2 papers
cs.SD2026
Helping Music Co-Creation Agents 'Listen' Well: Hierarchical Self-Supervised World Models for Understanding and Generation
Scott H. Hawley
Collaborative music agents need internal representations rich enough to support both understanding and generation, yet flexible enough for a workflow where the human retains agency…
cs.SD2026
MIDI-RAE-JEPA: Hierarchical Representation Learning and Generation for Symbolic Music
Scott H. Hawley
Rich internal representations of musical structure are essential for music understanding tasks such as machine-assisted music co-writing, yet self-supervised approaches for symboli…