Machine Listening lab at ISMIR 2025
On 21-25 September 2025, several Machine Listening lab researchers will participate at the 26th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2025). ISMIR is the leading conference in the field of music informatics, and is currently the top-cited publication for Music & Musicology (source: Google Scholar). This year ISMIR will take place onsite in Daejeon, Korea.
Similar to previous years, the MLLab will have a strong presence at ISMIR 2025.
In the Scientific Programme, the following papers are authored/co-authored by MLLab members:
- Universal Music Representations? Evaluating Foundation Models on World Music Corpora (Charilaos Papaioannou, Emmanouil Benetos, Alexandros Potamianos)
- Perceptual Errors in Music Source Separation: Looking Beyond SDR Averages (Saurjya Sarkar, Victoria Moomjian, Basil Woods, Emmanouil Benetos, Mark Sandler)
- CMI-Bench: a Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Music Instruction Following (Yinghao Ma, Siyou Li, Juntao Yu, Emmanouil Benetos, Akira Maezawa)
- Refining Music Sample Identification with a Self Supervised Graph Neural Network (Aditya Bhattacharjee, Ivan Meresman Higgs, Mark Sandler, Emmanouil Benetos)
As part of the MIREX public evaluations:
- MLLab PhD student Yinghao Ma is task captain for the Music Reasoning QA, Audio Beat Tracking, and Audio Key Detection tasks
Finally, on the organisational side:
- MLLab PhD student Yinghao Ma is co-organising the satellite workshop LLM4MA: Large Language Models for Music & Audio
See you at Daejeon!