5 papers
RenCon 2025: Revival of the Expressive Performance Rendering Competition
Huan Zhang, Taegyun Kwon, Anders Friberg +7
This paper presents a comprehensive documentation of RenCon 2025, the revival of the expressive performance rendering competition which took place at ISMIR 2025 in Daejeon, Korea.…
A Theoretical Game of Attacks via Compositional Skills
Xinbo Wu, Huan Zhang, Abhishek Umrawal +1
As large language models grow increasingly capable, concerns about their safe deployment have intensified. While numerous alignment strategies aim to restrict harmful behavior, the…
RenderBox: Expressive Performance Rendering with Text Control
Huan Zhang, Akira Maezawa, Simon Dixon
Expressive music performance rendering involves interpreting symbolic scores with variations in timing, dynamics, articulation, and instrument-specific techniques, resulting in per…
How does the teacher rate? Observations from the NeuroPiano dataset
Huan Zhang, Vincent Cheung, Hayato Nishioka +2
This paper provides a detailed analysis of the NeuroPiano dataset, which comprise 104 audio recordings of student piano performances accompanied with 2255 textual feedback and rati…
LLaQo: Towards a Query-Based Coach in Expressive Music Performance Assessment
Huan Zhang, Vincent Cheung, Hayato Nishioka +2
Research in music understanding has extensively explored composition-level attributes such as key, genre, and instrumentation through advanced representations, leading to cross-mod…