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  1. From Isolated Feature to Orbits: Discovering Music Concepts via Multi-SAE Alignment

    Oct 1, 2026Liwei Lin, Gus XiaSymbolic Music GenerationSheet Music

    Computer Science Department, NYU Shanghai · Machine Learning Department, MBZUAI

  2. Do Music Generative Models Understand Musical Qualities? Automatic Music Evaluation with Model-Intrinsic Signals

    Sep 29, 2026Xiaosha Li, Chun Liu, Ziyu WangSymbolic Music GenerationRater

    Georgia Institute of Technology · ByteDance Inc. · New York University · MBZUAI

  3. Emergent Tonal Structure in Learned Chord Embeddings and Its Relation to Tonal Tension

    Sep 29, 2026Maral Ebrahimzadeh, Gilberto Bernardes, Sebastian StoberSheet MusicSymbolic Music Generation

    Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Magdeburg, Germany · INESC TEC, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal

  4. Building a Dataset for Music Sample Identification

    Sep 14, 2026R. Oguz Araz, Xavier Lizarraga, Xavier Serra +1Music Structure AnalysisSymbolic Music Generation

    Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

  5. Automatic Lyric Transcription for Greek Songs: Scaling and Task Composition Effects in Whisper Adaptation

    Sep 11, 2026Maria Frangiadaki, Dimitrios Damianos, Kosmas Kritsis +1Whisper-Large-V3Greek

    Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athena R.C., Greece

  6. A General Approach to Enharmonicism

    Sep 11, 2026Caleb Scott AlonsHarmonizationSymbolic Music Generation

    Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri - Columbia

  7. Artificial Rosetta Stone: Constrained Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) Reconstruction of Symbolic Raga Sequences via Order-k Markov Models

    Sep 1, 2026Saanvi Raghavendran, Abhishek BhattacharjeeSymbolic Music GenerationMarkov

    Abstract Math Institute

  8. Recovering Expert Critic-Sourced Network Adjacency between Musical Artists from Acoustic Distributions: A Construct-Validity Approach

    Aug 27, 2026Elena Badillo-Goicoechea, Fengfeng HeCollaborative FilteringSymbolic Music Generation

    University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois, USA

  9. Learning visual representations for compositional analysis of artworks and photographs

    Aug 6, 2026Fatemeh Behrad, Tinne Tuytelaars, Johan WagemansVisual RepresentationsArt

    KU Leuven University Belgium

  10. Diff-Symbo: Text-Controlled Long-Duration Symbolic Music Generation Using Autoregressive Latent Diffusion Model

    Aug 5, 2026Zhiwei Lin, Jun Chen, Boshi Tang +5Text-To-MusicSymbolic Music Generation

    Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  11. Helping Music Co-Creation Agents 'Listen' Well: Hierarchical Self-Supervised World Models for Understanding and Generation

    Aug 5, 2026Scott H. HawleyGenerative MusicSymbolic Music Generation

    Department of Chemistry & Physics Belmont University Nashville, TN, USA

  12. Learning Music Style for Piano Arrangement Through Cross-Modal Bootstrapping

    Aug 4, 2026Jingwei Zhao, Gus Xia, Ziyu Wang +1Symbolic Music GenerationInstrument

    1Songscription · School of Computing, National University of Singapore · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) +1

  13. UOT-IR: Structured Routing of High-Polyphony Symbolic Music into Fixed-Budget Representations

    Aug 1, 2026Ziyue Kang, Nan Nan, Chenhao Lin +1Symbolic Music GenerationToken Budget Allocation

    Frontier Institute of Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China · Interdisciplinary Research Center of Frontier Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China · MOE KLINNS Lab, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China +1

  14. GraphIDyOM: A graph-native Python reimplementation of IDyOM for musical expectation modelling

    Jul 28, 2026Lluc Bono RossellóMusic Structure AnalysisSymbolic Music Generation

    Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies on Artificial Intelligence (IRIDIA), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

  15. Modeling Stylistic Co-evolution in Symbolic Music Heritage Collections

    Jul 27, 2026Yulong He, Ivan Smirnov, Yanming LiSymbolic Music GenerationHarmonization

    St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia · ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia · St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia

