3 papers
cs.SD2025
SMART: Tuning a symbolic music generation system with an audio domain aesthetic reward
Nicolas Jonason, Luca Casini, Bob L. T. Sturm
Recent work has proposed training machine learning models to predict aesthetic ratings for music audio. Our work explores whether such models can be used to finetune a symbolic mus…
cs.SD2024
Steer-by-prior Editing of Symbolic Music Loops
Nicolas Jonason, Luca Casini, Bob L. T. Sturm
With the goal of building a system capable of controllable symbolic music loop generation and editing, this paper explores a generalisation of Masked Language Modelling we call Sup…
cs.SD2024
SYMPLEX: Controllable Symbolic Music Generation using Simplex Diffusion with Vocabulary Priors
Nicolas Jonason, Luca Casini, Bob L. T. Sturm
We present a new approach for fast and controllable generation of symbolic music based on the simplex diffusion, which is essentially a diffusion process operating on probabilities…