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Autori principali: Ouyang, Zhihao, Wang, Ju-Chiang, Zhang, Daiyu, Chen, Bin, Li, Shangjie, Lin, Quan
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19514
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author Ouyang, Zhihao
Wang, Ju-Chiang
Zhang, Daiyu
Chen, Bin
Li, Shangjie
Lin, Quan
author_facet Ouyang, Zhihao
Wang, Ju-Chiang
Zhang, Daiyu
Chen, Bin
Li, Shangjie
Lin, Quan
contents Question-answering (QA) is a natural approach for humans to understand a piece of music audio. However, for machines, accessing a large-scale dataset covering diverse aspects of music is crucial, yet challenging, due to the scarcity of publicly available music data of this type. This paper introduces MQAD, a music QA dataset built on the Million Song Dataset (MSD), encompassing a rich array of musical features, including beat, chord, key, structure, instrument, and genre -- across 270,000 tracks, featuring nearly 3 million diverse questions and captions. MQAD distinguishes itself by offering detailed time-varying musical information such as chords and sections, enabling exploration into the inherent structure of music within a song. To compile MQAD, our methodology leverages specialized Music Information Retrieval (MIR) models to extract higher-level musical features and Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate natural language QA pairs. Then, we leverage a multimodal LLM that integrates the LLaMA2 and Whisper architectures, along with novel subjective metrics to assess the performance of MQAD. In experiments, our model trained on MQAD demonstrates advancements over conventional music audio captioning approaches. The dataset and code are available at https://github.com/oyzh888/MQAD.
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spellingShingle MQAD: A Large-Scale Question Answering Dataset for Training Music Large Language Models
Ouyang, Zhihao
Wang, Ju-Chiang
Zhang, Daiyu
Chen, Bin
Li, Shangjie
Lin, Quan
Sound
Question-answering (QA) is a natural approach for humans to understand a piece of music audio. However, for machines, accessing a large-scale dataset covering diverse aspects of music is crucial, yet challenging, due to the scarcity of publicly available music data of this type. This paper introduces MQAD, a music QA dataset built on the Million Song Dataset (MSD), encompassing a rich array of musical features, including beat, chord, key, structure, instrument, and genre -- across 270,000 tracks, featuring nearly 3 million diverse questions and captions. MQAD distinguishes itself by offering detailed time-varying musical information such as chords and sections, enabling exploration into the inherent structure of music within a song. To compile MQAD, our methodology leverages specialized Music Information Retrieval (MIR) models to extract higher-level musical features and Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate natural language QA pairs. Then, we leverage a multimodal LLM that integrates the LLaMA2 and Whisper architectures, along with novel subjective metrics to assess the performance of MQAD. In experiments, our model trained on MQAD demonstrates advancements over conventional music audio captioning approaches. The dataset and code are available at https://github.com/oyzh888/MQAD.
title MQAD: A Large-Scale Question Answering Dataset for Training Music Large Language Models
topic Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19514