English
Related papers

Related papers: Structure-informed Positional Encoding for Music G…

200 papers

This paper presents the Jazz Transformer, a generative model that utilizes a neural sequence model called the Transformer-XL for modeling lead sheets of Jazz music. Moreover, the model endeavors to incorporate structural events present in…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Shih-Lun Wu , Yi-Hsuan Yang

We present a model for capturing musical features and creating novel sequences of music, called the Convolutional Variational Recurrent Neural Network. To generate sequential data, the model uses an encoder-decoder architecture with latent…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Eunjeong Stella Koh , Shlomo Dubnov , Dustin Wright

Compositional generalization, the ability of intelligent models to extrapolate understanding of components to novel compositions, is a fundamental yet challenging facet in AI research, especially within multimodal environments. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Danial Kamali , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Existing automatic music generation approaches that feature deep learning can be broadly classified into two types: raw audio models and symbolic models. Symbolic models, which train and generate at the note level, are currently the more…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Rachel Manzelli , Vijay Thakkar , Ali Siahkamari , Brian Kulis

This study aims to enhance the quality of music generation using Transformers by incorporating meta-information. While Transformer-based approaches are effective at capturing long-term dependencies in musical compositions, the music they…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shinnosuke Taksuka , Hideo Mukai

Polyphonic music generation is still a challenge direction due to its correct between generating melody and harmony. Most of the previous studies used RNN-based models. However, the RNN-based models are hard to establish the relationship…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Jiuyang Zhou , Hong Zhu , Xingping Wang

State-of-the-art symbolic music generation models have recently achieved remarkable output quality, yet explicit control over compositional features, such as tonal tension, remains challenging. We propose a novel approach that integrates a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Maral Ebrahimzadeh , Gilberto Bernardes , Sebastian Stober

Transformers are arguably the main workhorse in recent Natural Language Processing research. By definition a Transformer is invariant with respect to reordering of the input. However, language is inherently sequential and word order is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Philipp Dufter , Martin Schmitt , Hinrich Schütze

In the realm of music AI, arranging rich and structured multi-track accompaniments from a simple lead sheet presents significant challenges. Such challenges include maintaining track cohesion, ensuring long-term coherence, and optimizing…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jingwei Zhao , Gus Xia , Ziyu Wang , Ye Wang

Distances on symbolic musical sequences are needed for a variety of applications, from music retrieval to automatic music generation. These musical sequences belong to a given corpus (or style) and it is obvious that a good distance on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Gaëtan Hadjeres , Frank Nielsen

Structure perception is a fundamental aspect of music cognition in humans. Historically, the hierarchical organization of music into structures served as a narrative device for conveying meaning, creating expectancy, and evoking emotions in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Nicolas Lazzari , Andrea Poltronieri , Valentina Presutti

Music contains hierarchical structures beyond beats and measures. While hierarchical structure annotations are helpful for music information retrieval and computer musicology, such annotations are scarce in current digital music databases.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Junyan Jiang , Daniel Chin , Yixiao Zhang , Gus Xia

Music generation introduces challenging complexities to large language models. Symbolic structures of music often include vertical harmonization as well as horizontal counterpoint, urging various adaptations and enhancements for large-scale…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Seungyeon Rhyu , Kichang Yang , Sungjun Cho , Jaehyeon Kim , Kyogu Lee , Moontae Lee

The first step to apply deep learning techniques for symbolic music understanding is to transform musical pieces (mainly in MIDI format) into sequences of predefined tokens like note pitch, note velocity, and chords. Subsequently, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Jinhao Tian , Zuchao Li , Jiajia Li , Ping Wang

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

Multi-modal music generation, using multiple modalities like text, images, and video alongside musical scores and audio as guidance, is an emerging research area with broad applications. This paper reviews this field, categorizing music…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Shuyu Li , Shulei Ji , Zihao Wang , Songruoyao Wu , Jiaxing Yu , Kejun Zhang

Music auto-tagging is essential for organizing and discovering music in extensive digital libraries. While foundation models achieve exceptional performance in this domain, their outputs often lack interpretability, limiting trust and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Andreas Patakis , Vassilis Lyberatos , Spyridon Kantarelis , Edmund Dervakos , Giorgos Stamou

Despite advances in deep algorithmic music generation, evaluation of generated samples often relies on human evaluation, which is subjective and costly. We focus on designing a homogeneous, objective framework for evaluating samples of…

Two modest-sized symbolic corpora of post-tonal and post-metric keyboard music have been constructed, one algorithmic, the other improvised. Deep learning models of each have been trained and largely optimised. Our purpose is to obtain a…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Roger T. Dean , Jamie Forth

Automatic music generation is an interdisciplinary research topic that combines computational creativity and semantic analysis of music to create automatic machine improvisations. An important property of such a system is allowing the user…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Ke Chen , Gus Xia , Shlomo Dubnov