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Despite recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), their ability to understand and interact with music remains limited. Music understanding requires grounded reasoning over symbolic scores and expressive performance audio,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Qihao Zhao , Yunqi Cao , Yangyu Huang , Hui Yi Leong , Fan Zhang , Kim-Hui Yap , Wei Hu

Text generation in image-based platforms, particularly for music-related content, requires precise control over text styles and the incorporation of emotional expression. However, existing approaches often need help to control the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Yuelyu Ji , Yuheng Song , Wei Wang , Ruoyi Xu , Zhongqian Xie , Huiyun Liu

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

Music recommendation for videos attracts growing interest in multi-modal research. However, existing systems focus primarily on content compatibility, often ignoring the users' preferences. Their inability to interact with users for further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Zhikang Dong , Bin Chen , Xiulong Liu , Pawel Polak , Peng Zhang

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

Subword tokenization has been widely successful in text-based natural language processing (NLP) tasks with Transformer-based models. As Transformer models become increasingly popular in symbolic music-related studies, it is imperative to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Adarsh Kumar , Pedro Sarmento

This paper presents a new approach for controlling emotion in symbolic music generation with Monte Carlo Tree Search. We use Monte Carlo Tree Search as a decoding mechanism to steer the probability distribution learned by a language model…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Lucas N. Ferreira , Lili Mou , Jim Whitehead , Levi H. S. Lelis

In this work, we introduce musif, a Python package that facilitates the automatic extraction of features from symbolic music scores. The package includes the implementation of a large number of features, which have been developed by a team…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ana Llorens , Federico Simonetta , Martín Serrano , Álvaro Torrente

Music codecs are a vital aspect of audio codec research, and ultra low-bitrate compression holds significant importance for music transmission and generation. Due to the complexity of music backgrounds and the richness of vocals, solely…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Yaoxun Xu , Hangting Chen , Jianwei Yu , Wei Tan , Rongzhi Gu , Shun Lei , Zhiwei Lin , Zhiyong Wu

Existing work in automatic music generation has mostly focused on end-to-end systems that generate either entire compositions or continuations of pieces, which are difficult for composers to iterate on. The area of computer-assisted…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Christian Zhou-Zheng , Philippe Pasquier

Generating music has a few notable differences from generating images and videos. First, music is an art of time, necessitating a temporal model. Second, music is usually composed of multiple instruments/tracks with their own temporal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-06 Hao-Wen Dong , Wen-Yi Hsiao , Li-Chia Yang , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Symbolic music generation aims to create musical notes, which can help users compose music, such as generating target instrument tracks based on provided source tracks. In practical scenarios where there's a predefined ensemble of tracks…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Ang Lv , Xu Tan , Peiling Lu , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang , Jiang Bian , Rui Yan

Amid the rising intersection of generative AI and human artistic processes, this study probes the critical yet less-explored terrain of alignment in human-centric automatic song composition. We propose a novel task of Colloquial…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Zihao Wang , Haoxuan Liu , Jiaxing Yu , Tao Zhang , Yan Liu , Kejun Zhang

Multimodal music generation aims to produce music from diverse input modalities, including text, videos, and images. Existing methods use a common embedding space for multimodal fusion. Despite their effectiveness in other modalities, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Baisen Wang , Le Zhuo , Zhaokai Wang , Chenxi Bao , Wu Chengjing , Xuecheng Nie , Jiao Dai , Jizhong Han , Yue Liao , Si Liu

Symbolic music understanding, which refers to the understanding of music from the symbolic data (e.g., MIDI format, but not audio), covers many music applications such as genre classification, emotion classification, and music pieces…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Mingliang Zeng , Xu Tan , Rui Wang , Zeqian Ju , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

Generating music with deep neural networks has been an area of active research in recent years. While the quality of generated samples has been steadily increasing, most methods are only able to exert minimal control over the generated…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Dimitri von Rütte , Luca Biggio , Yannic Kilcher , Thomas Hofmann

Evaluating generative models remains a fundamental challenge, particularly when the goal is to reflect human preferences. In this paper, we use music generation as a case study to investigate the gap between automatic evaluation metrics and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Huan Zhang , Jinhua Liang , Huy Phan , Wenwu Wang , Emmanouil Benetos

With the rise of artificial intelligence in recent years, there has been a rapid increase in its application towards creative domains, including music. There exist many systems built that apply machine learning approaches to the problem of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Renaud Bougueng Tchemeube , Jeff Ens , Philippe Pasquier

How does textual representation of audio relate to the Large Language Model's (LLMs) learning about the audio world? This research investigates the extent to which LLMs can be prompted to generate audio, despite their primary training in…

In this paper, we propose and investigate the use of neural audio codec language models for the automatic generation of sample-based musical instruments based on text or reference audio prompts. Our approach extends a generative audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Shahan Nercessian , Johannes Imort , Ninon Devis , Frederik Blang