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