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most citedAn Argument-based Creative Assistant for Harmonic Blending

7 citations · 11 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.SD2026

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…

cs.SD2026

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…

cs.SD2026

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…

cs.SD2026

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…

cs.SD2026

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…

cs.SD2025

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…

cs.SD2025

A Machine Learning Approach for MIDI to Guitar Tablature Conversion

Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, Gregoris Bastas, Dimos Makris +3

Guitar tablature transcription consists in deducing the string and the fret number on which each note should be played to reproduce the actual musical part. This assignment should…

cs.SD2022★ 1 cited

A Dataset for Greek Traditional and Folk Music: Lyra

Charilaos Papaioannou, Ioannis Valiantzas, Theodoros Giannakopoulos +2

Studying under-represented music traditions under the MIR scope is crucial, not only for developing novel analysis tools, but also for unveiling musical functions that might prove…

cs.SD2022

Conditional Drums Generation using Compound Word Representations

Dimos Makris, Guo Zixun, Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas +1

The field of automatic music composition has seen great progress in recent years, specifically with the invention of transformer-based architectures. When using any deep learning m…

cs.SD2018★ 3 cited

DeepDrum: An Adaptive Conditional Neural Network

Dimos Makris, Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, Katia Lida Kermanidis

Considering music as a sequence of events with multiple complex dependencies, the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) architecture has proven very efficient in learning and reproducing m…

cs.SD2016★ 7 cited

An Argument-based Creative Assistant for Harmonic Blending

Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, Roberto Confalonieri, Joseph Corneli +2

Conceptual blending is a powerful tool for computational creativity where, for example, the properties of two harmonic spaces may be combined in a consistent manner to produce a no…