Predicting dance hits from 1985-2013 using musical features.
problem Predicting which songs will be dance hits.
method Built a database of dance hit songs with features, used multiple classifiers.
result Best model predicts top 10 dance hits with good accuracy.
The paper tackles carousel personalization in music streaming apps using contextual bandits.
problem Selecting relevant items to display in carousels for personalized content recommendation.
method Modeling carousel personalization as a contextual multi-armed bandit problem with multiple plays, cascade-based updates and delayed batch feedback.
result Empirically shows the effectiveness of the framework in capturing characteristics of real-world carousels.
A model classifies music genres from MP3 files using metric learning and feature extraction.
problem Classifying music genres from MP3 files efficiently and accurately.
method Metric learning and feature extraction using MFCC and PCA.
result Promising results in classification accuracy compared to baseline algorithms.
Adversarial attacks can fool copyright detection systems.
problem Vulnerability of copyright detection systems to adversarial attacks.
method Used gradient methods to create adversarial music that fooled detection systems.
result Adversarial attacks can successfully deceive industrial copyright detection tools.
Deep learning with neural networks is applied by an increasing number of people outside of classic research environments, due to the vast success of the methodology on a wide range of machine perception tasks. While this interest is fueled by beautiful success stories, practical work in deep learning on novel tasks wit…
New system for automatic music emotion recognition considers multiple emotions simultaneously.
problem Automatic recognition of simultaneous and multiplicity of emotions in music.
method Comparison of multilabel and multiclass machine learning algorithms on the Emotify dataset.
result The Geneva Emotional Music Scale 9 is adopted for multilabel and multiclass classification of music emotions.
MuLan links music audio to natural language tags.
problem Traditional music tagging systems use rigid attributes; MuLan aims to link audio directly to natural language.
method Joint audio-text embedding model trained on 44 million music recordings and text annotations.
result MuLan's embeddings enable zero-shot functionalities and transfer learning.
Model generates music to connect missing parts, leveraging latent space of VAE.
problem Music inpainting from missing or lost information.
method Deep learning model using VAE latent space and RNN to traverse latent space conditioned on past and future musical contexts.
result Model generates meaningful music inpaintings, connecting musical excerpts.
Trains word embeddings from music and text data to link music contexts.
problem Varying vocabulary size and musical relevance in word embeddings.
method Combines general text and music-specific data to train word embeddings.
result Trained embeddings better associate music contexts with compositions.
A model for hit song prediction can be used in the pop music industry to identify emerging trends and potential artists or songs before they are marketed to the public. While most previous work formulates hit song prediction as a regression or classification problem, we present in this paper a convolutional neural netw…
Music SketchNet generates missing measures in incomplete music pieces, guided by user input.
problem Generating missing measures in incomplete monophonic musical pieces.
method Introducing SketchVAE for factorized representation of rhythm and pitch, and two discriminative architectures for guided music completion.
result Our approach outperforms state-of-the-art models in both objective and subjective evaluations.
Dual-track model generates classical piano music better than other methods.
problem Generating inter-dependent piano music.
method Dual-track architecture with various neural network models and music representations.
result Proposed model outperforms other methods in evaluation.
System composes polyphonic music using LSTM and RL.
problem Complex polyphonic music composition.
method Divided music into monophonic streams, trained LSTM to generate sequences, used RL to find pleasant compositions.
result System generates intricate melodies, chords, and contrapuntal sequences.
The study uses music chords to predict Brazilian music genres.
problem Classifying popular Brazilian music genres based on harmonic structures.
method Extracted and engineered harmonically related features from chords data, used random forest model for classification.
result Features from harmonic elements can predict Brazilian music genres.
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 music aligned with musical rules. The probabilistic model presented is a Bi-axial LS…
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 from the predicted chord progression. The generated music sounds pleasing and harm…
Recently, digital music libraries have been developed and can be plainly accessed. Latest research showed that current organization and retrieval of music tracks based on album information are inefficient. Moreover, they demonstrated that people use emotion tags for music tracks in order to search and retrieve them. In…
Adversarial autoencoder improves music latent space learning.
problem Learning effective latent spaces for symbolic music data.
method Adversarial regularization with Gaussian mixtures.
result MusAE outperforms standard VAEs in reconstruction and interpolation.
As deep learning advances, 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 that can generate music scores in many styles given sufficient training data. To adapt BachProp to a…
Music generation research has grown in popularity over the past decade, thanks to the deep learning revolution that has redefined the landscape of artificial intelligence. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to music generation inspired by musical segment concatenation methods and hash learning algorithms. Given…
Bi-LSTM with attention generates jazz music with rich nuances.
problem Challenges in producing realistic music with structure and rationality.
method Deep learning, Bi-directional Long Short Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) Neural Network with Attention.
result Bi-LSTMs with attention preserve the richness and technical nuances of old style music.
Generative model creates realistic dance poses from music.
problem Generating human-like dance poses from music.
method Music feature encoder, pose generator, music genre classifier integrated.
result Generative autoregressive model synthesizes dance sequences up to 5,000 frames.
Generating music medleys is about finding an optimal permutation of a given set of music clips. Toward this goal, we propose a self-supervised learning task, called the music puzzle game, to train neural network models to learn the sequential patterns in music. In essence, such a game requires machines to correctly sor…
This research improves neural synthesizers for music sounds from speech data.
problem Applying speech synthesis techniques to musical instrument sounds.
method Comparison of three neural synthesizers in three scenarios: training, zero-shot learning, and fine-tuning.
result Neural synthesizers trained on speech data and fine-tuned on music data perform better.
