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We propose a novel approach for the generation of polyphonic music based on LSTMs. We generate music in two steps. First, a chord LSTM predicts a chord progression based on a chord embedding. A second LSTM then generates polyphonic music…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Gino Brunner , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer , Jonas Wiesendanger

Algorithms implementing populations of agents which interact with one another and sense their environment may exhibit emergent behavior such as self-organization and swarm intelligence. Here a swarm system, called Databionic swarm (DBS), is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Michael C. Thrun , Alfred Ultsch

We propose Model Swarms, a collaborative search algorithm to adapt LLMs via swarm intelligence, the collective behavior guiding individual systems. Specifically, Model Swarms starts with a pool of LLM experts and a utility function. Guided…

This study proposes a system designed to enumerate the process of collaborative composition among humans, using automatic music composition technology. By integrating multiple Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) models, the system provides an…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-07 So Hirawata , Noriko Otani

We introduce DecompSR, decomposed spatial reasoning, a large benchmark dataset (over 5m datapoints) and generation framework designed to analyse compositional spatial reasoning ability. The generation of DecompSR allows users to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Lachlan McPheat , Navdeep Kaur , Robert Blackwell , Alessandra Russo , Anthony G. Cohn , Pranava Madhyastha

We consider a general swarm model of self-propelling agents interacting through a pairwise potential in the presence of noise and communication time delay. Previous work [Phys. Rev. E 77, 035203(R) (2008)] has shown that a communication…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-05-02 Luis Mier-y-Teran-Romero , Eric Forgoston , Ira B. Schwartz

Swarming behavior, where coherent motion emerges from the interactions of many mobile agents, is ubiquitous in physics and biology. Moreover, there are many efforts to replicate swarming dynamics in mobile robotic systems which take…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-04 Ira B. Schwartz , Victoria Edwards , Jason Hindes

Living organisms process information to interact and adapt to their changing environment with the goal of finding food, mates or averting hazards. The structure of their niche has profound repercussions by both selecting their internal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-07 Hannes Hornischer , Stephan Herminghaus , Marco G. Mazza

We present an experimental and theoretical study of 2-D swarms in which collective behavior emerges from both direct local mechanical coupling between agents and from the exchange and processing of information between agents. Each agent, an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-28 Shengkai Li , Trung V. Phan , Luca Di Carlo , Gao Wang , Van H. Do , Elia Mikhail , Robert H. Austin , Liyu Liu

Distributed scientific workflows increasingly span heterogeneous compute clusters, edge resources, and geo-distributed data repositories. In these environments, a centralized orchestrator is an architectural bottleneck -- introducing a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Komal Thareja , Krishnan Raghavan , Anirban Mandal , Ewa Deelman

Songs, as a central form of musical art, exemplify the richness of human intelligence and creativity. While recent advances in generative modeling have enabled notable progress in long-form song generation, current systems for full-length…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Huakang Chen , Yuepeng Jiang , Guobin Ma , Chunbo Hao , Shuai Wang , Jixun Yao , Ziqian Ning , Meng Meng , Jian Luan , Lei Xie

We propose an approach of open-ended evolution via the simulation of swarm dynamics. In nature, swarms possess remarkable properties, which allow many organisms, from swarming bacteria to ants and flocking birds, to form higher-order…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Olaf Witkowski , Takashi Ikegami

In collective decision-making, designing algorithms that use only local information to effect swarm-level behaviour is a non-trivial problem. We used machine learning techniques to teach swarm members to map their local perceptions of the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Chris Wise , Aya Hussein , Heba El-Fiqi

We investigate how machine learning models acquire the ability to compose music and how musical information is internally represented within such models. We develop a composition algorithm based on a restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM), a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Mutsumi Kobayashi , Hiroshi Watanabe

Swarm Intelligence (SI) is the property of a system whereby the collective behaviors of (unsophisticated) entities interacting locally with their environment cause coherent functional global patterns to emerge. SI provides a basis with wich…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos Fernandes , Vitorino Ramos , Agostinho C. Rosa

Hand in hand with deep learning advancements, algorithms of music composition increase in performance. However, most of the successful models are designed for specific musical structures. Here, we present BachProp, an algorithmic composer…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Florian Colombo , Wulfram Gerstner

Swarm intelligence is the collective behavior emerging in systems with locally interacting components. Because of their self-organization capabilities, swarm-based systems show essential properties for handling real-world problems such as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Marcos Oliveira , Diego Pinheiro , Mariana Macedo , Carmelo Bastos-Filho , Ronaldo Menezes

We introduce MusicFlow, a cascaded text-to-music generation model based on flow matching. Based on self-supervised representations to bridge between text descriptions and music audios, we construct two flow matching networks to model the…

Collective intelligence and autonomy of robot swarms can be improved by enabling the individual robots to become aware they are the constituent units of a larger whole and what is their role. In this study, we present an algorithm to enable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Michal Pluhacek , Simon Garnier , Andreagiovanni Reina

The biologically-inspired swarm paradigm is being used to design self-organizing systems of locally interacting artificial agents. A major difficulty in designing swarms with desired characteristics is understanding the causal relation…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Aram Galstyan , Tad Hogg , Kristina Lerman