arXiv AI

LEGATO 2: Toward Multimodal Sheet Music Recognition and Understanding

arXiv:2607. 05769v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a novel pipeline, Legato 2, for extracting symbolic notation and semantic knowledge from images of sheet music.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Instrument Classification of Solo Sheet Music Images

This paper investigates instrument classification using solo sheet music images rather than audio. It converts images into sequences of musical words via bootleg score representation and treats the task as text classification, training AWD‑LSTM, GPT‑2, and RoBERTa models on IMSLP data for eight instruments. Pretraining on unlabeled data and fine‑tuning improves RoBERTa’s accuracy from 34.5% to 42.9%, and two proposed data‑augmentation methods raise accuracy by an additional 15%.

By Kevin Ji, Daniel Yang, TJ Tsai
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17

MIDI-RAE-JEPA: Hierarchical Representation Learning and Generation for Symbolic Music

arXiv:2607. 14537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rich internal representations of musical structure are essential for music understanding tasks such as machine-assisted music co-writing, yet self-supervised approaches for symbolic music representation remain underexplored, particularly those that encode the hierarchical multiscale nature of musical structures.

By Scott H. Hawley
arXiv AI
Jun 8

FIGMA: Towards FIne-Grained Music retrievAl

arXiv:2606. 06615v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieving music using natural language descriptions has improved with contrastive audio-text models such as CLAP, but current systems remain limited to coarse semantic queries.

By Nishit Anand, Ashish Seth, Sreyan Ghosh, Dinesh Manocha, Ramani Duraiswami
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Audio-FLAN: An Instruction-Following Dataset for Unified Audio Understanding and Generation of Speech, Music, and Sound

arXiv:2502. 16584v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advancements in audio tokenization have significantly enhanced the integration of audio capabilities into large language models (LLMs).

By Liumeng Xue, Ziya Zhou, Jiahao Pan, Zixuan Li, Shuai Fan, Yinghao Ma, Sitong Cheng, Dongchao Yang, Haohan Guo, Yujia Xiao, Xinsheng Wang, Zixuan Shen, Chuanbo Zhu, Xinshen Zhang, Tianchi Liu, Ruibin Yuan, Zeyue Tian, Haohe Liu, Xingjian Du, Emmanouil Benetos, Ge Zhang, Yike Guo, Wei Xue
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

CHORDONOMICON: A Dataset of 666,000 Songs and their Chord Progressions

Chordonomicon is a new dataset of over 666,000 song-level symbolic chord progressions, each annotated with structural parts such as verse, chorus, and bridge, as well as genre and release date. The dataset was compiled by scraping user-generated progressions from multiple sources and shows strong similarity to established prior datasets. The authors also provide a reproducible benchmark suite for next chord prediction, evaluating RNN, GRU, and LSTM models across various context windows and data scales, and find that structural part annotations consistently improve prediction performance.

By Spyridon Kantarelis, Ioannis Liolitsas, Konstantinos Thomas, Vassilis Lyberatos, Edmund Dervakos, Giorgos Stamou