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Variational Autoencoders(VAEs) have already achieved great results on image generation and recently made promising progress on music generation. However, the generation process is still quite difficult to control in the sense that the…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Ruihan Yang , Tianyao Chen , Yiyi Zhang , Gus Xia

Recent work has proposed training machine learning models to predict aesthetic ratings for music audio. Our work explores whether such models can be used to finetune a symbolic music generation system with reinforcement learning, and what…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Nicolas Jonason , Luca Casini , Bob L. T. Sturm

State-of-the-art symbolic music generation models have recently achieved remarkable output quality, yet explicit control over compositional features, such as tonal tension, remains challenging. We propose a novel approach that integrates a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Maral Ebrahimzadeh , Gilberto Bernardes , Sebastian Stober

Deep learning models have become a critical tool for analysis and classification of musical data. These models operate either on the audio signal, e.g. waveform or spectrogram, or on a symbolic representation, such as MIDI. In the latter,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Léo Géré , Philippe Rigaux , Nicolas Audebert

Data mixing augmentation has proved effective in training deep models. Recent methods mix labels mainly based on the mixture proportion of image pixels. As the main discriminative information of a fine-grained image usually resides in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Shaoli Huang , Xinchao Wang , Dacheng Tao

Generating symphonic music requires simultaneously managing high-level structural form and dense, multi-track orchestration. Existing symbolic models often struggle with a "complexity-control imbalance", in which scaling bottlenecks limit…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Xuzheng He , Nan Nan , Zhilin Wang , Ziyue Kang , Zhuoru Mo , Ao Li , Yu Pan , Xiaobing Li , Feng Yu , Xiaohong Guan

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have made great strides in generating high-quality samples in both discrete and continuous domains. However, Discrete DDPMs (D3PMs) have yet to be applied to the domain of Symbolic Music.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Matthias Plasser , Silvan Peter , Gerhard Widmer

In recent years, remarkable advancements in artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) have been achieved in the fields of image synthesis and text generation, generating content comparable to that produced by humans. However, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Sida Tian , Can Zhang , Wei Yuan , Wei Tan , Wenjie Zhu

Despite significant advancements in music generation systems, the methodologies for evaluating generated music have not progressed as expected due to the complex nature of music, with aspects such as structure, coherence, creativity, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Faria Binte Kader , Santu Karmaker

Current generative models are able to generate high-quality artefacts but have been shown to struggle with compositional reasoning, which can be defined as the ability to generate complex structures from simpler elements. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Giovanni Bindi , Philippe Esling

The first step to apply deep learning techniques for symbolic music understanding is to transform musical pieces (mainly in MIDI format) into sequences of predefined tokens like note pitch, note velocity, and chords. Subsequently, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Jinhao Tian , Zuchao Li , Jiajia Li , Ping Wang

AI music generation has advanced rapidly, with models like diffusion and autoregressive algorithms enabling high-fidelity outputs. These tools can alter styles, mix instruments, or isolate them. Since sound can be visualized as…

Recent advances in generative AI for music have achieved remarkable fidelity and stylistic diversity, yet these systems often fail to align with nuanced human preferences due to the specific loss functions they use. This paper advocates for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Dorien Herremans , Abhinaba Roy

This paper presents a comprehensive investigation of existing feature extraction tools for symbolic music and contrasts their performance to determine the set of features that best characterizes the musical style of a given music score. In…

Understanding the structural characteristics of harmony is essential for an effective use of music as a communication medium. Of the three expressive axes of music (melody, rhythm, harmony), harmony is the foundation on which the emotional…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Maria Rojo González , Simone Santini

Music is inherently made up of complex structures, and representing them as graphs helps to capture multiple levels of relationships. While music generation has been explored using various deep generation techniques, research on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Wen Qing Lim , Jinhua Liang , Huan Zhang

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

Recent advancements in deep generative models present new opportunities for music production but also pose challenges, such as high computational demands and limited audio quality. Moreover, current systems frequently rely solely on text…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Javier Nistal , Marco Pasini , Cyran Aouameur , Maarten Grachten , Stefan Lattner

Multimodal music generation aims to produce music from diverse input modalities, including text, videos, and images. Existing methods use a common embedding space for multimodal fusion. Despite their effectiveness in other modalities, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Baisen Wang , Le Zhuo , Zhaokai Wang , Chenxi Bao , Wu Chengjing , Xuecheng Nie , Jiao Dai , Jizhong Han , Yue Liao , Si Liu

Adapting learning materials to the level of skill of a student is important in education. In the context of music training, one essential ability is sight-reading -- playing unfamiliar scores at first sight -- which benefits from…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Pedro Ramoneda , Masahiro Suzuki , Akira Maezawa , Xavier Serra