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Recent advances in foundation models have enabled audio-generative models that produce high-fidelity sounds associated with music, events, and human actions. Despite the success achieved in modern audio-generative models, the conventional…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Tiantian Feng , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Shrikanth Narayanan

Recent advances in deep neural networks have enabled algorithms to compose music that is comparable to music composed by humans. However, few algorithms allow the user to generate music with tunable parameters. The ability to tune…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Huanru Henry Mao , Taylor Shin , Garrison W. Cottrell

The seamless integration of music with dance movements is essential for communicating the artistic intent of a dance piece. This alignment also significantly improves the immersive quality of gaming experiences and animation productions.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Sifei Li , Weiming Dong , Yuxin Zhang , Fan Tang , Chongyang Ma , Oliver Deussen , Tong-Yee Lee , Changsheng Xu

Music is essential in daily life, fulfilling emotional and entertainment needs, and connecting us personally, socially, and culturally. A better understanding of music can enhance our emotions, cognitive skills, and cultural connections.…

Modern generative models exhibit unprecedented capabilities to generate extremely realistic data. However, given the inherent compositionality of the real world, reliable use of these models in practical applications requires that they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Maya Okawa , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Robert P. Dick , Hidenori Tanaka

Despite advances in deep algorithmic music generation, evaluation of generated samples often relies on human evaluation, which is subjective and costly. We focus on designing a homogeneous, objective framework for evaluating samples of…

An ideal music synthesizer should be both interactive and expressive, generating high-fidelity audio in realtime for arbitrary combinations of instruments and notes. Recent neural synthesizers have exhibited a tradeoff between…

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

Evaluating generative models remains a fundamental challenge, particularly when the goal is to reflect human preferences. In this paper, we use music generation as a case study to investigate the gap between automatic evaluation metrics and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Huan Zhang , Jinhua Liang , Huy Phan , Wenwu Wang , Emmanouil Benetos

Symbolic music generation aims to create musical notes, which can help users compose music, such as generating target instrument tracks based on provided source tracks. In practical scenarios where there's a predefined ensemble of tracks…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Ang Lv , Xu Tan , Peiling Lu , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang , Jiang Bian , Rui Yan

We demonstrate the efficacy of using intermediate representations from a single foundation model to enhance various music downstream tasks. We introduce SoniDo, a music foundation model (MFM) designed to extract hierarchical features from…

Multi-modal music generation, using multiple modalities like text, images, and video alongside musical scores and audio as guidance, is an emerging research area with broad applications. This paper reviews this field, categorizing music…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Shuyu Li , Shulei Ji , Zihao Wang , Songruoyao Wu , Jiaxing Yu , Kejun Zhang

Creating aesthetically pleasing pieces of art, including music, has been a long-term goal for artificial intelligence research. Despite recent successes of long-short term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Zheng Sun , Jiaqi Liu , Zewang Zhang , Jingwen Chen , Zhao Huo , Ching Hua Lee , Xiao Zhang

Automatic music generation is an interdisciplinary research topic that combines computational creativity and semantic analysis of music to create automatic machine improvisations. An important property of such a system is allowing the user…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Ke Chen , Gus Xia , Shlomo Dubnov

The use of deep learning to solve problems in literary arts has been a recent trend that has gained a lot of attention and automated generation of music has been an active area. This project deals with the generation of music using raw…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Vasanth Kalingeri , Srikanth Grandhe

Deep generative models are now able to synthesize high-quality audio signals, shifting the critical aspect in their development from audio quality to control capabilities. Although text-to-music generation is getting largely adopted by the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Nils Demerlé , Philippe Esling , Guillaume Doras , David Genova

Advancements in the digital technologies have enabled researchers to develop a variety of Computational Music applications. Such applications are required to capture, process, and generate data related to music. Therefore, it is important…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-27 SeyyedPooya HekmatiAthar , Mohd Anwar

Deep Learning models have shown very promising results in automatically composing polyphonic music pieces. However, it is very hard to control such models in order to guide the compositions towards a desired goal. We are interested in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Lucas N. Ferreira , Jim Whitehead

This paper investigates foundation models tailored for music informatics, a domain currently challenged by the scarcity of labeled data and generalization issues. To this end, we conduct an in-depth comparative study among various…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Minz Won , Yun-Ning Hung , Duc Le

Multi-track music generation has garnered significant research interest due to its precise mixing and remixing capabilities. However, existing models often overlook essential attributes such as rhythmic stability and synchronization,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hongrui Wang , Fan Zhang , Zhiyuan Yu , Ziya Zhou , Xi Chen , Can Yang , Yang Wang