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Main Authors: Souza, Gabriel, Figueiredo, Flavio, Machado, Alexei, Guimarães, Deborah
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10515
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author Souza, Gabriel
Figueiredo, Flavio
Machado, Alexei
Guimarães, Deborah
author_facet Souza, Gabriel
Figueiredo, Flavio
Machado, Alexei
Guimarães, Deborah
contents In recent years, deep learning has achieved formidable results in creative computing. When it comes to music, one viable model for music generation are Transformer based models. However, while transformers models are popular for music generation, they often rely on annotated structural information. In this work, we inquire if the off-the-shelf Music Transformer models perform just as well on structural similarity metrics using only unannotated MIDI information. We show that a slight tweak to the most common representation yields small but significant improvements. We also advocate that searching for better unannotated musical representations is more cost-effective than producing large amounts of curated and annotated data.
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spellingShingle Do we need more complex representations for structure? A comparison of note duration representation for Music Transformers
Souza, Gabriel
Figueiredo, Flavio
Machado, Alexei
Guimarães, Deborah
Sound
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
In recent years, deep learning has achieved formidable results in creative computing. When it comes to music, one viable model for music generation are Transformer based models. However, while transformers models are popular for music generation, they often rely on annotated structural information. In this work, we inquire if the off-the-shelf Music Transformer models perform just as well on structural similarity metrics using only unannotated MIDI information. We show that a slight tweak to the most common representation yields small but significant improvements. We also advocate that searching for better unannotated musical representations is more cost-effective than producing large amounts of curated and annotated data.
title Do we need more complex representations for structure? A comparison of note duration representation for Music Transformers
topic Sound
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10515