MuQ-Eval is an open‑source per‑sample quality metric for AI‑generated music that uses frozen MuQ‑310M features and a lightweight prediction head trained on the MusicEval dataset. The simplest model—attention‑pooled frozen features plus a two‑layer MLP—achieves high correlation with human judgments (system‑level SRCC = 0.957, utterance‑level SRCC = 0.838). The metric is real‑time on a single consumer GPU, outperforms existing open per‑sample metrics, and supports personalized evaluators via LoRA adaptation on as few as 150 clips.
arXiv:2603. 00610v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While music generation models have evolved to handle complex multimodal inputs mixing text, lyrics, and reference audio, evaluation mechanisms have lagged behind.
TUTTI is a new pre‑training framework for audio‑to‑score transcription that uses a large, fully synthetic multi‑instrument dataset generated by a symbolic music model. The approach trains a standard Transformer encoder‑decoder on these synthetic audio‑score pairs, producing a stronger foundational representation than single‑instrument training. When fine‑tuned on real datasets, TUTTI surpasses prior methods, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results and demonstrating strong cross‑instrument transferability.
arXiv:2608. 06165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing audio-to-score (A2S) systems primarily focus on classical music, and the application to popular music remains underexplored.
Generalizable Audio-to-Score (A2S) transcription is fundamentally constrained by the severe scarcity of high-quality, real-world paired data. Relying solely on existing human-annotated datasets often...
arXiv:2607. 27909v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Objective evaluation of expressive MIDI piano performances typically relies on attribute statistics such as timing, velocity, and duration of individual notes.
arXiv:2605. 03395v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Music popularity prediction has attracted growing research interest, with relevance to artists, platforms, and recommendation systems.
Gangqinpu is a large, multi‑genre piano dataset that provides aligned audio, MIDI, and musical scores for 18,786 pieces, covering pop, classical, jazz, folk/traditional, rock, and blues. The dataset includes automatic note‑level alignments, beat/downbeat annotations, genre labels, and a binary classifier to filter non‑expressive performances. It is designed to reduce data leakage with ASAP splits and has shown cross‑dataset improvements in beat tracking and in‑domain gains for transcription and expressive performance rendering.
arXiv:2608. 14916v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI-generated music detectors are commonly evaluated against original songs, but real-world uploads are often remixed, re-encoded, pitch-shifted, or otherwise edited.
arXiv:2607. 23395v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Music Source Separation (MSS), the task of recovering individual sound components (stems) from a polyphonic mixture, is central to applications ranging from karaoke and remixing to audio restoration and content production.
arXiv:2606. 17006v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce TuneJury, an open, instance-level pairwise reward model for text-to-music that predicts a music preference score from a text prompt and an audio clip.
MUUNRiver-Bench is a diagnostic benchmark for music retrieval that uses natural‑language instructions to define relevance for reference‑audio queries. It contains 3,440 tracks across 13 genres and 116 sub‑genres and covers seven tasks such as similar‑music, style‑preserving lyric‑rewriting, cover, and segment retrieval. Experiments with six models in eight configurations show that acoustic encoders favor local identity while text‑aligned encoders favor semantic relations, and that instruction‑aware and audio‑text fusion systems do not consistently outperform their backbones.
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.