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Procedural story generation (PCG) tailors a unique narrative experience for a player and can be accomplished via multiple techniques, from matching storylets to grammar-based generation. There exists a rich opportunity for evolutionary…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Erik M. Fredericks , Byron DeVries

Music is a powerful medium for altering the emotional state of the listener. In recent years, with significant advancement in computing capabilities, artificial intelligence-based (AI-based) approaches have become popular for creating…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Adyasha Dash , Kat R. Agres

This paper introduces the Procedural Content Generation Benchmark for evaluating generative algorithms on different game content creation tasks. The benchmark comes with 12 game-related problems with multiple variants on each problem.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Ahmed Khalifa , Roberto Gallotta , Matthew Barthet , Antonios Liapis , Julian Togelius , Georgios N. Yannakakis

Video games demand is constantly increasing, which requires the costly production of large amounts of content. Towards this challenge, researchers have developed Search-Based Procedural Content Generation (SBPCG), that is, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Mar Zamorano , Carlos Cetina , Federica Sarro

The video game industry has grown to a multi-billion dollar, worldwide industry. The background music tends adaptively in reference to the specific game content during the game length of the play. Adaptive music should be further explored…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Alamgir Naushad

Digital advances have transformed the face of automatic music generation since its beginnings at the dawn of computing. Despite the many breakthroughs, issues such as the musical tasks targeted by different machines and the degree to which…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Dorien Herremans , Ching-Hua Chuan , Elaine Chew

Music Generation (MG) is an interesting research topic that links the art of music and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The goal is to train an artificial composer to generate infinite, fresh, and pleasurable musical pieces. Music has…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Majid Farzaneh , Rahil Mahdian Toroghi

Quantum computers have long been more of a toy for researchers than a tool for solving complex problems. However, recent advances in the field make exploiting the advantages of fault-tolerant quantum computers feasible in the next 5 to 10…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Daniel Bultrini , James Wootton

Music is one of the Gardner's intelligences in his theory of multiple intelligences. How humans perceive and understand music is still being studied and is crucial to develop artificial intelligence models that imitate such processes. Music…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Carlos Hernandez-Olivan , Javier Hernandez-Olivan , Jose R. Beltran

In this work, we provide a comprehensive survey of AI music generation tools, including both research projects and commercialized applications. To conduct our analysis, we classified music generation approaches into three categories:…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Yueyue Zhu , Jared Baca , Banafsheh Rekabdar , Reza Rawassizadeh

Automatic Music Generation (AMG) has become an interesting research topic for many scientists in artificial intelligence, who are also interested in the music industry. One of the main challenges in AMG is that there is no clear objective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Maryam Majidi , Rahil Mahdian Toroghi

Task environments developed in Minecraft are becoming increasingly popular for artificial intelligence (AI) research. However, most of these are currently constructed manually, thus failing to take advantage of procedural content generation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Adarsh Pyarelal , Aditya Banerjee , Kobus Barnard

The burgeoning growth of video-to-music generation can be attributed to the ascendancy of multimodal generative models. However, there is a lack of literature that comprehensively combs through the work in this field. To fill this gap, this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Shulei Ji , Songruoyao Wu , Zihao Wang , Shuyu Li , Kejun Zhang

The attempt to utilize machine learning in PCG has been made in the past. In this survey paper, we investigate how generative artificial intelligence (AI), which saw a significant increase in interest in the mid-2010s, is being used for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Xinyu Mao , Wanli Yu , Kazunori D Yamada , Michael R. Zielewski

Music and language are structurally similar. Such structural similarity is often explained by generative processes. This paper describes the recent development of probabilistic generative models (PGMs) for language learning and symbol…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Tadahiro Taniguchi

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies continue to evolve, their use in generating realistic, contextually appropriate content has expanded into various domains. Music, an art form and medium for entertainment, deeply rooted into…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yupei Li , Manuel Milling , Lucia Specia , Björn W. Schuller

The development of generative Machine Learning (ML) models in creative practices, enabled by the recent improvements in usability and availability of pre-trained models, is raising more and more interest among artists, practitioners and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-17 Axel Chemla--Romeu-Santos , Philippe Esling

While recent generative models can produce engaging music, their utility is limited. The variation in the music is often left to chance, resulting in compositions that lack structure. Pieces extending beyond a minute can become incoherent…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Lilac Atassi

In video game design, audio (both environmental background music and object sound effects) play a critical role. Sounds are typically pre-created assets designed for specific locations or objects in a game. However, user-generated content…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Thomas Marrinan , Pakeeza Akram , Oli Gurmessa , Anthony Shishkin

Musical Metacreation tries to obtain creative behaviors from computers algorithms composing music. In this paper I briefly analyze how this field evolved from algorithmic composition to be focused on the search for creativity, and I point…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Filippo Carnovalini