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Encoding Musical Style with Transformer Autoencoders
Kristy Choi · Curtis Hawthorne · Ian Simon · Monica Dinculescu · Jesse Engel

Wed Jul 15 11:00 AM -- 11:45 AM & Wed Jul 15 10:00 PM -- 10:45 PM (PDT) @
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We consider the problem of learning high-level controls over the global structure of generated sequences, particularly in the context of symbolic music generation with complex language models. In this work, we present the Transformer autoencoder, which aggregates encodings of the input data across time to obtain a global representation of style from a given performance. We show it is possible to combine this global representation with other temporally distributed embeddings, enabling improved control over the separate aspects of performance style and melody. Empirically, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on various music generation tasks on the MAESTRO dataset and a YouTube dataset with 10,000+ hours of piano performances, where we achieve improvements in terms of log-likelihood and mean listening scores as compared to baselines.

Keywords: Deep Sequence Models · Other · Sequential, Network, and Time-Series Modeling

Author Information

Kristy Choi (Stanford University)
Curtis Hawthorne (Google Research)
Ian Simon (Google Brain)
Monica Dinculescu (Google Brain)
Jesse Engel (Google Brain)

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