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Text-to-music (TTM) generation, which converts textual descriptions into audio, opens up innovative avenues for multimedia creation. Achieving high quality and diversity in this process demands extensive, high-quality data, which are often…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Chang Li , Ruoyu Wang , Lijuan Liu , Jun Du , Yixuan Sun , Zilu Guo , Zhenrong Zhang , Yuan Jiang , Jianqing Gao , Feng Ma

In this document, we introduce a new dataset designed for training machine learning models of symbolic music data. Five datasets are provided, one of which is from a newly collected corpus of 20K midi files. We describe our preprocessing…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Christian Walder

One of the main limitations in the field of audio signal processing is the lack of large public datasets with audio representations and high-quality annotations due to restrictions of copyrighted commercial music. We present Melon Playlist…

Music popularity prediction has attracted growing research interest, with relevance to artists, platforms, and recommendation systems. However, the explosive rise of AI-generated music platforms has created an entirely new and largely…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Jaavid Aktar Husain , Dorien Herremans

Text-To-Music (TTM) models have recently revolutionized the automatic music generation research field. Specifically, by reaching superior performances to all previous state-of-the-art models and by lowering the technical proficiency needed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Luca Comanducci , Paolo Bestagini , Stefano Tubaro

The main challenges of Optical Music Recognition (OMR) come from the nature of written music, its complexity and the difficulty of finding an appropriate data representation. This paper provides a first look at DoReMi, an OMR dataset that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Elona Shatri , György Fazekas

Commercial adoption of automatic music composition requires the capability of generating diverse and high-quality music suitable for the desired context (e.g., music for romantic movies, action games, restaurants, etc.). In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Lee Hyun , Taehyun Kim , Hyolim Kang , Minjoo Ki , Hyeonchan Hwang , Kwanho Park , Sharang Han , Seon Joo Kim

The state-of-the-art methods for drum transcription in the presence of melodic instruments (DTM) are machine learning models trained in a supervised manner, which means that they rely on labeled datasets. The problem is that the available…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Mickael Zehren , Marco Alunno , Paolo Bientinesi

Optical Music Recognition (OMR) has long been without an adequate dataset and ground truth for evaluating OMR systems, which has been a major problem for establishing a state of the art in the field. Furthermore, machine learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Jan Hajič , Pavel Pecina

One of the significant issues in the music supply chain today is the lack of consistent, complete and authoritative information or metadata regarding the creation of a given musical work. In many cases multiple entities in the music supply…

AI systems for high quality music generation typically rely on extremely large musical datasets to train the AI models. This creates barriers to generating music beyond the genres represented in dominant datasets such as Western Classical…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Nick Bryan-Kinns , Zijin Li

Question-answering (QA) is a natural approach for humans to understand a piece of music audio. However, for machines, accessing a large-scale dataset covering diverse aspects of music is crucial, yet challenging, due to the scarcity of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Zhihao Ouyang , Ju-Chiang Wang , Daiyu Zhang , Bin Chen , Shangjie Li , Quan Lin

Representation learning focused on disentangling the underlying factors of variation in given data has become an important area of research in machine learning. However, most of the studies in this area have relied on datasets from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Ashis Pati , Siddharth Gururani , Alexander Lerch

Machine Learning models are being utilized extensively to drive recommender systems, which is a widely explored topic today. This is especially true of the music industry, where we are witnessing a surge in growth. Besides a large chunk of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Rahul Singh , Pranav Kanuparthi

A conversational music retrieval system can help users discover music that matches their preferences through dialogue. To achieve this, a conversational music retrieval system should seamlessly engage in multi-turn conversation by 1)…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-13 SeungHeon Doh , Keunwoo Choi , Daeyong Kwon , Taesu Kim , Juhan Nam

Music source separation performance has greatly improved in recent years with the advent of approaches based on deep learning. Such methods typically require large amounts of labelled training data, which in the case of music consist of…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Ethan Manilow , Gordon Wichern , Prem Seetharaman , Jonathan Le Roux

Music engagement spans diverse interactions with music, from selection and emotional response to its impact on behavior, identity, and social connections. Social media platforms provide spaces where such engagement can be observed in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Jatin Agarwala , George Paul , Nemani Harsha Vardhan , Vinoo Alluri

A large amount of musical heritage has been digitised by memory institutions: libraries, museums, and archives. Nevertheless, the field of Optical Music Recognition (OMR) has struggled with making this music machine-readable, despite…

While recent years have seen remarkable progress in music generation models, research on their biases across countries, languages, cultures, and musical genres remains underexplored. This gap is compounded by the lack of datasets and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Ahmet Solak , Florian Grötschla , Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Roger Wattenhofer

Many AI companies are training their large language models (LLMs) on data without the permission of the copyright owners. The permissibility of doing so varies by jurisdiction: in countries like the EU and Japan, this is allowed under…