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: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
arXiv:2509. 04899v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) are energy-based models originating from statistical physics, in which hidden units mediate the probability distribution of high-dimensional visible configurations.
By Mutsumi Kobayashi, Hiroshi Watanabe
arXiv:2608. 03920v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans recognize a musical passage even when it is shifted in time or transposed in pitch, indicating a notion of equivariance in the representation space.
By Zixun Guo, Simon Dixon
arXiv:2607. 22413v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sample retrieval tools can help composers find harmonically compatible material, but querying from a fixed reference sample becomes less informative as arrangements evolve and the harmonic context shifts with each musical decision.
By Austin Rockman
arXiv:2511. 05350v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We argue that training autoencoders to reconstruct inputs from noised versions of their encodings, when combined with perceptually motivated losses, yields encodings that are structured according to a perceptual hierarchy.
By Mathias Rose Bjare, Giorgia Cantisani, Marco Pasini, Stefan Lattner, Gerhard Widmer
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:2607. 03806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio foundation models are widely adopted as general-purpose feature extractors, yet the internal structure of their learned representations remains insufficiently understood.
By H\'ector Martel, Joe Hennessy-Priest, Taemin Cho
arXiv:2608. 03050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What is music style?
By Jingwei Zhao, Gus Xia, Ziyu Wang, Ye Wang
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.
By Dmitrii Gavrilev, Ilya Borovik, Vladimir Viro
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
arXiv:2608. 18025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GPT-style models achieve strong performance by representing language with finite vocabularies of reusable discrete tokens.
By Yi Wang