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We investigate the problem of transforming an input sequence into a high-dimensional output sequence in order to transcribe polyphonic audio music into symbolic notation. We introduce a probabilistic model based on a recurrent neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski , Yoshua Bengio , Pascal Vincent

The automated creation of accurate musical notation from an expressive human performance is a fundamental task in computational musicology. To this end, we present an end-to-end deep learning approach that constructs detailed musical scores…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Tim Beyer , Angela Dai

Music often shares notable parallels with language, motivating the use of pretrained large language models (LLMs) for symbolic music understanding and generation. Despite growing interest, the practical effectiveness of adapting…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Deepak Kumar , Emmanouil Karystinaios , Gerhard Widmer , Markus Schedl

Pop music generation has always been an attractive topic for both musicians and scientists for a long time. However, automatically composing pop music with a satisfactory structure is still a challenging issue. In this paper, we propose to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Xueyao Zhang , Jinchao Zhang , Yao Qiu , Li Wang , Jie Zhou

This paper presents the Jazz Transformer, a generative model that utilizes a neural sequence model called the Transformer-XL for modeling lead sheets of Jazz music. Moreover, the model endeavors to incorporate structural events present in…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Shih-Lun Wu , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) has seen a recent surge in deep learning-based approaches, which often involve encoding symbolic music (i.e., music represented in terms of discrete note events) in an image-like or language like fashion.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Huan Zhang , Emmanouil Karystinaios , Simon Dixon , Gerhard Widmer , Carlos Eduardo Cancino-Chacón

Generative statistical models of chord sequences play crucial roles in music processing. To capture syntactic similarities among certain chords (e.g. in C major key, between G and G7 and between F and Dm), we study hidden Markov models and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Hiroaki Tsushima , Eita Nakamura , Katsutoshi Itoyama , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

Structural segmentation of music refers to the task of finding a symbolic representation of the organisation of a song, reducing the musical flow to a partition of non-overlapping segments. Under this definition, the musical structure may…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Axel Marmoret , Jérémy E. Cohen , Frédéric Bimbot

Chord progressions encapsulate important information about music, pertaining to its structure and conveyed emotions. They serve as the backbone of musical composition, and in many cases, they are the sole information required for a musician…

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

In the task of generating music, the art factor plays a big role and is a great challenge for AI. Previous work involving adversarial training to produce new music pieces and modeling the compatibility of variety in music (beats, tempo,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Abhinav Kaushal Keshari

To apply neural sequence models such as the Transformers to music generation tasks, one has to represent a piece of music by a sequence of tokens drawn from a finite set of pre-defined vocabulary. Such a vocabulary usually involves tokens…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Wen-Yi Hsiao , Jen-Yu Liu , Yin-Cheng Yeh , Yi-Hsuan Yang

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…

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

Our goal is to be able to build a generative model from a deep neural network architecture to try to create music that has both harmony and melody and is passable as music composed by humans. Previous work in music generation has mainly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Allen Huang , Raymond Wu

Microbial identification is a central issue in microbiology, in particular in the fields of infectious diseases diagnosis and industrial quality control. The concept of species is tightly linked to the concept of biological and clinical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-25 Kévin Vervier , Pierre Mahé , Jean-Baptiste Veyrieras , Jean-Philippe Vert

Generating music with deep neural networks has been an area of active research in recent years. While the quality of generated samples has been steadily increasing, most methods are only able to exert minimal control over the generated…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Dimitri von Rütte , Luca Biggio , Yannic Kilcher , Thomas Hofmann

Machine learning techniques, such as Transformers and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, play a crucial role in Symbolic Music Generation (SMG). Existing literature indicates a difference between LSTMs and Transformers regarding their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Soudeep Ghoshal , Sandipan Chakraborty , Pradipto Chowdhury , Himanshu Buckchash

Discovering and exploring the underlying structure of multi-instrumental music using learning-based approaches remains an open problem. We extend the recent MusicVAE model to represent multitrack polyphonic measures as vectors in a latent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-04 Ian Simon , Adam Roberts , Colin Raffel , Jesse Engel , Curtis Hawthorne , Douglas Eck

Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise in lyric-to-melody generation, but models trained with Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) often produce musically implausible melodies with issues like poor rhythm and unsuitable vocal ranges, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hao Meng , Siyuan Zheng , Shuran Zhou , Qiangqiang Wang , Yang Song