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Attention mechanism has been extensively integrated within mainstream neural network architectures, such as Transformers and graph attention networks. Yet, its underlying working principles remain somewhat elusive. What is its essence? Are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Tianyu Ruan , Shihua Zhang

Music similarity search is useful for a variety of creative tasks such as replacing one music recording with another recording with a similar "feel", a common task in video editing. For this task, it is typically necessary to define a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Jongpil Lee , Nicholas J. Bryan , Justin Salamon , Zeyu Jin , Juhan Nam

In this paper, we propose a novel architecture called Composition Attention Grammars (CAGs) that recursively compose subtrees into a single vector representation with a composition function, and selectively attend to previous structural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ryo Yoshida , Yohei Oseki

This paper proposes a novel sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model with a musical note position-aware attention mechanism for singing voice synthesis (SVS). A seq2seq modeling approach that can simultaneously perform acoustic and temporal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Yukiya Hono , Kei Hashimoto , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

Current music similarity models typically compute a single, monolithic score, entangling distinct musical dimensions like melody, rhythm, and timbre. This limits user control and interpretability, making it impossible to execute nuanced…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Abhinaba Roy , Junyi Liang , Dorien Herremans

We introduce materiomusic as a generative framework linking the hierarchical structures of matter with the compositional logic of music. Across proteins, spider webs and flame dynamics, vibrational and architectural principles recur as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Markus J. Buehler

Introduction: Music generation is a complex task that has received significant attention in recent years, and deep learning techniques have shown promising results in this field. Objectives: While extensive work has been carried out on…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Roopa Mayya , Vivekanand Venkataraman , Anwesh P R , Narayana Darapaneni

Music is an integral part of human culture, embodying human intelligence and creativity, of which songs compose an essential part. While various aspects of song generation have been explored by previous works, such as singing voice, vocal…

The artist similarity quest has become a crucial subject in social and scientific contexts, driven by the desire to enhance music discovery according to user preferences. Modern research solutions facilitate music discovery according to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Andrea Giuseppe Di Francesco , Giuliano Giampietro , Indro Spinelli , Danilo Comminiello

Music Generation (MG) is an interesting research topic that links the art of music and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The goal is to train an artificial composer to generate infinite, fresh, and pleasurable musical pieces. Music has…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Majid Farzaneh , Rahil Mahdian Toroghi

In this paper we introduce a novel feature augmentation approach for generating structured musical compositions comprising melodies and harmonies. The proposed method augments a connectionist generation model with count-down to song…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Shakeel Raja

Deep learning has rapidly become the state-of-the-art approach for music generation. However, training a deep model typically requires a large training set, which is often not available for specific musical styles. In this paper, we present…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Alisa Liu , Alexander Fang , Gaëtan Hadjeres , Prem Seetharaman , Bryan Pardo

We present SingSong, a system that generates instrumental music to accompany input vocals, potentially offering musicians and non-musicians alike an intuitive new way to create music featuring their own voice. To accomplish this, we build…

While recent generative models can produce engaging music, their utility is limited. The variation in the music is often left to chance, resulting in compositions that lack structure. Pieces extending beyond a minute can become incoherent…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Lilac Atassi

In this paper, we propose a lightweight music-generating model based on variational autoencoder (VAE) with structured attention. Generating music is different from generating text because the melodies with chords give listeners…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Yizhou Zhao , Liang Qiu , Wensi Ai , Feng Shi , Song-Chun Zhu

Composing music for video is essential yet challenging, leading to a growing interest in automating music generation for video applications. Existing approaches often struggle to achieve robust music-video correspondence and generative…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Heda Zuo , Weitao You , Junxian Wu , Shihong Ren , Pei Chen , Mingxu Zhou , Yujia Lu , Lingyun Sun

We present a lightweight latent diffusion model for vocal-conditioned musical accompaniment generation that addresses critical limitations in existing music AI systems. Our approach introduces a novel soft alignment attention mechanism that…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hei Shing Cheung , Boya Zhang , Jonathan H. Chan

In this paper, we propose SinTra, an auto-regressive sequential generative model that can learn from a single multi-track music segment, to generate coherent, aesthetic, and variable polyphonic music of multi-instruments with an arbitrary…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Qingwei Song , Qiwei Sun , Dongsheng Guo , Haiyong Zheng

There are two aspects of machine learning and artificial intelligence: (1) interpreting information, and (2) inventing new useful information. Much advance has been made for (1) with a focus on pattern recognition techniques (e.g.,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Jacob Galajda , Kien Hua

The current wave of deep learning (the hyper-vitamined return of artificial neural networks) applies not only to traditional statistical machine learning tasks: prediction and classification (e.g., for weather prediction and pattern…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Jean-Pierre Briot