arXiv Machine Learning September 17, 2026 By Kevin Ji, Daniel Yang, TJ Tsai

Instrument Classification of Solo Sheet Music Images

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This paper investigates instrument classification using solo sheet music images rather than audio. It converts images into sequences of musical words via bootleg score representation and treats the task as text classification, training AWD‑LSTM, GPT‑2, and RoBERTa models on IMSLP data for eight instruments. Pretraining on unlabeled data and fine‑tuning improves RoBERTa’s accuracy from 34.5% to 42.9%, and two proposed data‑augmentation methods raise accuracy by an additional 15%.

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