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Aligning language models (LMs) with user intent is becoming increasingly relevant to enhance user experience. This calls for designing methods that can allow users to control the properties of the language that LMs generate, for example,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Vinay Samuel , Harshita Diddee , Yiming Zhang , Daphne Ippolito

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled users to provide highly specific music recommendation requests using natural language prompts (e.g. "Can you recommend some old classics for slow dancing?"). In this setup, the…

Recently, Image-to-Music (I2M) generation has garnered significant attention, with potential applications in fields such as gaming, advertising, and multi-modal art creation. However, due to the ambiguous and subjective nature of I2M tasks,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zijian Zhao , Dian Jin , Zijing Zhou

The connection between music and lyrics is far beyond semantic bonds. Conceptual pairs in the two modalities such as rhythm and rhyme, note duration and syllabic stress, and structure correspondence, raise a compelling yet seldom-explored…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-04 Changhong Wang , Michel Olvera , Gaël Richard

Music-to-dance generation aims to synthesize human dance motion conditioned on musical input. Despite recent progress, significant challenges remain due to the semantic gap between music and dance motion, as music offers only abstract cues,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Qing Wang , Xiaohang Yang , Yilan Dong , Naveen Raj Govindaraj , Gregory Slabaugh , Shanxin Yuan

Recent years have seen many audio-domain text-to-music generation models that rely on large amounts of text-audio pairs for training. However, symbolic-domain controllable music generation has lagged behind partly due to the lack of a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Weihan Xu , Julian McAuley , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov , Hao-Wen Dong

This study proposes a system designed to enumerate the process of collaborative composition among humans, using automatic music composition technology. By integrating multiple Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) models, the system provides an…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-07 So Hirawata , Noriko Otani

Recent advances in large pre-trained language models have demonstrated strong results in generating natural languages and significantly improved performances for many natural language generation (NLG) applications such as machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Nanyun Peng

Creating lyrics and melodies for the vocal track in a symbolic format, known as song composition, demands expert musical knowledge of melody, an advanced understanding of lyrics, and precise alignment between them. Despite achievements in…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shuangrui Ding , Zihan Liu , Xiaoyi Dong , Pan Zhang , Rui Qian , Junhao Huang , Conghui He , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

Recent work on controlled text generation has either required attribute-based fine-tuning of the base language model (LM), or has restricted the parameterization of the attribute discriminator to be compatible with the base autoregressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah , Kartik Goyal , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

AI creation, such as poem or lyrics generation, has attracted increasing attention from both industry and academic communities, with many promising models proposed in the past few years. Existing methods usually estimate the outputs based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Qian Cao , Xu Chen , Ruihua Song , Hao Jiang , Guang Yang , Zhao Cao

In this paper, we study a novel task that learns to compose music from natural language. Given the lyrics as input, we propose a melody composition model that generates lyrics-conditional melody as well as the exact alignment between the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Hangbo Bao , Shaohan Huang , Furu Wei , Lei Cui , Yu Wu , Chuanqi Tan , Songhao Piao , Ming Zhou

Text-to-music generation models are now capable of generating high-quality music audio in broad styles. However, text control is primarily suitable for the manipulation of global musical attributes like genre, mood, and tempo, and is less…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Shih-Lun Wu , Chris Donahue , Shinji Watanabe , Nicholas J. Bryan

MusicGen is a music generation language model (LM) that can be conditioned on textual descriptions and melodic features. We introduce MusicGen-Chord, which extends this capability by incorporating chord progression features. This model…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jongmin Jung , Andreas Jansson , Dasaem Jeong

Recently, a variety of neural models have been proposed for lyrics generation. However, most previous work completes the generation process in a single pass with little human intervention. We believe that lyrics creation is a creative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Rongsheng Zhang , Xiaoxi Mao , Le Li , Lin Jiang , Lin Chen , Zhiwei Hu , Yadong Xi , Changjie Fan , Minlie Huang

Recent advances in deep learning have expanded possibilities to generate music, but generating a customizable full piece of music with consistent long-term structure remains a challenge. This paper introduces MusicFrameworks, a hierarchical…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Shuqi Dai , Zeyu Jin , Celso Gomes , Roger B. Dannenberg

Generating music with coherent structure, harmonious instrumental and vocal elements remains a significant challenge in song generation. Existing language models and diffusion-based methods often struggle to balance global coherence with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Chenyu Yang , Shuai Wang , Hangting Chen , Wei Tan , Jianwei Yu , Haizhou Li

Automatic song writing aims to compose a song (lyric and/or melody) by machine, which is an interesting topic in both academia and industry. In automatic song writing, lyric-to-melody generation and melody-to-lyric generation are two…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Zhonghao Sheng , Kaitao Song , Xu Tan , Yi Ren , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang , Tao Qin

The recent rise in capabilities of AI-based music generation tools has created an upheaval in the music industry, necessitating the creation of accurate methods to detect such AI-generated content. This can be done using audio-based…

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences is essential for safe and useful LLMs. Previous works mainly adopt reinforcement learning (RLHF) and direct preference optimization (DPO) with human feedback for alignment.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Tianci Xue , Ziqi Wang , Heng Ji