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Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic models have emerged as simple yet very powerful generative models. Unlike other generative models, diffusion models do not suffer from mode collapse or require a discriminator to generate high-quality…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Lilac Atassi

Recent large-scale generative models learned on big data are capable of synthesizing incredible images yet suffer from limited controllability. This work offers a new generation paradigm that allows flexible control of the output image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Lianghua Huang , Di Chen , Yu Liu , Yujun Shen , Deli Zhao , Jingren Zhou

Although a variety of transformers have been proposed for symbolic music generation in recent years, there is still little comprehensive study on how specific design choices affect the quality of the generated music. In this work, we…

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

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in research related to the detection of piano pedals from audio signals in the music information retrieval community. However, to our best knowledge, recent generative models for symbolic music…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Joann Ching , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Autoregressive models are now capable of generating high-quality minute-long expressive MIDI piano performances. Even though this progress suggests new tools to assist music composition, we observe that generative algorithms are still not…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Gaëtan Hadjeres , Léopold Crestel

Despite progress in controllable symbolic music generation, data scarcity remains a challenge for certain control modalities. Composer-style music generation is a prime example, as only a few pieces per composer are available, limiting the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Mingyang Yao , Ke Chen

The creation of long melody sequences requires effective expression of coherent musical structure. However, there is no clear representation of musical structure. Recent works on music generation have suggested various approaches to deal…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Yi Zou , Pei Zou , Yi Zhao , Kaixiang Zhang , Ran Zhang , Xiaorui Wang

Expert musicians can mould a musical piece to convey specific emotions that they intend to communicate. In this paper, we place a mid-level features based music emotion model in this performer-to-listener communication scenario, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Shreyan Chowdhury , Gerhard Widmer

This paper presents a novel approach to neural instrument sound synthesis using a two-stage semi-supervised learning framework capable of generating pitch-accurate, high-quality music samples from an expressive timbre latent space. Existing…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Christian Limberg , Fares Schulz , Zhe Zhang , Stefan Weinzierl

The creativity of classical music arises not only from composers who craft the musical sheets but also from performers who interpret the static notations with expressive nuances. This paper addresses the challenge of generating classical…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Jing Luo , Xinyu Yang , Jie Wei

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

Composition is a cornerstone of visual aesthetics, influencing the appeal of an image. While its principles operate independently of specific content, in practice, composition is often coupled with semantics. As a result, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Kai Zou , Zhiwei Zhao , Bin Liu , Nenghai Yu

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

Learning musical structures and composition patterns is necessary for both music generation and understanding, but current methods do not make uniform use of learned features to generate and comprehend music simultaneously. In this paper,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xiao Liang , Zijian Zhao , Weichao Zeng , Yutong He , Fupeng He , Yiyi Wang , Chengying Gao

Symbolic Music Generation relies on the contextual representation capabilities of the generative model, where the most prevalent approach is the Transformer-based model. The learning of musical context is also related to the structural…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Guowei Wu , Shipei Liu , Xiaoya Fan

We present a statistical-modelling method for piano reduction, i.e. converting an ensemble score into piano scores, that can control performance difficulty. While previous studies have focused on describing the condition for playable piano…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Eita Nakamura , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

Expressive music performance rendering involves interpreting symbolic scores with variations in timing, dynamics, articulation, and instrument-specific techniques, resulting in performances that capture musical can emotional intent. We…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-12 Huan Zhang , Akira Maezawa , Simon Dixon

Music performance synthesis aims to synthesize a musical score into a natural performance. In this paper, we borrow recent advances in text-to-speech synthesis and present the Deep Performer -- a novel system for score-to-audio music…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Hao-Wen Dong , Cong Zhou , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Julian McAuley

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence have significantly enhanced generative tasks involving music and images, employing both unimodal and multimodal approaches. This research develops a model capable of generating music that…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Tanisha Hisariya , Huan Zhang , Jinhua Liang