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48 results for musical semantics

The paper tests deep music embeddings for semantic consistency.

problem Ensuring deep music embeddings capture meaningful musical semantics.
method Proposes a systematic method to test deep music representations for semantic consistency, considering both input audio space and latent deep space.
result Distance consistency between related points is maintained in both input audio space and latent deep space.

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.

Proposes COALA method for learning audio representations aligned with tags.

problem Lack of annotated data for high-performance audio representation learning.
method Aligns latent representations of audio and tags using a contrastive loss.
result Audio embedding model captures both acoustic and semantic characteristics.

Proposes CLSM for better subsequence generation in music sequences.

problem Editing subsequences in music sequences without losing context.
method Context-informed prior and decoder for generative model, context position-informed encoder for inference.
result Contextual latent space is smoother in interpolation and generates higher quality samples.

Unified framework recovers exact input from SOM activation patterns.

problem Generating high-dimensional data from Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs).
method Inverting SOM activation patterns to recover input, using linear system and Tikhonov regularization.
result MUSIC framework produces coherent semantic transitions and maintains high classifier confidence.

SOM-VQ tokenizes discrete models with semantic structure and navigable topology.

problem Lack of semantic structure in vector quantized representations limits interpretable human control.
method Combines vector quantization with Self-Organizing Maps to learn discrete codebooks with explicit topology.
result SOM-VQ produces more learnable token sequences and provides an explicit navigable geometry in code space.

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.

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.

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…

2017-09-17abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2018-12-17abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2018-05-30abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper improves universal sound separation using sound classification.

problem Separating acoustic sources from an open domain, regardless of their class.
method Utilizing semantic embeddings from a sound classifier to condition a separation network.
result Classifier embeddings provide nearly one dB of SNR gain, and iterative models achieve significant performance.

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…

2017-09-13abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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.

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.

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…

2016-06-03abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2018-09-20abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2018-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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…

2018-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