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A model of music needs to have the ability to recall past details and have a clear, coherent understanding of musical structure. Detailed in the paper is a neural network architecture that predicts and generates polyphonic music aligned…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Nikhil Kotecha , Paul Young

We introduce a Maximum Entropy model able to capture the statistics of melodies in music. The model can be used to generate new melodies that emulate the style of the musical corpus which was used to train it. Instead of using the $n-$body…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-12 Jason Sakellariou , Francesca Tria , Vittorio Loreto , François Pachet

A model of music needs to have the ability to recall past details and have a clear, coherent understanding of musical structure. Detailed in the paper is a deep reinforcement learning architecture that predicts and generates polyphonic…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Nikhil Kotecha

The ability to automatically generate music that appropriately matches an arbitrary input track is a challenging task. We present a novel controllable system for generating single stems to accompany musical mixes of arbitrary length. At the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Marco Pasini , Maarten Grachten , Stefan Lattner

Western music is an innately hierarchical system of interacting levels of structure, from fine-grained melody to high-level form. In order to analyze music compositions holistically and at multiple granularities, we propose a unified,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Ilana Shapiro , Ruanqianqian Huang , Zachary Novack , Cheng-i Wang , Hao-Wen Dong , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov , Sorin Lerner

Symbolic Music Generation relies on the contextual representation capabilities of the generative model, where the most prevalent approach is the Transformer-based model. The learning of musical context is also related to the structural…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Guowei Wu , Shipei Liu , Xiaoya Fan

Existing work in automatic music generation has mostly focused on end-to-end systems that generate either entire compositions or continuations of pieces, which are difficult for composers to iterate on. The area of computer-assisted…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Christian Zhou-Zheng , Philippe Pasquier

Swarm dynamics is the study of collections of agents that interact with one another without central control. In natural systems, insects, birds, fish and other large mammals function in larger units to increase the overall fitness of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-02 Yu Sun , Louis F. Rossi , Chien-Chung Shen , Jennifer Miller , X. Rosalind Wang , Joseph T. Lizier , Mikhail Prokopenko , Upul Senanayake

Robot swarm is a hot spot in robotic research community. In this paper, we propose a decentralized framework for car-like robotic swarm which is capable of real-time planning in cluttered environments. In this system, path finding is guided…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Changjia Ma , Zhichao Han , Tingrui Zhang , Jingping Wang , Long Xu , Chengyang Li , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

Automatic service composition in mobile and pervasive computing faces many challenges due to the complex nature of the environment. Common approaches address service composition from optimization perspectives which are not feasible in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Oscar J. Romero

The challenge of finding a global optimum in a solution search space with limited resources and higher accuracy has given rise to several optimization algorithms. Generally, the gradient-based optimizers converge to the global solution very…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Subhrangshu Adhikary

Collective control of mobile microrobotic swarms is indispensable for their potential high-impact applications in targeted drug delivery, medical diagnostics, parallel micromanipulation, and environmental sensing and remediation. Lack of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-26 Berk Yigit , Yunus Alapan , Metin Sitti

This paper introduces a novel recurrent model for music composition that is tailored to the structure of polyphonic music. We propose an efficient new conditional probabilistic factorization of musical scores, viewing a score as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-28 John Thickstun , Zaid Harchaoui , Dean P. Foster , Sham M. Kakade

The network paradigm is used to gain insight into the structural root causes of the resilience of consensus in dynamic collective behaviors, and to analyze the controllability of the swarm dynamics. Here we devise the dynamic signaling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-01-14 Mohammad Komareji , Roland Bouffanais

The design of control systems for the spatial self-organization of mobile agents is an open challenge across several engineering domains, including swarm robotics and synthetic biology. Here, we propose a bio-inspired leader-follower…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Gian Carlo Maffettone , Alain Boldini , Mario di Bernardo , Maurizio Porfiri

Large Language Models (LLM) have shown encouraging progress in multimodal understanding and generation tasks. However, how to design a human-aligned and interpretable melody composition system is still under-explored. To solve this problem,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Xia Liang , Xingjian Du , Jiaju Lin , Pei Zou , Yuan Wan , Bilei Zhu

In this paper, we propose SwarmNet -- a neural network architecture that can learn to predict and imitate the behavior of an observed swarm of agents in a centralized manner. Tested on artificially generated swarm motion data, the network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Siyu Zhou , Mariano Phielipp , Jorge A. Sefair , Sara I. Walker , Heni Ben Amor

Several methods exist for a computer to generate music based on data including Markov chains, recurrent neural networks, recombinancy, and grammars. We explore the use of unit selection and concatenation as a means of generating music using…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Mason Bretan , Gil Weinberg , Larry Heck

Quorum sensing is a decentralized biological process, through which a community of cells with no global awareness coordinate their functional behaviors based solely on cell-medium interactions and local decisions. This paper draws…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-08 Feng Tan , Jean-Jacques Slotine

An emerging challenge in swarm shepherding research is to design effective and efficient artificial intelligence algorithms that maintain a low-computational ceiling while increasing the swarm's abilities to operate in diverse contexts. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Adam Hepworth , Aya Hussein , Darryn Reid , Hussein Abbass