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Music summarization allows for higher efficiency in processing, storage, and sharing of datasets. Machine-oriented approaches, being agnostic to human consumption, optimize these aspects even further. Such summaries have already been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Francisco Raposo , David Martins de Matos , Ricardo Ribeiro

Several generic summarization algorithms were developed in the past and successfully applied in fields such as text and speech summarization. In this paper, we review and apply these algorithms to music. To evaluate this summarization's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Francisco Raposo , Ricardo Ribeiro , David Martins de Matos

A music mashup combines audio elements from two or more songs to create a new work. To reduce the time and effort required to make them, researchers have developed algorithms that predict the compatibility of audio elements. Prior work has…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Jiawen Huang , Ju-Chiang Wang , Jordan B. L. Smith , Xuchen Song , Yuxuan Wang

Existing AI Music composition tools are limited in generation duration, musical quality, and controllability. We introduce CoComposer, a multi-agent system that consists of five collaborating agents, each with a task based on the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Peiwen Xing , Aske Plaat , Niki van Stein

Gradient-type distributed optimization methods have blossomed into one of the most important tools for solving a minimization learning task over a networked agent system. However, only one gradient update per iteration is difficult to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Mou Wu , Haibin Liao , Zhengtao Ding , Yonggang Xiao

Most musical programming languages are developed purely for coding virtual instruments or algorithmic compositions. Although there has been some work in the domain of musical query languages for music information retrieval, there has been…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Donya Quick , Clayton T. Morrison

We introduce harmonization, an ensembling method that combines several "noisy" decoders to generate highly accurate decoding predictions. Harmonized ensembles of MWPM-based decoders achieve lower logical error rates than their individual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Noah Shutty , Michael Newman , Benjamin Villalonga

Despite the recent increase in research on artificial intelligence for music, prominent correlations between key components of lyrics and rhythm such as keywords, stressed syllables, and strong beats are not frequently studied. This is…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Callie C. Liao , Duoduo Liao , Jesse Guessford

The generation of musically coherent and aesthetically pleasing harmony remains a significant challenge in the field of algorithmic composition. This paper introduces an innovative Agentic AI-enabled Higher Harmony Music Generator, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Nia D'Souza Ganapathy , Arul Selvamani Shaja

Audio-to-score alignment is a long-standing challenge in music information retrieval and arguably the most widely applicable alignment task for music research. Alignment algorithms match two versions of a piece of music, and for this to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Silvan Peter , Patricia Hu , Gerhard Widmer

Melody reduction, as an abstract representation of musical compositions, serves not only as a tool for music analysis but also as an intermediate representation for structured music generation. Prior computational theories, such as the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ziyu Wang , Yuxuan Wu , Roger B. Dannenberg , Gus Xia

We contribute a pop-song automation framework for lead melody generation and accompaniment arrangement. The framework reflects the major procedures of human music composition, generating both lead melody and piano accompaniment by a unified…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Ziyu Wang , Gus Xia

Automated music playlist continuation is a common task of music recommender systems, that generally consists in providing a fitting extension to a given playlist. Collaborative filtering models, that extract abstract patterns from curated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Andreu Vall , Matthias Dorfer , Markus Schedl , Gerhard Widmer

Dynamic systems have found their use in sound synthesis as well as score synthesis. These levels can be integrated in monolithic autonomous systems in a novel approach to algorithmic composition that shares certain aesthetic motivations…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Risto Holopainen

Music Structure Analysis (MSA) consists of representing a song in sections (such as ``chorus'', ``verse'', ``solo'' etc), and can be seen as the retrieval of a simplified organization of the song. This work presents a new algorithm, called…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Axel Marmoret , Jérémy E. Cohen , Frédéric Bimbot

In this paper, we introduce an agent-based model for coalition formation which is suitable for our usecase. We propose here two clearing-houses mechanisms that return sound matchings. The first aims at maximizing the global satisfaction of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Maxime Morge , Antoine Nongaillard

Based on a review of anecdotal beliefs, we explored patterns of track-sequencing within professional music albums. We found that songs with high levels of valence, energy and loudness are more likely to be positioned at the beginning of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Pedro Neto , Martin Hartmann , Geoff Luck , Petri Toiviainen

Music similarity is an essential aspect of music retrieval, recommendation systems, and music analysis. Moreover, similarity is of vital interest for music experts, as it allows studying analogies and influences among composers and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Andrea Poltronieri

The large size of nowadays' online multimedia databases makes retrieving their content a difficult and time-consuming task. Users of online sound collections typically submit search queries that express a broad intent, often making the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Xavier Favory , Frederic Font , Xavier Serra

Aggregating different pieces of similar information is necessary to generate concise and easy to understand reports in technical domains. This paper presents a general algorithm that combines similar messages in order to generate one or…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 James Shaw