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Generative models in vision have seen rapid progress due to algorithmic improvements and the availability of high-quality image datasets. In this paper, we offer contributions in both these areas to enable similar progress in audio…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Jesse Engel , Cinjon Resnick , Adam Roberts , Sander Dieleman , Douglas Eck , Karen Simonyan , Mohammad Norouzi

Musical expressivity and coherence are indispensable in music composition and performance, while often neglected in modern AI generative models. In this work, we introduce a listening-based data-processing technique that captures the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jingwei Liu

Recent advancements in generative models have shown remarkable progress in music generation. However, most existing methods focus on generating monophonic or homophonic music, while the generation of polyphonic and multi-track music with…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Hongfei Wang

Spurred by the potential of deep learning, computational music generation has gained renewed academic interest. A crucial issue in music generation is that of user control, especially in scenarios where the music generation process is…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Stefan Lattner , Maarten Grachten

Recent approaches in music generation rely on disentangled representations, often labeled as structure and timbre or local and global, to enable controllable synthesis. Yet the underlying properties of these embeddings remain underexplored.…

We introduce Noise2Music, where a series of diffusion models is trained to generate high-quality 30-second music clips from text prompts. Two types of diffusion models, a generator model, which generates an intermediate representation…

Structure is one of the most essential aspects of music, and music structure is commonly indicated through repetition. However, the nature of repetition and structure in music is still not well understood, especially in the context of music…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Shuqi Dai , Huiran Yu , Roger B. Dannenberg

Despite the central role that melody plays in music perception, it remains an open challenge in music information retrieval to reliably detect the notes of the melody present in an arbitrary music recording. A key challenge in melody…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Chris Donahue , John Thickstun , Percy Liang

Sound modelling is the process of developing algorithms that generate sound under parametric control. There are a few distinct approaches that have been developed historically including modelling the physics of sound production and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 M. Huzaifah , L. Wyse

We use Google's MusicVAE, a Variational Auto-Encoder with a 512-dimensional latent space to represent a few bars of music, and organize the latent dimensions according to their relevance in describing music. We find that, on average, most…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Gabriela Barenboim , Luigi Del Debbio , Johannes Hirn , Veronica Sanz

In this paper, we introduce Foley Music, a system that can synthesize plausible music for a silent video clip about people playing musical instruments. We first identify two key intermediate representations for a successful video to music…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Chuang Gan , Deng Huang , Peihao Chen , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Antonio Torralba

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

Music is one of the Gardner's intelligences in his theory of multiple intelligences. How humans perceive and understand music is still being studied and is crucial to develop artificial intelligence models that imitate such processes. Music…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Carlos Hernandez-Olivan , Javier Hernandez-Olivan , Jose R. Beltran

This paper presents NetWorks (NW), an interactive music generation system that uses a hierarchically clustered scale free network to generate music that ranges from orderly to chaotic. NW was inspired by the Honing Theory of creativity,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Shawn Bell , Liane Gabora

This study presents an exploratory evaluation of Music Generation Systems (MGS) within contemporary music production workflows by examining eight open-source systems. The evaluation framework combines technical insights with practical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Shayan Dadman , Bernt Arild Bremdal , Andreas Bergsland

This paper presents a generative AI model for automated music composition with LSTM networks that takes a novel approach at encoding musical information which is based on movement in music rather than absolute pitch. Melodies are encoded as…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Hooman Rafraf

Melody extraction is a vital music information retrieval task among music researchers for its potential applications in education pedagogy and the music industry. Melody extraction is a notoriously challenging task due to the presence of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Gurunath Reddy M , K. Sreenivasa Rao , Partha Pratim Das

Large language models (LLMs) excel at modeling relationships between strings in natural language and have shown promise in extending to other symbolic domains like coding or mathematics. However, the extent to which they implicitly model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Andrew Shin , Kunitake Kaneko

Foundation models have revolutionized music information retrieval, but questions remain about their ability to generalize across diverse musical traditions. This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of five state-of-the-art audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Charilaos Papaioannou , Emmanouil Benetos , Alexandros Potamianos

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