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Separating the individual elements in a musical mixture is an essential process for music analysis and practice. While this is generally addressed using neural networks optimized to mask or transform the time-frequency representation of a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

We studied how to obtain a distribution for the number of ancestors in species of sexual reproduction. Present models concentrate on the estimation of distributions repetitions of ancestors in genealogical trees. It has been shown that is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-09-12 M. Caruso , C. Jarne

In many real life situations one has $m$ types of random events happening in chronological order within a time interval and one wishes to predict various milestones about these events or their subsets. An example is birdwatching. Suppose we…

We show that pre-training a Transformer on music before language significantly accelerates language acquisition. Using piano performances (MAESTRO dataset), a developmental pipeline -- music $\to$ poetry $\to$ prose -- yields a $17.5\%$…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yoshinori Nomura

We study subliminal learning, a surprising phenomenon where language models transmit behavioral traits via semantically unrelated data. In our main experiments, a "teacher" model with some trait T (such as liking owls or being misaligned)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Alex Cloud , Minh Le , James Chua , Jan Betley , Anna Sztyber-Betley , Jacob Hilton , Samuel Marks , Owain Evans

As generative models have risen in popularity, a domain that has risen alongside is generative models for music. Our study aims to compare the performance of a simple Markov chain model and a recurrent neural network (RNN) model, two…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Conrad Hsu , Ross Greer

Despite progress in melody-to-lyric generation, a substantial singability gap remains between machine-generated lyrics and those written by human lyricists. In this work, we aim to narrow this gap by jointly learning both wording and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Longshen Ou , Xichu Ma , Ye Wang

This work considers the problem of learning the structure of multivariate linear tree models, which include a variety of directed tree graphical models with continuous, discrete, and mixed latent variables such as linear-Gaussian models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Animashree Anandkumar , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Daniel Hsu , Sham M. Kakade , Le Song , Tong Zhang

Changes in bird populations can indicate broader changes in ecosystems, making birds one of the most important animal groups to monitor. Combining machine learning and passive acoustics enables continuous monitoring over extended periods…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Simen Hexeberg , Mandar Chitre , Matthias Hoffmann-Kuhnt , Bing Wen Low

In this work, we present a method for learning interpretable music signal representations directly from waveform signals. Our method can be trained using unsupervised objectives and relies on the denoising auto-encoder model that uses a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-02 Stylianos I. Mimilakis , Konstantinos Drossos , Gerald Schuller

Humans can acquire a highly structured intuitive understanding of musical patterns, yet these patterns often require multiple iterations of reflection and re-listening to internalize fully. To capture such an internalization process, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zeng Ren , Maddy Bowers , Xinyi Guan , Martin Rohrmeier

We consider the problem of predicting the next observation given a sequence of past observations, and consider the extent to which accurate prediction requires complex algorithms that explicitly leverage long-range dependencies. Perhaps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Vatsal Sharan , Sham Kakade , Percy Liang , Gregory Valiant

In this paper we propose modifications to the neural network framework, AutoVC for the task of singing technique conversion. This includes utilising a pretrained singing technique encoder which extracts technique information, upon which a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Brendan O'Connor , Simon Dixon , George Fazekas

Airborne hyperspectral imaging is a promising method for identifying tropical species, but spectral variability between acquisitions hinders consistent results. This paper proposes using Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) to encode spectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Colin Prieur , Nassim Ait Ali Braham , Paul Tresson , Grégoire Vincent , Jocelyn Chanussot

Artificial neural networks learn how to solve new problems through a computationally intense and time consuming process. One way to reduce the amount of time required is to inject preexisting knowledge into the network. To make use of past…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-10 Cosmin Stamate , George D. Magoulas , Michael S. C. Thomas

Recent progress in deep generative models has improved the quality of neural vocoders in speech domain. However, generating a high-quality singing voice remains challenging due to a wider variety of musical expressions in pitch, loudness,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Naoya Takahashi , Mayank Kumar , Singh , Yuki Mitsufuji

Initiating a quest to unravel the complexities of musical aesthetics through the lens of information dynamics, our study delves into the realm of musical sequence modeling, drawing a parallel between the sequential structured nature of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Farshad Jafari , Claire Arthur

In nature, animals encounter high dimensional sensory stimuli that have complex statistical and dynamical structure. Attempts to study the neural coding of these natural signals face challenges both in the selection of the signal ensemble…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Brian D. Wright , Kamal Sen , William Bialek , Allison J. Doupe

Many practices have been presented in music generation recently. While stylistic music generation using deep learning techniques has became the main stream, these models still struggle to generate music with high musicality, different…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Shuqi Dai , Xichu Ma , Ye Wang , Roger B. Dannenberg

We present Music Tagging Transformer that is trained with a semi-supervised approach. The proposed model captures local acoustic characteristics in shallow convolutional layers, then temporally summarizes the sequence of the extracted…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Minz Won , Keunwoo Choi , Xavier Serra