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Piano Transcription by Hierarchical Language Modeling with Roll-Based Encoders (arxiv.org)
1 point by PaulHoule on Jan 17, 2025 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: It pairs a piano-roll encoder with a note predictor that writes start and pitch first, then loudness, then end, shortening the sequence. On two encoders it beat the usual piano-roll output by 0.01 and 0.022 in a note-matching score covering start, end, and loudness.

Abstract · Piano Transcription by Hierarchical Language Modeling with Pretrained Roll-based Encoders

Automatic Music Transcription (AMT), aiming to get musical notes from raw audio, typically uses frame-level systems with piano-roll outputs or language model (LM)-based systems with note-level predictions. However, frame-level systems require manual thresholding, while the LM-based systems struggle with long sequences. In this paper, we propose a hybrid method combining pre-trained roll-based encoders with an LM decoder to leverage the strengths of both methods. Besides, our approach employs a hierarchical prediction strategy, first predicting onset and pitch, then velocity, and finally offset. The hierarchical prediction strategy reduces computational costs by breaking down long sequences into different hierarchies. Evaluated on two benchmark roll-based encoders, our method outperforms traditional piano-roll outputs 0.01 and 0.022 in onset-offset-velocity F1 score, demonstrating its potential as a performance-enhancing plug-in for arbitrary roll-based music transcription encoder.

Dichucheng Li, Yongyi Zang, Qiuqiang Kong
arXiv:2501.03038 · cs.SD, cs.AI, cs.LG, eess.AS · submitted Jan 6, 2025 · updated Jan 7, 2025
abstract · pdf · html · Accepted by ICASSP 2025

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