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In recent years, the accuracy of automatic lyrics alignment methods has increased considerably. Yet, many current approaches employ frameworks designed for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and do not exploit properties specific to music.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Jiawen Huang , Emmanouil Benetos , Sebastian Ewert

Music Recommender Systems (MRS) have long relied on an information-retrieval framing, where progress is measured mainly through accuracy on retrieval-oriented subtasks. While effective, this reductionist paradigm struggles to address the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Elena V. Epure , Yashar Deldjoo , Bruno Sguerra , Markus Schedl , Manuel Moussallam

In this paper, we propose a technique to address the most challenging aspect of algorithmic songwriting process, which enables the human community to discover original lyrics, and melodies suitable for the generated lyrics. The proposed…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Gurunath Reddy Madhumani , Yi Yu , Florian Harscoët , Simon Canales , Suhua Tang

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) encompasses a broad range of computational techniques for analyzing and understanding musical content, with recent deep learning advances driving substantial improvements. Building upon these advances, this…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Chih-Cheng Chang , Bo-Yu Chen , Lu-Rong Chen , Li Su

Music captioning has gained significant attention in the wake of the rising prominence of streaming media platforms. Traditional approaches often prioritize either the audio or lyrics aspect of the music, inadvertently ignoring the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zihao He , Weituo Hao , Wei-Tsung Lu , Changyou Chen , Kristina Lerman , Xuchen Song

In this paper, we study a novel task that learns to compose music from natural language. Given the lyrics as input, we propose a melody composition model that generates lyrics-conditional melody as well as the exact alignment between the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Hangbo Bao , Shaohan Huang , Furu Wei , Lei Cui , Yu Wu , Chuanqi Tan , Songhao Piao , Ming Zhou

We introduce CLaMP: Contrastive Language-Music Pre-training, which learns cross-modal representations between natural language and symbolic music using a music encoder and a text encoder trained jointly with a contrastive loss. To pre-train…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Shangda Wu , Dingyao Yu , Xu Tan , Maosong Sun

We propose a deep attention-based alignment network, which aims to automatically predict lyrics and melody with given incomplete lyrics as input in a way similar to the music creation of humans. Most importantly, a deep neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Gurunath Reddy M , Zhe Zhang , Yi Yu , Florian Harscoet , Simon Canales , Suhua Tang

Time-aligned lyrics can enrich the music listening experience by enabling karaoke, text-based song retrieval and intra-song navigation, and other applications. Compared to text-to-speech alignment, lyrics alignment remains highly…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Daniel Stoller , Simon Durand , Sebastian Ewert

Automatic melody-to-lyric (M2L) generation aims to create lyrics that align with a given melody. While most previous approaches generate lyrics from scratch, revision, editing plain text draft to fit it into the melody, offers a much more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Songyan Zhao , Bingxuan Li , Yufei Tian , Nanyun Peng

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLM) for audio music have demonstrated strong capabilities in music understanding, yet symbolic music, a fundamental representation of musical structure, remains unexplored. In this…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Meng Yang , Jon McCormack , Maria Teresa Llano , Wanchao Su , Chao Lei

One of the key points in music recommendation is authoring engaging playlists according to sentiment and emotions. While previous works were mostly based on audio for music discovery and playlists generation, we take advantage of our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Loreto Parisi , Simone Francia , Silvio Olivastri , Maria Stella Tavella

Music similarity retrieval is fundamental for managing and exploring relevant content from large collections in streaming platforms. This paper presents a novel cross-modal contrastive learning framework that leverages the open-ended nature…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Tristan Tsoi , Jiajun Deng , Yaolong Ju , Benno Weck , Holger Kirchhoff , Simon Lui

Version identification (VI) has seen substantial progress over the past few years. On the one hand, the introduction of the metric learning paradigm has favored the emergence of scalable yet accurate VI systems. On the other hand, using…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Mathilde Abrassart , Guillaume Doras

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

We explore the use of large language models (LLMs) for music generation using a retrieval system to select relevant examples. We find promising initial results for music generation in a dialogue with the user, especially considering the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Nicolas Jonason , Luca Casini , Carl Thomé , Bob L. T. Sturm

Lyric-to-melody generation is a highly challenging task in the field of AI music generation. Due to the difficulty of learning strict yet weak correlations between lyrics and melodies, previous methods have suffered from weak…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Li Chai , Donglin Wang

Audio-to-lyrics alignment has become an increasingly active research task in MIR, supported by the emergence of several open-source datasets of audio recordings with word-level lyrics annotations. However, there are still a number of open…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-02 Charles Brazier , Gerhard Widmer

Capturing symmetric (e.g., country borders another country) and antisymmetric (e.g., parent_of) relations is crucial for a variety of applications. This paper tackles this challenge by introducing a novel Wikidata-derived natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Zhangdie Yuan , Andreas Vlachos

In this paper, we explore the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) to the pre-training of music. While the prevalent use of MIDI in music modeling is well-established, our findings suggest that LLMs are inherently more compatible…