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In this paper, we propose a novel approach for generating music based on an artificial intelligence (AI) system. We analyze the features of music and use them to fit and predict the music. The fractional Fourier transform (FrFT) and the…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Li Ya , Chen Wei , Li Xiulai , Yu Lei , Deng Xinyi , Chen Chaofan

Generative models trained at scale can now produce text, video, and more recently, scientific data such as crystal structures. In applications of generative approaches to materials science, and in particular to crystal structures, the…

Creating music is iterative, requiring varied methods at each stage. However, existing AI music systems fall short in orchestrating multiple subsystems for diverse needs. To address this gap, we introduce Loop Copilot, a novel system that…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yixiao Zhang , Akira Maezawa , Gus Xia , Kazuhiko Yamamoto , Simon Dixon

Recently, symbolic music generation has become a focus of numerous deep learning research. Structure as an important part of music, contributes to improving the quality of music, and an increasing number of works start to study the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yishan Lv , Jing Luo , Boyuan Ju , Xinyu Yang

Understanding the structural characteristics of harmony is essential for an effective use of music as a communication medium. Of the three expressive axes of music (melody, rhythm, harmony), harmony is the foundation on which the emotional…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Maria Rojo González , Simone Santini

We develop a multidimensional version of Gradient-MUSIC for estimating the frequencies of a nonharmonic signal from noisy samples. The guiding principle is that frequency recovery should be based only on the signal subspace determined by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Albert Fannjiang , Weilin Li

Machine learning is the capacity of a computational system to learn structures from datasets in order to make predictions on newly seen data. Such an approach offers a significant advantage in music scenarios in which musicians can teach…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Rebecca Fiebrink , Baptiste Caramiaux

While music generation models have evolved to handle complex multimodal inputs mixing text, lyrics, and reference audio, evaluation mechanisms have lagged behind. In this paper, we bridge this critical gap by establishing a comprehensive…

The ability to continually learn, retain and deploy skills to accomplish goals is a key feature of intelligent and efficient behavior. However, the neural mechanisms facilitating the continual learning and flexible (re-)composition of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Haozhe Shan , Sun Minni , Lea Duncker

Music comprises of a set of complex simultaneous events organized in time. In this paper we introduce a novel framework that we call Deep Musical Information Dynamics, which combines two parallel streams - a low rate latent representation…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Shlomo Dubnov

This paper presents a novel rule-based approach for generating music by varying existing tunes. We parse each tune to find the Pathway Assembly (PA) [ 1], that is a structure representing all repetitions in the tune. The Sequitur algorithm…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Maziar Kanani , Sean O Leary , James McDermott

Enhancing the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to interpret sheet music is a crucial step toward building AI musicians. However, current research lacks both evaluation benchmarks and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zhilin Wang , Zhe Yang , Yun Luo , Yafu Li , Xiaoye Qu , Ziqian Qiao , Haoran Zhang , Runzhe Zhan , Derek F. Wong , Jizhe Zhou , Yu Cheng

Human usually composes music by organizing elements according to the musical form to express music ideas. However, for neural network-based music generation, it is difficult to do so due to the lack of labelled data on musical form. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Peiling Lu , Xu Tan , Botao Yu , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to construct self-contained chunks of knowledge and adequately reuse them in novel combinations for solving different yet structurally related problems. Learning such compositional structures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Jorge A. Mendez , Eric Eaton

We explore the use of a neural network inspired by predictive coding for modeling human music perception. This network was developed based on the computational neuroscience theory of recurrent interactions in the hierarchical visual cortex.…

This pictorial aims to critically consider the nature of text-to-audio and text-to-music generative tools in the context of explainable AI. As a group of experimental musicians and researchers, we are enthusiastic about the creative…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Jesse Allison , Drew Farrar , Treya Nash , Carlos Román , Morgan Weeks , Fiona Xue Ju

Symbolic music generation has attracted increasing attention, while most methods focus on generating short piece (mostly less than 8 bars, and up to 32 bars). Generating long music calls for effective expression of the coherent music…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Ning Zhang , Junchi Yan

Generating musical audio directly with neural networks is notoriously difficult because it requires coherently modeling structure at many different timescales. Fortunately, most music is also highly structured and can be represented as…

Predicting stable and metastable structures is central to molecular and materials discovery, but remains limited by the cost of searching high-dimensional energy landscapes. Deep generative models offer efficient structure sampling, yet…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yifang Qin , Yu Shi , Junfu Tan , Chang Liu , Ming Zhang , Ziheng Lu

Sequence modeling with neural networks has lead to powerful models of symbolic music data. We address the problem of exploiting these models to reach creative musical goals, by combining with human input. To this end we generalise previous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Christian Walder , Dongwoo Kim