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Automatic generation of sequences has been a highly explored field in the last years. In particular, natural language processing and automatic music composition have gained importance due to the recent advances in machine learning and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Sebastian Garcia-Valencia , Alejandro Betancourt , Juan G. Lalinde-Pulido

Generative audio modeling has largely been fragmented into specialized tasks, text-to-speech (TTS), text-to-music (TTM), and text-to-audio (TTA), each operating under heterogeneous control paradigms. Unifying these modalities remains a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Chunyu Qiang , Xiaopeng Wang , Kang Yin , Yuzhe Liang , Yuxin Guo , Teng Ma , Ziyu Zhang , Tianrui Wang , Cheng Gong , Yushen Chen , Ruibo Fu , Chen Zhang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Text-to-image diffusion models have shown impressive capabilities in generating realistic visuals from natural-language prompts, yet they often struggle with accurately binding attributes to corresponding objects, especially in prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Do Huu Dat , Nam Hyeonu , Po-Yuan Mao , Tae-Hyun Oh

The ''pretraining-and-finetuning'' paradigm has become a norm for training domain-specific models in natural language processing and computer vision. In this work, we aim to examine this paradigm for symbolic music generation through…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Weihan Xu , Julian McAuley , Shlomo Dubnov , Hao-Wen Dong

Research on style transfer and domain translation has clearly demonstrated the ability of deep learning-based algorithms to manipulate images in terms of artistic style. More recently, several attempts have been made to extend such…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Ondřej Cífka , Umut Şimşekli , Gaël Richard

In this work, we investigate the personalization of text-to-music diffusion models in a few-shot setting. Motivated by recent advances in the computer vision domain, we are the first to explore the combination of pre-trained text-to-audio…

Emotion-driven melody harmonization aims to generate diverse harmonies for a single melody to convey desired emotions. Previous research found it hard to alter the perceived emotional valence of lead sheets only by harmonizing the same…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Jingyue Huang , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Music often shares notable parallels with language, motivating the use of pretrained large language models (LLMs) for symbolic music understanding and generation. Despite growing interest, the practical effectiveness of adapting…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Deepak Kumar , Emmanouil Karystinaios , Gerhard Widmer , Markus Schedl

Despite progress in controllable symbolic music generation, data scarcity remains a challenge for certain control modalities. Composer-style music generation is a prime example, as only a few pieces per composer are available, limiting the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Mingyang Yao , Ke Chen

In recent years, the burgeoning interest in diffusion models has led to significant advances in image and speech generation. Nevertheless, the direct synthesis of music waveforms from unrestricted textual prompts remains a relatively…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Pengfei Zhu , Chao Pang , Yekun Chai , Lei Li , Shuohuan Wang , Yu Sun , Hao Tian , Hua Wu

Music generation aims to create music segments that align with human aesthetics based on diverse conditional information. Despite advancements in generating music from specific textual descriptions (e.g., style, genre, instruments), the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Jiahao Song , Yuzhao Wang

Music generation models can produce high-fidelity coherent accompaniment given complete audio input, but are limited to editing and loop-based workflows. We study real-time audio-to-audio accompaniment: as a model hears an input audio…

Developing text-driven symbolic music generation models remains challenging due to the scarcity of aligned text-music datasets and the unreliability of automated captioning pipelines. While most efforts have focused on MIDI, sheet music…

In recent years, AI-Generated Content (AIGC) has witnessed rapid advancements, facilitating the creation of music, images, and other artistic forms across a wide range of industries. However, current models for image- and video-to-music…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jiajun Li , Tianze Xu , Xuesong Chen , Xinrui Yao , Shuchang Liu

In addressing the challenge of interpretability and generalizability of artificial music intelligence, this paper introduces a novel symbolic representation that amalgamates both explicit and implicit musical information across diverse…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Yikai Qian , Tianle Wang , Xinyi Tong , Xin Jin , Duo Xu , Bo Zheng , Tiezheng Ge , Feng Yu , Song-Chun Zhu

Music emotion recognition is a key task in symbolic music understanding (SMER). Recent approaches have shown promising results by fine-tuning large-scale pre-trained models (e.g., MIDIBERT, a benchmark in symbolic music understanding) to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Haiying Xia , Zhongyi Huang , Yumei Tan , Shuxiang Song

With the rise of AI-generated content (AIGC), generating perceptually natural and feeling-aligned music from multimodal inputs has become a central challenge. Existing approaches often rely on explicit emotion labels that require costly…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiaying Hong , Ting Zhu , Thanet Markchom , Huizhi Liang

We introduce VampNet, a masked acoustic token modeling approach to music synthesis, compression, inpainting, and variation. We use a variable masking schedule during training which allows us to sample coherent music from the model by…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Hugo Flores Garcia , Prem Seetharaman , Rithesh Kumar , Bryan Pardo

Text-to-music models have revolutionized the creative landscape, offering new possibilities for music creation. Yet their integration into musicians workflows remains underexplored. This paper presents a case study on how TTM models impact…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Francesca Ronchini , Luca Comanducci , Simone Marcucci , Fabio Antonacci

Generating music from text descriptions is a user-friendly mode since the text is a relatively easy interface for user engagement. While some approaches utilize texts to control music audio generation, editing musical elements in generated…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Peiling Lu , Xin Xu , Chenfei Kang , Botao Yu , Chengyi Xing , Xu Tan , Jiang Bian