  16. Infinite Canons: Maximally Self-Similar Melodic Lines and Canons with Infinite Solutions

    Jul 25, 2026Clifton CallenderSymbolic Music GenerationInfinities

    Florida State University

  17. A Diagnostic Evaluation Framework for AI-Generated Cover Songs Using Music-Theoretic and Acoustic Features

    Jul 22, 2026Yingxin LiangSymbolic Music GenerationArtificial Intelligence Evaluation

    Hangzhou Xiaoying Innovation Technology Co., Ltd. (Rythmix AI)

  18. MIDI-RAE-JEPA: Hierarchical Representation Learning and Generation for Symbolic Music

    Jul 16, 2026Scott H. HawleySymbolic Music GenerationS-Jepa

    Department of Chemistry & Physics, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, USA

  19. Contrasting statistical patterns in melodic and molecular evolution reveal distinctive constraints in a culturally evolving system

    Jul 14, 2026John M McBride, W Tecumseh FitchSymbolic Music GenerationPhylogenetic Inference

    Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  20. What is a Musical Scale? Regularity and Convention in the Organization of Pitch

    Jul 14, 2026John M McBrideSymbolic Music GenerationRegularity

    Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria · 2Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna, Austria

  21. Verifier-Guided Twelve-Tone Composition: A Generate-Verify-Repair Harness for Symbolic Music Generation

    Jul 13, 2026Congren Dai, Danni Zhao, Enyang Liu +7Symbolic Music GenerationData Generation

    Central Conservatory of Music · Tsinghua University

  22. BeatEdit: Symbolic Music Generation as Explicit Editing

    Jul 13, 2026Haoyu Gu, Lekai Qian, Haowu Zhou +2Symbolic Music GenerationAudio Editing

    School of Future Technology South China University of Technology Guangzhou, China · School of Intelligence Science and Technology Nanjing University Suzhou, China

  23. ARIMA: Reconstruction-Grounded Predictive Representation Learning for Symbolic Music

    Jul 10, 2026Mingyang Yao, Zhaoxiang FengSymbolic Music GenerationAutoregressive Model

    University of California, San Diego

  24. Event-Based Token Sequences for Audio-Conditioned Music-Game Level Modeling

    Jul 10, 2026Ke Zhang, Chu-Hsuan Hsueh, Kokolo IkedaSymbolic Music GenerationAudio Tokenizers

    Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

  25. Rag Classification of Tagore Songs using Symbolic Music Notation and Novel Weighted Distance Measures

    Jul 8, 2026Chandan Misra, Swarup ChattopadhyaySymbolic Music GenerationDistance

  26. MMGenre: Benchmarking Singing Voice Synthesis across Multiple Musical Genres

    Jul 8, 2026Wenhao Feng, Yuxun Tang, Jiatong Shi +1Singing Voice ConversionSymbolic Music Generation

  27. Designing Maintainable Hybrid Generative Systems: A Quantum-Inspired Approach to Automated Music Harmony Generation

    Jul 7, 2026Josef PavlicekGenerative MusicSymbolic Music Generation

    Czech Technical University in Prague / Faculty of Information technology / Department of Software Engineering Prague/ Czech Republic

  28. LEGATO 2: Toward Multimodal Sheet Music Recognition and Understanding

    Jul 7, 2026Guang Yang, Brian Siyuan Zheng, Victoria Ebert +1Multi-Instrument Music TranscriptionSymbolic Music Generation

    Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington · Allen Institute for AI

  29. Semantic Homogenization in Italian Popular Music: A Diachronic Analysis

    Jul 6, 2026Lorenzo Canale, Stefano Scotta, Alberto MessinaItalian TextsSymbolic Music Generation

    Centro Ricerche, Innovazione Tecnologica e Sperimentazione, RAI, Via Giovanni Carlo Cavalli 6, Turin, 10138, Italy.

