22 papers
Learning Music Style for Piano Arrangement Through Cross-Modal Bootstrapping
Jingwei Zhao, Gus Xia, Ziyu Wang +1
What is music style? Though often described using text labels such as "swing," "classical," or "emotional," the real style remains implicit and hidden in concrete music examples. I…
Calliphony: A Calligraphy-Driven Interface for Real-Time Generative Music Performance
Tristan Wu, Ruiji Yu, Gus Xia
While music generative models have recently gained significant attention, how they can be effectively integrated into live music performances still requires further exploration. Th…
DDSynth-RL: Audio Synthesizer Inversion via Discrete Diffusion with Reinforcement Learning
Tristan Wu, Daniel Chin, Junan Zhang +3
Synthesizer inversion is challenging for two main reasons: 1) Distinct parameter configurations can produce perceptually similar sounds. 2) Parameter-space losses often fail to ref…
Turning music identification into a neural forward pass
Muhammad Taimoor Haseeb, Ahmad Hammoudeh, Gus Xia
Search, a foundational operation in computer science, maps a query to a matching item in a collection. It is typically implemented as a System-2 like, rule-based pipeline in which…
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.…
ViTex: Visual Texture Control for Multi-Track Symbolic Music Generation via Discrete Diffusion Models
Xiaoyu Yi, Qi He, Gus Xia +1
In automatic music generation, a central challenge is to design controls that enable meaningful human-machine interaction. Existing systems often rely on extrinsic inputs such as t…