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Diffusion models have shown promising results in cross-modal generation tasks involving audio and music, such as text-to-sound and text-to-music generation. These text-controlled music generation models typically focus on generating music…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Tornike Karchkhadze , Mohammad Rasool Izadi , Ke Chen , Gerard Assayag , Shlomo Dubnov

Much like most of cognition research, music cognition is an interdisciplinary field, which attempts to apply methods of cognitive science (neurological, computational and experimental) to understand the perception and process of composition…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Abhimanyu Sethia , Aayush

Text-to-music models have revolutionized the creative landscape, offering new possibilities for music creation. Yet their integration into musicians workflows remains underexplored. This paper presents a case study on how TTM models impact…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Francesca Ronchini , Luca Comanducci , Simone Marcucci , Fabio Antonacci

Recently, symbolic music generation has become a focus of numerous deep learning research. Structure as an important part of music, contributes to improving the quality of music, and an increasing number of works start to study the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yishan Lv , Jing Luo , Boyuan Ju , Xinyu Yang

A prominent theory of affective response to music revolves around the concepts of surprisal and expectation. In prior work, this idea has been operationalized in the form of probabilistic models of music which allow for precise computation…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Ninon Lizé Masclef , T. Anderson Keller

We present a hybrid neural network and rule-based system that generates pop music. Music produced by pure rule-based systems often sounds mechanical. Music produced by machine learning sounds better, but still lacks hierarchical temporal…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Yifei Teng , An Zhao , Camille Goudeseune

Natural language processing methods have been applied in a variety of music studies, drawing the connection between music and language. In this paper, we expand those approaches by investigating \textit{chord embeddings}, which we apply in…

Music comprises of a set of complex simultaneous events organized in time. In this paper we introduce a novel framework that we call Deep Musical Information Dynamics, which combines two parallel streams - a low rate latent representation…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Shlomo Dubnov

We consider the problem of learning high-level controls over the global structure of generated sequences, particularly in the context of symbolic music generation with complex language models. In this work, we present the Transformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Kristy Choi , Curtis Hawthorne , Ian Simon , Monica Dinculescu , Jesse Engel

The rapid rise of generative AI has transformed music creation, with millions of users engaging in AI-generated music. Despite its popularity, concerns regarding copyright infringement, job displacement, and ethical implications have led to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Darius Afchar , Gabriel Meseguer-Brocal , Kamil Akesbi , Romain Hennequin

Dancing to music is an instinctive move by humans. Learning to model the music-to-dance generation process is, however, a challenging problem. It requires significant efforts to measure the correlation between music and dance as one needs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Hsin-Ying Lee , Xiaodong Yang , Ming-Yu Liu , Ting-Chun Wang , Yu-Ding Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Jan Kautz

We present a model for capturing musical features and creating novel sequences of music, called the Convolutional Variational Recurrent Neural Network. To generate sequential data, the model uses an encoder-decoder architecture with latent…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Eunjeong Stella Koh , Shlomo Dubnov , Dustin Wright

Modeling polyphonic music is a particularly challenging task because of the intricate interplay between melody and harmony. A good model should satisfy three requirements: statistical accuracy (capturing faithfully the statistics of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Gaëtan Hadjeres , Jason Sakellariou , François Pachet

Deep generative models for symbolic music are typically designed to model temporal dependencies in music so as to predict the next musical event given previous events. In many cases, such models are expected to learn abstract concepts such…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Benjamin Genchel , Ashis Pati , Alexander Lerch

This study explores the extent to which deep learning models can predict groove and its related perceptual dimensions directly from audio signals. We critically examine the effectiveness of seven state-of-the-art deep learning models in…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Axel Marmoret , Nicolas Farrugia , Jan Alexander Stupacher

Diffusion models have recently shown strong potential in both music generation and music source separation tasks. Although in early stages, a trend is emerging towards integrating these tasks into a single framework, as both involve…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Tornike Karchkhadze , Mohammad Rasool Izadi , Shlomo Dubnov

Polyphonic music generation is still a challenge direction due to its correct between generating melody and harmony. Most of the previous studies used RNN-based models. However, the RNN-based models are hard to establish the relationship…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Jiuyang Zhou , Hong Zhu , Xingping Wang

We introduce a Maximum Entropy model able to capture the statistics of melodies in music. The model can be used to generate new melodies that emulate the style of the musical corpus which was used to train it. Instead of using the $n-$body…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-12 Jason Sakellariou , Francesca Tria , Vittorio Loreto , François Pachet

We introduce a film score generation framework to harmonize visual pixels and music melodies utilizing a latent diffusion model. Our framework processes film clips as input and generates music that aligns with a general theme while offering…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-11-13 F. Qi , L. Ni , C. Xu

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