Anticipatory model generates music with control over events.
problem Controlling symbolic music generation.
method Interleaving event and control sequences to predict future events.
result Anticipatory model matches autoregressive models in performance and can infill control tasks.
We introduce MIDI-VAE, a neural network model based on Variational Autoencoders that is capable of handling polyphonic music with multiple instrument tracks, as well as modeling the dynamics of music by incorporating note durations and velocities. We show that MIDI-VAE can perform style transfer on symbolic music by au…
We explore the potential of a popular distributional semantics vector space model, word2vec, for capturing meaningful relationships in ecological (complex polyphonic) music. More precisely, the skip-gram version of word2vec is used to model slices of music from a large corpus spanning eight musical genres. In this newl…
The paper models musical motif transformations in Beethoven's works.
problem Understanding how motifs transform in symbolic music.
method Developed a probabilistic framework using Conditional Random Fields.
result Identified patterns of motif transformations and their co-occurrences.
EC^2-VAE generates music analogies by disentangling pitch and rhythm representations.
problem Disentangling music representations for generating creative analogies.
method Explicitly-constrained variational autoencoder (EC^2-VAE) for disentangling pitch and rhythm representations.
result EC^2-VAE enables the generation of music analogies by borrowing representations from different pieces.
Paper compares XGB and BPNN for music style classification.
problem Efficient music style classification using different methods.
method Feature extraction for timbral texture, rhythmic content, and pitch content; comparative evaluation of XGB and BPNN.
result XGB outperforms BPNN for small datasets in music classification.
The study assesses music as an investment asset class using discounted cashflow models.
problem Quantifying the risk and return characteristics of music royalty assets.
method Fitting three discounted cashflow models to Royalty Exchange platform transactions and backtesting performance.
result Life of Rights music assets had risk and return characteristics comparable to stocks in the S\&P500 over 5 years.
ragamAI uses machine learning to create concert recitals for Carnatic music.
problem Creating a comprehensive listening experience for Carnatic music concerts.
method Playlist and session-based recommender models, leveraging mathematical structure in past concerts.
result ragamAI generates concert recitals that perform 25%-50% better than baseline models.
Study develops supervised algorithm for symbolic music style translation.
problem Transforming musical style while maintaining original content.
method Synthetic data generation for aligned training data, encoder-decoder model.
result Trained models produce meaningful accompaniments for real MIDI recordings.
Realistic music generation is a challenging task. When building generative models of music that are learnt from data, typically high-level representations such as scores or MIDI are used that abstract away the idiosyncrasies of a particular performance. But these nuances are very important for our perception of musical…
Transformer improves pop piano composition by incorporating beat-based structure.
problem Generating expressive pop piano compositions with coherent rhythmic structure.
method Improved data representation for Transformers, incorporating beat-bar-phrase structure.
result Composes pop piano music with better rhythmic structure than existing models.
Paper proposes LSTM for automatic music generation.
problem Generating music without human intervention.
method Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), specifically LSTM.
result Model generates new melodies with high accuracy.
FIGARO generates symbolic music with fine-grained control.
problem Minimal control over generated music sequences.
method Description-to-sequence task, learning conditional distribution of sequences given high-level descriptions.
result State-of-the-art controllable symbolic music generation.
A new neural network separates vocals from music accompaniment.
problem Separating vocals from music accompaniment in recordings.
method Self-attention convolutional neural network (CNN) with densely-connected blocks.
result 19.5% relative improvement in vocals separation.
Real music signals are highly variable, yet they have strong statistical structure. Prior information about the underlying physical mechanisms by which sounds are generated and rules by which complex sound structure is constructed (notes, chords, a complete musical score), can be naturally unified using Bayesian modell…
Deep generative models such as Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have recently been applied to style and domain transfer for images, and in the case of VAEs, music. GAN-based models employing several generators and some form of cycle consistency loss have been among the most suc…
We present a method for translating music across musical instruments, genres, and styles. This method is based on a multi-domain wavenet autoencoder, with a shared encoder and a disentangled latent space that is trained end-to-end on waveforms. Employing a diverse training dataset and large net capacity, the domain-ind…
Graph neural networks improve music genre classification on audio datasets.
problem Difficulty in applying deep learning on spectrograms due to lack of quality data and augmentation.
method Combination of CNN and Graph Neural Networks (GNN) with Siamese Neural Networks.
result Achieved state-of-the-art results on GTZAN and AudioSet datasets.
Generating music has a few notable differences from generating images and videos. First, music is an art of time, necessitating a temporal model. Second, music is usually composed of multiple instruments/tracks with their own temporal dynamics, but collectively they unfold over time interdependently. Lastly, musical no…
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 collection of concurrent, coupled sequences: i.e. voices. To model the conditional distri…
Aug-Gen improves music generation by augmenting training data with model-produced examples.
problem Lack of high-quality training data for specific musical styles.
method Dataset augmentation using generated examples during training.
result Aug-Gen improves both training duration and quality of generated music.
This paper explores deep learning in music generation, from history to current techniques.
problem Creating music automatically using deep learning.
method Analysis of historical and recent deep learning music generation systems.
result Deep learning can learn musical styles and generate music samples.
Neural nets classify Thai Lukthung songs from other genres.
problem Classifying Thai Lukthung songs for personalized music recommendations.
method Developed neural networks using lyrics and audio features.
result Combined model yields F1 score of 0.86 for Lukthung classification. SVM classifier outperforms other models in classifying musical instruments from IRMAS data.
problem Musical instrument classification from audio signals.
method Implemented supervised (SVM) and unsupervised (Hierarchical Clustering) learning algorithms.
result SVM classifier achieved 79% accuracy on IRMAS data.