CSyMR: Benchmarking Compositional Music Information Retrieval in Symbolic Music Reasoning
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| author | Wang, Boyang Vishe, Yash Xu, Xin Novack, Zachary Jiang, Xunyi McAuley, Julian Wu, Junda |
| author_facet | Wang, Boyang Vishe, Yash Xu, Xin Novack, Zachary Jiang, Xunyi McAuley, Julian Wu, Junda |
| contents | Natural language information needs over symbolic music scores rarely reduce to a single step lookup. Many queries require compositional Music Information Retrieval (MIR) that extracts multiple pieces of evidence from structured notation and aggregates them to answer the question. This setting remains challenging for Large Language Models due to the mismatch between natural language intents and symbolic representations, as well as the difficulty of reliably handling long structured contexts. Existing benchmarks only partially capture these retrieval demands, often emphasizing isolated theoretical knowledge or simplified settings. We introduce CSyMR-Bench, a benchmark for compositional MIR in symbolic music reasoning grounded in authentic user scenarios. It contains 126 multiple choice questions curated from community discussions and professional examinations, where each item requires chaining multiple atomic analyses over a score to derive implicit musical evidence. To support diagnosis, we provide a taxonomy with six query intent categories and six analytical dimension tags. We further propose a tool-augmented retrieval and reasoning framework that integrates a ReAct-style controller with deterministic symbolic analysis operators built with music21. Experiments across prompting baselines and agent variants show that tool-grounded compositional retrieval consistently outperforms Large Language Model-only approaches, yielding 5-7% absolute accuracy gains, with the largest improvements on analysis-heavy categories. |
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| spellingShingle | CSyMR: Benchmarking Compositional Music Information Retrieval in Symbolic Music Reasoning Wang, Boyang Vishe, Yash Xu, Xin Novack, Zachary Jiang, Xunyi McAuley, Julian Wu, Junda Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Sound Audio and Speech Processing Natural language information needs over symbolic music scores rarely reduce to a single step lookup. Many queries require compositional Music Information Retrieval (MIR) that extracts multiple pieces of evidence from structured notation and aggregates them to answer the question. This setting remains challenging for Large Language Models due to the mismatch between natural language intents and symbolic representations, as well as the difficulty of reliably handling long structured contexts. Existing benchmarks only partially capture these retrieval demands, often emphasizing isolated theoretical knowledge or simplified settings. We introduce CSyMR-Bench, a benchmark for compositional MIR in symbolic music reasoning grounded in authentic user scenarios. It contains 126 multiple choice questions curated from community discussions and professional examinations, where each item requires chaining multiple atomic analyses over a score to derive implicit musical evidence. To support diagnosis, we provide a taxonomy with six query intent categories and six analytical dimension tags. We further propose a tool-augmented retrieval and reasoning framework that integrates a ReAct-style controller with deterministic symbolic analysis operators built with music21. Experiments across prompting baselines and agent variants show that tool-grounded compositional retrieval consistently outperforms Large Language Model-only approaches, yielding 5-7% absolute accuracy gains, with the largest improvements on analysis-heavy categories. |
| title | CSyMR: Benchmarking Compositional Music Information Retrieval in Symbolic Music Reasoning |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Sound Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11556 |