7 papers
Latent Space Disentanglement via Activation Steering for Interpretable Attribute Control in Symbolic Music Generation
Ioannis Prokopiou, Pantelis Vikatos, Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas +2
Transformer-based architectures have significantly advanced the generation of complex symbolic sequences, yet a significant gap remains in achieving fine-grained, interpretable con…
Seconds-Aligned PCA-DAC Latent Diffusion for Symbolic-to-Audio Drum Rendering
Konstantinos Soiledis, Maximos Kaliakatsos Papakostas, Dimos Makris +1
Symbolic-control drum generation requires preserving explicit event timing and dynamics while synthesizing acoustically plausible waveforms. We present Sec2Drum-DAC, a conditional…
Drum Synthesis from Expressive Drum Grids via Neural Audio Codecs
Konstantinos Soiledis, Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, Dimos Makris +1
Generating realistic drum audio directly from symbolic representations is a challenging task at the intersection of music perception and machine learning. We propose a system that…
A Cold Diffusion Approach for Percussive Dereverberation
Dimos Makris, András Barják, Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas
Most recent advances in audio dereverberation focus almost exclusively on speech, leaving percussive and drum signals largely unexplored despite their importance in music productio…
Pay (Cross) Attention to the Melody: Curriculum Masking for Single-Encoder Melodic Harmonization
Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, Dimos Makris, Konstantinos Soiledis +3
Melodic harmonization, the task of generating harmonic accompaniments for a given melody, remains a central challenge in computational music generation. Recent single encoder trans…
Incorporating Structure and Chord Constraints in Symbolic Transformer-based Melodic Harmonization
Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, Konstantinos Soiledis, Theodoros Tsamis +3
Transformer architectures offer significant advantages regarding the generation of symbolic music; their capabilities for incorporating user preferences toward what they generate i…