activity
20202025
most citedThe Jazz Transformer on the Front Line: Exploring the Shortcomings of AI-composed Music through Quantitative Measures

38 citations · 75 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators
Showing cs.SDShow all

10 papers · 1 filter

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

MuseControlLite: Multifunctional Music Generation with Lightweight Conditioners

Fang-Duo Tsai, Shih-Lun Wu, Weijaw Lee +4

We propose MuseControlLite, a lightweight mechanism designed to fine-tune text-to-music generation models for precise conditioning using various time-varying musical attributes and…

cs.SD2025

Hookpad Aria: A Copilot for Songwriters

Chris Donahue, Shih-Lun Wu, Yewon Kim +3

We present Hookpad Aria, a generative AI system designed to assist musicians in writing Western pop songs. Our system is seamlessly integrated into Hookpad, a web-based editor desi…

cs.SD2024★ 8 cited

Foundation Models for Music: A Survey

Yinghao Ma, Anders Øland, Anton Ragni +39

In recent years, foundation models (FMs) such as large language models (LLMs) and latent diffusion models (LDMs) have profoundly impacted diverse sectors, including music. This com…

cs.SD2024

Audio Prompt Adapter: Unleashing Music Editing Abilities for Text-to-Music with Lightweight Finetuning

Fang-Duo Tsai, Shih-Lun Wu, Haven Kim +3

Text-to-music models allow users to generate nearly realistic musical audio with textual commands. However, editing music audios remains challenging due to the conflicting desidera…

cs.SD2023★ 1 cited

Music ControlNet: Multiple Time-varying Controls for Music Generation

Shih-Lun Wu, Chris Donahue, Shinji Watanabe +1

Text-to-music generation models are now capable of generating high-quality music audio in broad styles. However, text control is primarily suitable for the manipulation of global m…

cs.SD2023

Improving Audio Captioning Models with Fine-grained Audio Features, Text Embedding Supervision, and LLM Mix-up Augmentation

Shih-Lun Wu, Xuankai Chang, Gordon Wichern +4

Automated audio captioning (AAC) aims to generate informative descriptions for various sounds from nature and/or human activities. In recent years, AAC has quickly attracted resear…

cs.SD2022

Compose & Embellish: Well-Structured Piano Performance Generation via A Two-Stage Approach

Shih-Lun Wu, Yi-Hsuan Yang

Even with strong sequence models like Transformers, generating expressive piano performances with long-range musical structures remains challenging. Meanwhile, methods to compose w…

cs.SD2021★ 3 cited

Theme Transformer: Symbolic Music Generation with Theme-Conditioned Transformer

Yi-Jen Shih, Shih-Lun Wu, Frank Zalkow +2

Attention-based Transformer models have been increasingly employed for automatic music generation. To condition the generation process of such a model with a user-specified sequenc…

cs.SD2021★ 4 cited

MuseMorphose: Full-Song and Fine-Grained Piano Music Style Transfer with One Transformer VAE

Shih-Lun Wu, Yi-Hsuan Yang

Transformers and variational autoencoders (VAE) have been extensively employed for symbolic (e.g., MIDI) domain music generation. While the former boast an impressive capability in…

cs.SD2020★ 38 cited

The Jazz Transformer on the Front Line: Exploring the Shortcomings of AI-composed Music through Quantitative Measures

Shih-Lun Wu, Yi-Hsuan Yang

This paper presents the Jazz Transformer, a generative model that utilizes a neural sequence model called the Transformer-XL for modeling lead sheets of Jazz music. Moreover, the m…