Yu Chou , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Notes in a musical piece are building blocks employed in non-random ways to create melodies. It is the "interaction" among a limited amount of notes that allows constructing the variety of musical compositions that have been written in…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Stefano Ferretti

Producing original and arranging existing musical outcomes is an art that takes years of learning and practice to master. Yet, despite the constant advances in the field of AI-powered musical creativity, production of quality musical…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Ivan S. Maksymov

The field of Automatic Music Generation has seen significant progress thanks to the advent of Deep Learning. However, most of these results have been produced by unconditional models, which lack the ability to interact with their users, not…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Pedro Neves , Jose Fornari , João Florindo

This paper presents a novel rule-based approach for generating music by varying existing tunes. We parse each tune to find the Pathway Assembly (PA) [ 1], that is a structure representing all repetitions in the tune. The Sequitur algorithm…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Maziar Kanani , Sean O Leary , James McDermott

Timbre spaces have been used in music perception to study the perceptual relationships between instruments based on dissimilarity ratings. However, these spaces do not generalize to novel examples and do not provide an invertible mapping,…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Philippe Esling , Axel Chemla--Romeu-Santos , Adrien Bitton

Music is an expressive form of communication often used to convey emotion in scenarios where "words are not enough". Part of this information lies in the musical composition where well-defined language exists. However, a significant amount…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Iman Malik , Carl Henrik Ek

In recent years, neural networks have been used to generate symbolic melodies. However, the long-term structure in the melody has posed great difficulty for designing a good model. In this paper, we present a hierarchical recurrent neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Jian Wu , Changran Hu , Yulong Wang , Xiaolin Hu , Jun Zhu

We are entering a new era in which software systems are becoming more and more complex and larger. So, the composition of such systems is becoming infeasible by manual means. To address this challenge, self-organising software models…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Damian Arellanes

While many topics of the learning-based approach to automated music generation are under active research, musical form is under-researched. In particular, recent methods based on deep learning models generate music that, at the largest time…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Lilac Atassi

Symbolic music representation is a fundamental challenge in computational musicology. While grid-based representations effectively preserve pitch-time spatial correspondence, their inherent data sparsity leads to low encoding efficiency.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Lekai Qian , Haoyu Gu , Dehan Li , Boyu Cao , Qi Liu

We introduce anticipation: a method for constructing a controllable generative model of a temporal point process (the event process) conditioned asynchronously on realizations of a second, correlated process (the control process). We…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-29 John Thickstun , David Hall , Chris Donahue , Percy Liang

Most work on musical score models (a.k.a. musical language models) for music transcription has focused on describing the local sequential dependence of notes in musical scores and failed to capture their global repetitive structure, which…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Eita Nakamura , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

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

In recent years, remarkable advancements in artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) have been achieved in the fields of image synthesis and text generation, generating content comparable to that produced by humans. However, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Sida Tian , Can Zhang , Wei Yuan , Wei Tan , Wenjie Zhu

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

In this paper, we investigate using the variable-length infilling (VLI) model, which is originally proposed to infill missing segments, to "prolong" existing musical segments at musical boundaries. Specifically, as a case study, we expand…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Chih-Pin Tan , Chin-Jui Chang , Alvin W. Y. Su , Yi-Hsuan Yang