  30. Decomposer: Learning to Decompile Symbolic Music to Programs

    Jul 2, 2026Yewon Kim, Apurva Gandhi, David Chung +2Symbolic Music Generation

    Carnegie Mellon University

  31. DEMUN: Fast and accurate discovery of music notation in very large collections

    Jun 30, 2026Vojtěch Dvořák, Filip Bím, Jiří Mayer +5Symbolic Music GenerationDiscovery

    Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Prague, Czechia · Moravian Library, Brno, Czechia

  32. MuSViT: A Foundation Vision Model for Sheet Music Representation

    Jun 30, 2026Carlos Penarrubia, Antonio Rios-Vila, Eliseo Fuentes-Martinez +4Symbolic Music GenerationRecent Vision Foundation Models

    Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Group, University of Alicante, Spain

  33. A Flexible Encoding Model for Non-Unique Note Alignments

    Jun 26, 2026Suhit Chiruthapudi, Adam Štefunko, Silvan Peter +3Symbolic Music GenerationSpeech-To-Text Alignment

    Institute of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University, Austria · Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Czech Republic

  34. Libretto: Giving LLM Agents a Sense of Musical Structure

    Jun 21, 2026Yichen XuGenerative MusicSymbolic Music Generation

    University of California, Berkeley

  35. Pitch Spelling Jazz Lead Sheets, Solo Transcriptions, Classical Piano and Monophonic Scores

    Jun 18, 2026Augustin Bouquillard, Florent JacquemardSheet MusicSymbolic Music Generation

    X · 1 École polytechnique, Palaiseau, France · CEDRIC - VERTIGO +1

  36. Closing the Loop: PID Feedback Control for Interpretable Activation Steering in Symbolic Music Generation

    Jun 17, 2026Ioannis Prokopiou, Pantelis Vikatos, Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas +2Linear Activation SteeringSymbolic Music Generation

    Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece · Orfium Research, Athens, Greece · Hellenic Mediterranean University, Chania, Greece +2

  37. Generative Modeling of Bach-Style Symbolic Music: A Comparative Study of Autoregressive, Latent-Variable, and Adversarial Approaches

    Jun 11, 2026Dezhi Yu, Kyuil Lee, Yongkang HuangSymbolic Music GenerationGenerative Models

  38. Quality-Diversity Search in Sound Generation: Investigating Innovation Engines for Audio Exploration

    Jun 8, 2026Björn Þór Jónsson, Çağrı Erdem, Stefano Fasciani +1Symbolic Music GenerationInnovation

    1*Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway. · Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, Norway.

  39. Can LLMs understand LilyPond? A benchmark for symbolic music generation and understanding

    Jun 7, 2026Matteo Spanio, Mohammad Torabi, Andrea Poltronieri +1Symbolic Music GenerationMulti-Instrument Music Transcription

    Centro di Sonologia Computazionale, University of Padova, Padova, Italy · Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

  40. A Lightweight Slot-Attention Framework for Multi-Instrument Multi-Pitch Estimation

    May 31, 2026Michael TaenzerMusic Structure AnalysisSymbolic Music Generation

    Electronic Media Technology Group Ilmenau University of Technology Ilmenau, Germany

  41. Latent Space Disentanglement via Activation Steering for Interpretable Attribute Control in Symbolic Music Generation

    May 29, 2026Ioannis Prokopiou, Pantelis Vikatos, Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas +2Symbolic Music GenerationAcoustic Latent Space

    Athens University of Economics and Business Orfium Athens, Greece · Innovation Lab Orfium Athens, Greece · Department of Music Technology and Acoustics Hellenic Mediterranean University Rethymno, Greece +2

  42. AnchorSteer: Self-Discovered Concept Injection for Structure-Preserving Music Editing

    May 29, 2026Chih-Heng Chang, Keng-Seng Ho, Chih-Yu Tsai +3Audio EditingSymbolic Music Generation

    National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan

  43. Real-time, EDM-inspired sonification of the activity of a supercomputer

    May 21, 2026Marco Alunno, Paolo BientinesiSymbolic Music GenerationHear

    Universidad EAFIT · Carrera 49 #7sur-50 · Medelln, Colombia +3

  44. A Dataset for the Recognition of Historical and Handwritten Music Scores in Western Notation

    May 18, 2026Pau Torras, Jiří Mayer, Carles Badal +7Multi-Instrument Music TranscriptionSymbolic Music Generation

    Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, Spain · Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Prague, Czechia · Department of Arts and Musicology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona +2

