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Generative models have thrived in computer vision, enabling unprecedented image processes. Yet the results in audio remain less advanced. Our project targets real-time sound synthesis from a reduced set of high-level parameters, including…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Adrien Bitton , Philippe Esling , Antoine Caillon , Martin Fouilleul

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

Tokenizing music to fit the general framework of language models is a compelling challenge, especially considering the diverse symbolic structures in which music can be represented (e.g., sequences, grids, and graphs). To date, most…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Lekai Qian , Haoyu Gu , Jingwei Zhao , Ziyu Wang

In this paper we present a new approach for the generation of multi-instrument symbolic music driven by musical emotion. The principal novelty of our approach centres on conditioning a state-of-the-art transformer based on continuous-valued…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Serkan Sulun , Matthew E. P. Davies , Paula Viana

Music Structure Analysis is an open research task in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). In the past, there have been several works that attempt to segment music into the audio and symbolic domains, however, the identification and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Carlos Hernandez-Olivan , Sonia Rubio Llamas , Jose R. Beltran

Autoregressive (AR) models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating high-fidelity music. However, the conventional next-token prediction paradigm in AR models does not align with the human creative process in music…

Symbolic music generation is a challenging task in multimedia generation, involving long sequences with hierarchical temporal structures, long-range dependencies, and fine-grained local details. Though recent diffusion-based models produce…

Automatic music transcription (AMT) aims to convert raw audio to symbolic music representation. As a fundamental problem of music information retrieval (MIR), AMT is considered a difficult task even for trained human experts due to overlap…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Shenli Yuan , Lingjie Kong , Jiushuang Guo

We present JASCO, a temporally controlled text-to-music generation model utilizing both symbolic and audio-based conditions. JASCO can generate high-quality music samples conditioned on global text descriptions along with fine-grained local…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Or Tal , Alon Ziv , Itai Gat , Felix Kreuk , Yossi Adi

Providing soundtracks for videos remains a costly and time-consuming challenge for multimedia content creators. We introduce EMSYNC, an automatic video-based symbolic music generator that creates music aligned with a video's emotional…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Serkan Sulun , Paula Viana , Matthew E. P. Davies

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

Symbolic music generation has seen rapid progress with artificial neural networks, yet remains underexplored in the biologically plausible domain of spiking neural networks (SNNs), where both standardized benchmarks and comprehensive…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Qian Liang , Menghaoran Tang , Yi Zeng

While most research on controllable text generation has focused on steering base Language Models, the emerging instruction-tuning and prompting paradigm offers an alternate approach to controllability. We compile and release ConGenBench, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Dhananjay Ashok , Barnabas Poczos

Generating multi-instrument music from symbolic music representations is an important task in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). A central but still largely unsolved problem in this context is musically and acoustically informed control in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Ben Maman , Johannes Zeitler , Meinard Müller , Amit H. Bermano

Graphs can be leveraged to model polyphonic multitrack symbolic music, where notes, chords and entire sections may be linked at different levels of the musical hierarchy by tonal and rhythmic relationships. Nonetheless, there is a lack of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Emanuele Cosenza , Andrea Valenti , Davide Bacciu

At present, neural network models show powerful sequence prediction ability and are used in many automatic composition models. In comparison, the way humans compose music is very different from it. Composers usually start by creating…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Yutian Wang , Wanyin Yang , Zhenrong Dai , Yilong Zhang , Kun Zhao , Hui Wang

Automatic transcription of acoustic guitar fingerpicking performances remains a challenging task due to the scarcity of labeled training data and legal constraints connected with musical recordings. This work investigates a procedural data…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Sebastian Murgul , Michael Heizmann

In recent years, text-to-audio systems have achieved remarkable success, enabling the generation of complete audio segments directly from text descriptions. While these systems also facilitate music creation, the element of human creativity…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Weixuan Yuan , Qadeer Khan , Vladimir Golkov

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence have significantly enhanced generative tasks involving music and images, employing both unimodal and multimodal approaches. This research develops a model capable of generating music that…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Tanisha Hisariya , Huan Zhang , Jinhua Liang

Video-to-music generation presents significant potential in video production, requiring the generated music to be both semantically and rhythmically aligned with the video. Achieving this alignment demands advanced music generation…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Sifei Li , Binxin Yang , Chunji Yin , Chong Sun , Yuxin Zhang , Weiming Dong , Chen Li