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Analysing music in the field of machine learning is a very difficult problem with numerous constraints to consider. The nature of audio data, with its very high dimensionality and widely varying scales of structure, is one of the primary…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Tracy Qian , Jackson Kaunismaa , Tony Chung

Audio-to-score alignment aims at generating an accurate mapping between a performance audio and the score of a given piece. Standard alignment methods are based on Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and employ handcrafted features, which cannot be…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Ruchit Agrawal , Simon Dixon

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

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

We present the Melody-Guided Music Generation (MG2) model, a novel approach using melody to guide the text-to-music generation that, despite a simple method and limited resources, achieves excellent performance. Specifically, we first align…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shaopeng Wei , Manzhen Wei , Haoyu Wang , Yu Zhao , Gang Kou

Sampling is a common strategy for generating text from probabilistic models, yet standard ancestral sampling often results in text that is incoherent or ungrammatical. To alleviate this issue, various modifications to a model's sampling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Clara Meister , Tiago Pimentel , Luca Malagutti , Ethan G. Wilcox , Ryan Cotterell

In recent years, prompting has quickly become one of the standard ways of steering the outputs of generative machine learning models, due to its intuitive use of natural language. In this work, we propose a system conditioned on embeddings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Thomas Bott , Florian Lux , Ngoc Thang Vu

Song generation focuses on producing controllable high-quality songs based on various prompts. However, existing methods struggle to generate vocals and accompaniments with prompt-based control and proper alignment. Additionally, they fall…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Yu Zhang , Wenxiang Guo , Changhao Pan , Zhiyuan Zhu , Ruiqi Li , Jingyu Lu , Rongjie Huang , Ruiyuan Zhang , Zhiqing Hong , Ziyue Jiang , Zhou Zhao

We consider the task of text generation in language models with constraints specified in natural language. To this end, we first create a challenging benchmark Cognac that provides as input to the model a topic with example text, along with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Howard Chen , Huihan Li , Danqi Chen , Karthik Narasimhan

Creating music is iterative, requiring varied methods at each stage. However, existing AI music systems fall short in orchestrating multiple subsystems for diverse needs. To address this gap, we introduce Loop Copilot, a novel system that…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yixiao Zhang , Akira Maezawa , Gus Xia , Kazuhiko Yamamoto , Simon Dixon

Recently, there has been a growing interest in the field of controllable Text-to-Speech (TTS). While previous studies have relied on users providing specific style factor values based on acoustic knowledge or selecting reference speeches…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Shengpeng Ji , Jialong Zuo , Minghui Fang , Ziyue Jiang , Feiyang Chen , Xinyu Duan , Baoxing Huai , Zhou Zhao

Controllable generative sequence models with the capability to extract and replicate the style of specific examples enable many applications, including narrating audiobooks in different voices, auto-completing and auto-correcting written…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Ashish Shrivastava , Hema Swetha Koppula , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Oncel Tuzel

Prior work in style-controlled text generation has focused on tasks such as emulating the style of prolific literary authors, producing formal or informal text, and mitigating toxicity of generated text. Plentiful demonstrations of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Aleem Khan , Andrew Wang , Sophia Hager , Nicholas Andrews

Generating realistic drum audio directly from symbolic representations is a challenging task at the intersection of music perception and machine learning. We propose a system that transforms an expressive drum grid, a time-aligned MIDI…

Machine hearing or listening represents an emerging area. Conventional approaches rely on the design of handcrafted features specialized to a specific audio task and that can hardly generalized to other audio fields. For example,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Imad Rida , Romain Hérault , Gilles Gasso

Text-guided sound separation enables flexible audio editing, assistive listening, and open-domain source extraction, but systems such as AudioSep remain too expensive for low-latency edge or codec-mediated deployment. Existing neural audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Adhiraj Banerjee , Vipul Arora

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) has advanced significantly, enabling models to generate vocals with accurate pitch and consistent style. As these capabilities improve, the need for reliable evaluation and optimization becomes increasingly…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Xueyan Li , Yuxin Wang , Mengjie Jiang , Qingzi Zhu , Jiang Zhang , Zoey Kim , Yazhe Niu

Existing subject-driven text-to-image generation models suffer from tedious fine-tuning steps and struggle to maintain both text-image alignment and subject fidelity. For generating compositional subjects, it often encounters problems such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Shengyuan Liu , Bo Wang , Ye Ma , Te Yang , Xipeng Cao , Quan Chen , Han Li , Di Dong , Peng Jiang

We present a fast and high-fidelity method for music generation, based on specified f0 and loudness, such that the synthesized audio mimics the timbre and articulation of a target instrument. The generation process consists of learned…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Michael Michelashvili , Lior Wolf

Controllable text generation systems often leverage control codes to direct various properties of the output like style and length. Inspired by recent work on causal inference for NLP, this paper reveals a previously overlooked flaw in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Junyi Chai , Reid Pryzant , Victor Ye Dong , Konstantin Golobokov , Chenguang Zhu , Yi Liu