arXiv Machine Learning

PianoKontext: Expressive Performance Rendering from Deadpan Context

arXiv:2606. 12282v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Expressive performance rendering (EPR) aims to generate realistic performances constrained on sequences of notes.

arXiv AI
Jun 26

Pianist Transformer: Towards Expressive Piano Performance Rendering via Scalable Self-Supervised Pre-Training

arXiv:2512. 02652v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing methods for expressive music performance rendering, a conditional generation task that aims to generate a human-like performance from a symbolic score, rely on supervised learning over small labeled datasets, which limits scaling of both data volume and model size, despite the availability of vast unlabeled music, as in vision and language.

By Hong-Jie You, Jie-Jing Shao, Xiao-Wen Yang, Lin-Han Jia, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li
arXiv AI
Sep 17

CPR: Combining global composing, local performing and full-sequence refining in piano rendering with continuous autoregressive modelling

The paper introduces CPR, a piano rendering framework that combines continuous autoregressive modeling with local flow matching and full‑sequence refinement. It predicts continuous hidden states, generates 24 kHz acoustic latents, and upsamples to 48 kHz, while new techniques BREPA and MT‑RoPE enhance musical semantics and cross‑modal alignment.

By Chong Jing, Junan Zhang, Zhizheng Wu
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

Synthesis and editing of multi-instrument audio mixtures using scalar-quantised latents with MIDI Span conditioning

SpanSynth-Edit is a flow‑matching model that enables MIDI‑guided synthesis and editing of multi‑instrument audio mixtures using low‑frame‑rate scalar‑quantised latents. It encodes instrument‑labelled note lifecycles as unordered event sets, pools them into a conditioning vector per audio‑latent frame, and uses contextual audio for instrument‑specific timbre guidance. The model supports editing by resynthesising target regions from revised MIDI and demonstrates competitive performance on single‑ and multi‑instrument benchmarks, including within‑frame onset control.

By Sungkyun Chang, Keshav Bhandari, Simon Dixon, Emmanouil Benetos
arXiv AI
Jul 23

Pushing the Frontier of Full-Song Generation: Hierarchical Autoregressive Planning Meets Flow-Matching Rendering

arXiv:2607. 20253v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this report, we present a unified song generation framework capable of producing high-quality full-length music from lyrics, text descriptions, and musical attributes.

By Junyu Dai, Xinyue Fan, Weiqin Li, Xiangang Li, Yunjia Li, Bin Ma, Yukun Ma, Chongjia Ni, Yufei Shi, Haoxu Wang, Menglin Wu, Jianwei Yu, Huaicheng Zhang, Han Zhao, Shengkui Zhao, Haina Zhu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 22

Pushing the Frontier of Full-Song Generation: Hierarchical Autoregressive Planning Meets Flow-Matching Rendering

In this report, we present a unified song generation framework capable of producing high-quality full-length music from lyrics, text descriptions, and musical attributes. The proposed framework supports three tasks: Lyrics-to-Song Generation, which generates complete songs from text descriptions, lyrics, and musical attributes; Instrumental Music Generation, which creates music without vocals; and Cover Song Generation, which reinterprets existing songs with different styles while preserving their melodic content.

arXiv AI
Aug 20

Whole-Piece Training for Symbolic Music Language Models via Full-Horizon Compressed Recurrence

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