arXiv AI August 25, 2026 By Menghe Ma, Siqing Wei, Yuecheng Xing, Ziyue Zhu, Zhenghong Lin, Yaheng Wang, Fanhong Meng, Peijun Han, Luu Anh Tuan, Haoran Luo

ONOTE: Hypergraph-Grounded Omnimodal Reasoning for Computational Music Science

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ONOTE is a unified framework that treats music as a scientifically structured domain of measurable cross-representation correspondences, focusing on omnimodal notation processing centered on sheet music. It introduces a test-only benchmark drawing from diverse musical sources—including staff, Jianpu, and tablature—across varied genres, instruments, and structural conditions, with aligned multimodal derivatives. The framework supports four complementary tasks—score understanding, notation conversion, audio transcription, and symbolic generation—while constructing a provenance-bearing proposition hypergraph from external music-theory materials for evidence retrieval and deterministic validity checks.

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