Music Information Retrieval

Melody Transcription via Generative Pre-training
Despite the central role that melody plays in music perception, it remains an open challenge in music information retrieval to reliably …
Chris Donahue, John Thickstun, Percy Liang
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Codified Audio Language Modeling Learns Useful Representations for Music Information Retrieval
We demonstrate that language models pre-trained on codified (discretely-encoded) music audio learn representations that are useful for …
Rodrigo Castellon, Chris Donahue, Percy Liang
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The NES Music Database: A Multi-instrumental Dataset with Expressive Performance Attributes
Existing research on music generation focuses on composition, but often ignores the expressive performance characteristics required for …
Chris Donahue, Huanru Henry Mao, Julian McAuley
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