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A Hybrid Framework for Song Lyric Annotation Based on Human-LLM Alignment

arXiv:2606. 29273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emotion recognition of song lyrics is a challenging task since lyrics may not necessarily align with the overall emotion of a song.

arXiv Machine Learning
5d 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
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

A Repeated-Measurement Study for Cultural Analytics of English Song Lyrics Using Five Large Language Models

The paper evaluates five large language models as zero‑shot annotators of four social constructs—self‑esteem, self‑control, seeking belonging, and seeking recognition—in English song lyrics. It examines repeated‑measurement reliability, cross‑model convergence, and the transferability of consensus labels to supervised classification. Results show varying reliability across constructs, with self‑esteem being most stable and seeking recognition least stable, and indicate that consensus labels contain learnable signal for downstream tasks.

By E. Cho Smith, Samuel Ho, Dawn Laux
arXiv AI
Jun 12

CMI-RewardBench: Evaluating Music Reward Models with Compositional Multimodal Instruction

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.

By Yinghao Ma, Haiwen Xia, Hewei Gao, Weixiong Chen, Yuxin Ye, Yuchen Yang, Sungkyun Chang, Mingshuo Ding, Yizhi Li, Ruibin Yuan, Simon Dixon, Emmanouil Benetos
arXiv AI
3d ago

Towards Unified Music Emotion Recognition across Dimensional and Categorical Models

The paper introduces a unified multitask learning framework for Music Emotion Recognition that simultaneously handles categorical and dimensional emotion labels, enabling training across multiple datasets. It leverages musical features such as key and chords, MERT embeddings, and employs knowledge distillation from teacher models to a student model to improve generalization. Experiments on MTG‑Jamendo, DEAM, PMEmo, and EmoMusic show that this approach outperforms state‑of‑the‑art models, including the top MediaEval 2021 entry.

By Jaeyong Kang, Dorien Herremans