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Generating multi-instrument music from symbolic music representations is an important task in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). A central but still largely unsolved problem in this context is musically and acoustically informed control in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Ben Maman , Johannes Zeitler , Meinard Müller , Amit H. Bermano

In this work, we define a diffusion-based generative model capable of both music synthesis and source separation by learning the score of the joint probability density of sources sharing a context. Alongside the classic total inference…

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

Training-free guidance enables controlled generation in diffusion and flow models, but most methods rely on gradients and assume differentiable objectives. This work focuses on training-free guidance addressing challenges from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yingqing Guo , Yukang Yang , Hui Yuan , Mengdi Wang

In automatic music generation, a central challenge is to design controls that enable meaningful human-machine interaction. Existing systems often rely on extrinsic inputs such as text prompts or metadata, which do not allow humans to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xiaoyu Yi , Qi He , Gus Xia , Ziyu Wang

Since their introduction, diffusion models have quickly become the prevailing approach to generative modeling in many domains. They can be interpreted as learning the gradients of a time-varying sequence of log-probability density…

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a widely used mechanism for controlling diffusion-based generative models, yet its guidance scale is typically treated as a fixed hyperparameter throughout generation. This static design yields a suboptimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Fan Zhou , Tim Van de Cruys

Sign language transition generation seeks to convert discrete sign language segments into continuous sign videos by synthesizing smooth transitions. However,most existing methods merely concatenate isolated signs, resulting in poor visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jiashu He , Jiayi He , Shengeng Tang , Huixia Ben , Lechao Cheng , Richang Hong

Deep generative models, such as generative adversarial networks and diffusion models, have recently emerged as powerful tools for planning tasks and behavior synthesis in autonomous systems. Various guidance strategies have been introduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Francesco Giacomarra , Mehran Hosseini , Nicola Paoletti , Francesca Cairoli

Controllable text generation is a challenging and meaningful field in natural language generation (NLG). Especially, poetry generation is a typical one with well-defined and strict conditions for text generation which is an ideal playground…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Zhiyuan Hu , Chumin Liu , Yue Feng , Anh Tuan Luu , Bryan Hooi

In recent years, text-to-audio systems have achieved remarkable success, enabling the generation of complete audio segments directly from text descriptions. While these systems also facilitate music creation, the element of human creativity…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Weixuan Yuan , Qadeer Khan , Vladimir Golkov

Generating graph-structured data requires learning the underlying distribution of graphs. Yet, this is a challenging problem, and the previous graph generative methods either fail to capture the permutation-invariance property of graphs or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Jaehyeong Jo , Seul Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

Emerging Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) have become increasingly utilised because of promising results they have achieved in diverse generative tasks with continuous data, such as image and sound synthesis. Nonetheless, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Jincheng Zhang , György Fazekas , Charalampos Saitis

We investigate the problem of modeling symbolic sequences of polyphonic music in a completely general piano-roll representation. We introduce a probabilistic model based on distribution estimators conditioned on a recurrent neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski , Yoshua Bengio , Pascal Vincent

Diffusion models for continuous data gained widespread adoption owing to their high quality generation and control mechanisms. However, controllable diffusion on discrete data faces challenges given that continuous guidance methods do not…

Large language models have made revolutionary progress in generating human-like text, yet their outputs often tend to be generic, exhibiting insufficient structural diversity, which limits personalized expression. Recent advances in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Ruqian Zhang , Yijiao Zhang , Juan Shen , Zhongyi Zhu , Annie Qu

In this paper we present a new approach for the generation of multi-instrument symbolic music driven by musical emotion. The principal novelty of our approach centres on conditioning a state-of-the-art transformer based on continuous-valued…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Serkan Sulun , Matthew E. P. Davies , Paula Viana

Generating realistic simulations is critical for autonomous system applications such as self-driving and human-robot interactions. However, driving simulators nowadays still have difficulty in generating controllable, diverse, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yue Meng , Chuchu fan

In this paper, we propose a novel score-base generative model for unconditional raw audio synthesis. Our proposal builds upon the latest developments on diffusion process modeling with stochastic differential equations, which already…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Simon Rouard , Gaëtan Hadjeres

The Song Generation task aims to synthesize music composed of vocals and accompaniment from given lyrics. While the existing method, Jukebox, has explored this task, its constrained control over the generations often leads to deficiency in…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Shuochen Gao , Shun Lei , Fan Zhuo , Hangyu Liu , Feng Liu , Boshi Tang , Qiaochu Huang , Shiyin Kang , Zhiyong Wu