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:2606. 14612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We show that the three movements of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" (Op.
By Chen Ying Claude, Zhihan Luo
arXiv:2607. 12417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although vast amounts of data, such as audio signal spectra, are naturally represented using complex numbers, conventional machine learning methods often simplify complex-domain problems by employing frameworks designed for real-valued variables.
By Toru Nakashika, Kohei Yatabe
arXiv:2608. 04378v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Collaborative music agents need internal representations rich enough to support both understanding and generation, yet flexible enough for a workflow where the human retains agency.
By Scott H. Hawley
The paper introduces Whole-Piece Training for Symbolic Music Language Models using Full-Horizon Compressed Recurrence (FHCR), which maintains the full temporal horizon of recurrent memory while compressing its key-value representation to fit GPU limits. An evaluation diagnostic, KV-Reset Context Utilization (KRCU), demonstrates that full-horizon models retain long-range context beyond local windows, whereas limiting recurrent memory weakens this dependence. FHCR thus preserves long-range context utilization while significantly reducing recurrent memory cost, enabling efficient whole-piece modeling.
By Yungang Yi, Weihua Li, Matthew Kuo, Catherine Shi, Quan Bai
The paper explains why GPT‑style language models fail to transfer directly to symbolic music. It argues that success in language comes from tokenization that compresses data by creating a coordinate system where recurring patterns become predictable. For music, the authors propose that tokenization must build a predictively effective, relationally lossless coordinate system—defining Fact–Token and Token–State boundaries—to enable compression without sacrificing contextual freedom. Controlled experiments confirm that proper coordinate construction improves predictive compressibility, whereas mere sequence compaction does not.
By Yi Wang
arXiv:2607. 19776v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing symbolic music generation models typically use bars as the basic structural unit.
By Tieyao Zhang, Yuke Liu, Jiaxing Yu, Xinda Wu, Kejun Zhang, Genfang Chen
arXiv:2505. 11635v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many real-world tasks, from associative memory to symbolic reasoning, benefit from discrete, structured representations that standard continuous latent models can struggle to express.
By Nikhil Kapasi, Mohamed Elfouly, William Whitehead, Luke Theogarajan
arXiv:2610.01864v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: How can we understand what a music foundation model has learned \textit{internally}? Most interpretability approaches, such as probing and Sparse Aut...
By Liwei Lin, Gus Xia
arXiv:2607. 08545v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end neural audio models achieve high-fidelity compression and generation.
By Nicole Cosme-Clifford
arXiv:2608. 03050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What is music style?
By Jingwei Zhao, Gus Xia, Ziyu Wang, Ye Wang
arXiv:2606. 22726v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Choreographic motion generation poses unique challenges for AI, demanding precise semantic control over complex, temporally structured, and expressive full-body dynamics.
By Seong Jong Yoo, Siyuan Peng, Felix Gu, Stratis Aloimonos, Cornelia Ferm\"uller