arXiv:2607. 01849v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Musical performance involves executing a set of high-level musical instructions, yet recovering those instructions from the performance is a challenging inverse problem.
By Yewon Kim, Apurva Gandhi, David Chung, Graham Neubig, Chris Donahue
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:2606. 18790v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer-based architectures have significantly advanced the generation of complex symbolic sequences, yet a significant gap remains in achieving fine-grained, interpretable control over discrete signal attributes.
By Ioannis Prokopiou, Pantelis Vikatos, Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, Theodoros Giannakopoulos, Themos Stafylakis
arXiv:2606. 03169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent song generation systems can synthesize realistic audio, yet generating complete songs remains challenging for two reasons.
By Xiaoyue Duan, Nanxing Hu, Yutang Feng, Xudong Yan, Jiatao Chen, Jinchao Zhang, Jie Zhou
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