  45. Sonalyzer-Moz: A Framework for Analyzing the Structure of Mozart's Sonata Form

    May 18, 2026Jing Zhao, KokSheik Wong, Vishnu Monn Baskaran +2Music Structure AnalysisSymbolic Music Generation

    School of Information Technology, Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia · Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, La Trobe University, Australia · Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia

  46. vega-mir: An information-theoretic Python toolkit for symbolic music, with applications to harmonic graphs and rubato spectra

    May 15, 2026Fred Jalbert-DesforgesSymbolic Music GenerationStylometric

    Independent Researcher, Cygnus Analysis ⋅Montréal, Québec

  47. Communicating Sound Through Natural Language

    May 9, 2026Emanuele Rossi, Emanuele RodolàAcoustic Latent SpaceNatural Language

    Sapienza University of Rome · Sapienza University of Rome / Paradigma

  48. Library learning with e-graphs on jazz harmony

    May 6, 2026Zeng Ren, Maddy Bowers, Xinyi Guan +1Sheet MusicHarmonization

    EPFL Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland · MIT Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

  49. Cosmodoit: A Python Package for Adaptive, Efficient Pipelining of Feature Extraction from Performed Music

    May 5, 2026Corentin Guichaoua, Daniel Bedoya, Elaine ChewMusic Structure AnalysisSymbolic Music Generation

    1STMS Laboratoire (UMR9912) – CNRS, IRCAM, Sorbonne Universit´e, Minist`ere de la Culture, Paris 75004, France · Department of Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, United Kingdom

  50. RenCon 2025: Revival of the Expressive Performance Rendering Competition

    May 3, 2026Huan Zhang, Taegyun Kwon, Anders Friberg +7InstrumentCompetition

    Queen Mary University of London London, UK · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Daejeon, Korea · KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden +5

  51. Opening the Design Space: Two Years of Performance with Intelligent Musical Instruments

    Apr 26, 2026Charles Patrick MartinGenerative MusicInstrument

    The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, Australia

  52. Come Together: Analyzing Popular Songs Through Statistical Embeddings

    Apr 24, 2026Matthew Esmaili Mallory, Mark Glickman, Jason BrownBehavioral EmbeddingsSymbolic Music Generation

    Harvard University Department of Statistics Cambridge, MA, USA · Department of Mathematics and Statistics Dalhousie University Halifax, NS, Canada

  53. BEAT: Tokenizing and Generating Symbolic Music by Uniform Temporal Steps

    Apr 21, 2026Lekai Qian, Haoyu Gu, Jingwei Zhao +1Symbolic Music GenerationAudio Tokenizers

    South China University of Technology · National University of Singapore · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence +1

  54. HAFM: Hierarchical Autoregressive Foundation Model for Music Accompaniment Generation

    Apr 10, 2026Jian Zhu, Jianwei Cui, Yunlong Xue +4AccompanimentModern Generative Audio Models

    Zhejiang Lab · University of Science and Technology of China · Zhejiang International Studies University

  55. TADA! Tuning Audio Diffusion Models through Activation Steering

    Feb 12, 2026Łukasz Staniszewski, Katarzyna Zaleska, Mateusz Modrzejewski +1Audio EditingLinear Activation Steering

    Warsaw University of Technology · IDEAS Research Institute

  56. Scalable Music Cover Retrieval Using Lyrics-Aligned Audio Embeddings

    Jan 16, 2026Joanne Affolter, Benjamin Martin, Elena V. Epure +2Symbolic Music GenerationTranscription

    Deezer Research - 24 Rue de Calais, 75009 Paris · EPFL DHLAB - Rte Cantonale, 1015 Lausanne

  57. Methods for pitch analysis in contemporary popular music: multiple pitches from harmonic tones in Vitalic's music

    Jun 14, 2025Emmanuel Deruty, David Meredith, Maarten Grachten +5HarmonizationSymbolic Music Generation

    Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Paris, France · Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark · Citizen Records, Dijon, France

  58. Evolutionary modelling reveals melodic and harmonic constraints on global scale structure

    Aug 22, 2024John M McBride, Steven Brown, Elizabeth Phillips +2Symbolic Music GenerationHarmonization

    Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea · McMaster University, Canada · University of Auckland, New Zealand +1