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Large-scale text-to-music generation models have significantly enhanced music creation capabilities, offering unprecedented creative freedom. However, their ability to collaborate effectively with human musicians remains limited. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yongyi Zang , Yixiao Zhang

Since most of music has repetitive structures from motifs to phrases, repeating musical ideas can be a basic operation for music composition. The basic block that we focus on is conceptualized as loops which are essential ingredients of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Sangjun Han , Hyeongrae Ihm , Moontae Lee , Woohyung Lim

This paper is a survey and an analysis of different ways of using deep learning (deep artificial neural networks) to generate musical content. We propose a methodology based on five dimensions for our analysis: Objective - What musical…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Jean-Pierre Briot , Gaëtan Hadjeres , François-David Pachet

Neural text generation has made tremendous progress in various tasks. One common characteristic of most of the tasks is that the texts are not restricted to some rigid formats when generating. However, we may confront some special text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Piji Li , Haisong Zhang , Xiaojiang Liu , Shuming Shi

Current recommendation systems often tend to overlook emotional context and rely on historical listening patterns or static mood tags. This paper introduces a novel music recommendation framework employing a variant of Wide and Deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Apoorva Chavali , Reeve Menezes

Content creators often use music to enhance their stories, as it can be a powerful tool to convey emotion. In this paper, our goal is to help creators find music to match the emotion of their story. We focus on text-based stories that can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Minz Won , Justin Salamon , Nicholas J. Bryan , Gautham J. Mysore , Xavier Serra

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

Word embedding has become an essential means for text-based information retrieval. Typically, word embeddings are learned from large quantities of general and unstructured text data. However, in the domain of music, the word embedding may…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-24 SeungHeon Doh , Jongpil Lee , Dasaem Jeong , Juhan Nam

We present and release MIDI-GPT, a generative system based on the Transformer architecture that is designed for computer-assisted music composition workflows. MIDI-GPT supports the infilling of musical material at the track and bar level,…

Conditional music generation offers significant advantages in terms of user convenience and control, presenting great potential in AI-generated content research. However, building conditional generative systems for multitrack popular songs…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jing Luo , Xinyu Yang , Dorien Herremans

Song generation is regarded as the most challenging problem in music AIGC; nonetheless, existing approaches have yet to fully overcome four persistent limitations: controllability, generalizability, perceptual quality, and duration. We…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Tongxi Wang , Yang Yu , Qing Wang , Junlang Qian

Symbolic music generation faces a fundamental trade-off between efficiency and quality. Fine-grained tokenizations achieve strong coherence but incur long sequences and high complexity, while compact tokenizations improve efficiency at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ting-Kang Wang , Chih-Pin Tan , Yi-Hsuan Yang

In this work, we propose a permutation invariant language model, SymphonyNet, as a solution for symbolic symphony music generation. We propose a novel Multi-track Multi-instrument Repeatable (MMR) representation for symphonic music and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Jiafeng Liu , Yuanliang Dong , Zehua Cheng , Xinran Zhang , Xiaobing Li , Feng Yu , Maosong Sun

Symbolic music understanding, which refers to the understanding of music from the symbolic data (e.g., MIDI format, but not audio), covers many music applications such as genre classification, emotion classification, and music pieces…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Mingliang Zeng , Xu Tan , Rui Wang , Zeqian Ju , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

Contextual adaptation in token embeddings plays a central role in determining how well language models maintain coherence and retain semantic relationships over extended text sequences. Static embeddings often impose constraints on lexical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Koinis Vassilis , Godfrey Milbourne , Harriet Featherstone , Xanthe Peverell , Yorick Bletchley , Zachary Montford

Combining multiple audio features can improve the performance of music tagging, but common deep learning-based feature fusion methods often lack interpretability. To address this problem, we propose a Genetic Programming (GP) pipeline that…

Vision-to-music Generation, including video-to-music and image-to-music tasks, is a significant branch of multimodal artificial intelligence demonstrating vast application prospects in fields such as film scoring, short video creation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zhaokai Wang , Chenxi Bao , Le Zhuo , Jingrui Han , Yang Yue , Yihong Tang , Victor Shea-Jay Huang , Yue Liao

Many applications of cross-modal music retrieval are related to connecting sheet music images to audio recordings. A typical and recent approach to this is to learn, via deep neural networks, a joint embedding space that correlates short…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Luis Carvalho , Gerhard Widmer

Music generation has always been a hot topic. When discussing symbolic music, melody or harmonies are usually seen as the only generating targets. But in fact, playing techniques are also quite an important part of the music. In this paper,…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Yifan Xie , Rongfeng Li

Autoregressive music generation depends strongly on the audio tokenizer. Existing high-fidelity codecs often use residual multi-codebook quantization, which preserves reconstruction quality but complicates language modeling after sequence…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yuqing Cheng , Xingyu Ma , Guochen Yu , Xiaotao Gu