Exploring GPT's Ability as a Judge in Music Understanding

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Autori principali: Fang, Kun, Wang, Ziyu, Xia, Gus, Fujinaga, Ichiro
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author Fang, Kun
Wang, Ziyu
Xia, Gus
Fujinaga, Ichiro
author_facet Fang, Kun
Wang, Ziyu
Xia, Gus
Fujinaga, Ichiro
contents Recent progress in text-based Large Language Models (LLMs) and their extended ability to process multi-modal sensory data have led us to explore their applicability in addressing music information retrieval (MIR) challenges. In this paper, we use a systematic prompt engineering approach for LLMs to solve MIR problems. We convert the music data to symbolic inputs and evaluate LLMs' ability in detecting annotation errors in three key MIR tasks: beat tracking, chord extraction, and key estimation. A concept augmentation method is proposed to evaluate LLMs' music reasoning consistency with the provided music concepts in the prompts. Our experiments tested the MIR capabilities of Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT). Results show that GPT has an error detection accuracy of 65.20%, 64.80%, and 59.72% in beat tracking, chord extraction, and key estimation tasks, respectively, all exceeding the random baseline. Moreover, we observe a positive correlation between GPT's error finding accuracy and the amount of concept information provided. The current findings based on symbolic music input provide a solid ground for future LLM-based MIR research.
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spellingShingle Exploring GPT's Ability as a Judge in Music Understanding
Fang, Kun
Wang, Ziyu
Xia, Gus
Fujinaga, Ichiro
Information Retrieval
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
Recent progress in text-based Large Language Models (LLMs) and their extended ability to process multi-modal sensory data have led us to explore their applicability in addressing music information retrieval (MIR) challenges. In this paper, we use a systematic prompt engineering approach for LLMs to solve MIR problems. We convert the music data to symbolic inputs and evaluate LLMs' ability in detecting annotation errors in three key MIR tasks: beat tracking, chord extraction, and key estimation. A concept augmentation method is proposed to evaluate LLMs' music reasoning consistency with the provided music concepts in the prompts. Our experiments tested the MIR capabilities of Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT). Results show that GPT has an error detection accuracy of 65.20%, 64.80%, and 59.72% in beat tracking, chord extraction, and key estimation tasks, respectively, all exceeding the random baseline. Moreover, we observe a positive correlation between GPT's error finding accuracy and the amount of concept information provided. The current findings based on symbolic music input provide a solid ground for future LLM-based MIR research.
title Exploring GPT's Ability as a Judge in Music Understanding
topic Information Retrieval
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13261