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Progress in the task of symbolic music generation may be lagging behind other tasks like audio and text generation, in part because of the scarcity of symbolic training data. In this paper, we leverage the greater scale of audio music data…

Attention-based Transformer models have been increasingly employed for automatic music generation. To condition the generation process of such a model with a user-specified sequence, a popular approach is to take that conditioning sequence…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yi-Jen Shih , Shih-Lun Wu , Frank Zalkow , Meinard Müller , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Video-to-Music generation seeks to generate musically appropriate background music that enhances audiovisual immersion for videos. However, current approaches suffer from two critical limitations: 1) incomplete representation of video…

Pitch and meter are two fundamental music features for symbolic music generation tasks, where researchers usually choose different encoding methods depending on specific goals. However, the advantages and drawbacks of different encoding…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Yuqiang Li , Shengchen Li , George Fazekas

This study aims to enhance the quality of music generation using Transformers by incorporating meta-information. While Transformer-based approaches are effective at capturing long-term dependencies in musical compositions, the music they…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shinnosuke Taksuka , Hideo Mukai

We propose a pre-trained BERT-like model for symbolic music understanding that achieves competitive performance across a wide range of downstream tasks. To achieve this target, we design two novel pre-training objectives, namely token…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jun-You Wang , Li Su

Recent advances in generative models have made it possible to create high-quality, coherent music, with some systems delivering production-level output. Yet, most existing models focus solely on generating music from scratch, limiting their…

We tackle the task of conditional music generation. We introduce MusicGen, a single Language Model (LM) that operates over several streams of compressed discrete music representation, i.e., tokens. Unlike prior work, MusicGen is comprised…

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

Time-series forecasting is crucial for numerous real-world applications including weather prediction and financial market modeling. While temporal-domain methods remain prevalent, frequency-domain approaches can effectively capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhixuan Li , Naipeng Chen , Seonghwa Choi , Sanghoon Lee , Weisi Lin

Recently, some single-step systems without onset detection have shown their effectiveness in automatic musical tempo estimation. Following the success of these systems, in this paper we propose a Multi-scale Grouped Attention Network to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-06 Xiaoheng Sun , Qiqi He , Yongwei Gao , Wei Li

We introduce UniMuMo, a unified multimodal model capable of taking arbitrary text, music, and motion data as input conditions to generate outputs across all three modalities. To address the lack of time-synchronized data, we align unpaired…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Han Yang , Kun Su , Yutong Zhang , Jiaben Chen , Kaizhi Qian , Gaowen Liu , Chuang Gan

Rhythm transcription is a key subtask of notation-level Automatic Music Transcription (AMT). While deep learning models have been extensively used for detecting the metrical grid in audio and MIDI performances, beat-based rhythm…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Maximilian Wachter , Sebastian Murgul , Michael Heizmann

Symbolic melodies generation is one of the essential tasks for automatic music generation. Recently, models based on neural networks have had a significant influence on generating symbolic melodies. However, the musical context structure is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Jin Li , Haibin Liu , Nan Yan , Lan Wang

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in research related to the detection of piano pedals from audio signals in the music information retrieval community. However, to our best knowledge, recent generative models for symbolic music…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Joann Ching , Yi-Hsuan Yang

The massive growth of self-supervised learning (SSL) has been witnessed in language, vision, speech, and audio domains over the past few years. While discrete label prediction is widely adopted for other modalities, the state-of-the-art…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Chengyi Wang , Shujie Liu , Daniel Tompkins , Zhuo Chen , Furu Wei

Music generated by deep learning methods often suffers from a lack of coherence and long-term organization. Yet, multi-scale hierarchical structure is a distinctive feature of music signals. To leverage this information, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Manvi Agarwal , Changhong Wang , Gaël Richard

Current state-of-the-art AI based classical music creation algorithms such as Music Transformer are trained by employing single sequence of notes with time-shifts. The major drawback of absolute time interval expression is the difficulty of…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Xianchao Wu , Chengyuan Wang , Qinying Lei

Benefiting from large-scale datasets and pre-trained models, the field of generative models has recently gained significant momentum. However, most datasets for symbolic music are very small, which potentially limits the performance of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Shangda Wu , Maosong Sun

Autoregressive music generation depends strongly on the audio tokenizer. Existing high-fidelity codecs often use residual multi-codebook quantization, which preserves reconstruction quality but complicates language modeling after sequence…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yuqing Cheng , Xingyu Ma , Guochen Yu , Xiaotao Gu