Machine Listening Lab at ISMIR 2024

On 10-14 November 2024, several Machine Listening Lab researchers will participate at the 25th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2024). 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 San Francisco (CA, USA) and online.

Similar with previous years, the Machine Listening Lab will have a strong presence at ISMIR 2024.

In the Scientific Programme, the following papers are authored/co-authored by MLLab members:

• Augment, Drop & Swap: Improving Diversity in LLM Captions for Efficient Music-Text Representation Learning (Ilaria Manco, Justin Salamon, Oriol Nieto)
• Can LLMs “Reason” in Music? An Evaluation of LLMs’ Capability of Music Understanding and Generation (Ziya Zhou, Yuhang Wu, Zhiyue Wu, Xinyue Zhang, Ruibin Yuan, Yinghao Ma, Lu Wang, Emmanouil Benetos, Wei Xue, Yike Guo)
• ComposerX: Multi-Agent Music Generation with LLMs (Qixin Deng, Qikai Yang, Ruibin Yuan, Yipeng Huang, Yi Wang, Xubo Liu, Zeyue Tian, Jiahao Pan, Ge Zhang, Hanfeng Lin, Yizhi Li, Yinghao Ma, Jie Fu, Chenghua Lin, Emmanouil Benetos, Wenwu Wang, Guangyu Xia, Wei Xue, Yike Guo)
• From Audio Encoders to Piano Judges: Benchmarking Performance Understanding for Solo Piano (Huan Zhang, Jinhua Liang, Simon Dixon)
• GAPS: A Large and Diverse Classical Guitar Dataset and Benchmark Transcription Model (Xavier Riley, Zixun Guo, Drew Edwards, Simon Dixon)
• MIDI-to-Tab: Guitar Tablature Inference via Masked Language Modeling (Drew Edwards, Xavier Riley, Pedro Sarmento, Simon Dixon)
• MuChoMusic: Evaluating Music Understanding in Multimodal Audio-Language Models (Benno Weck, Ilaria Manco, Emmanouil Benetos, Elio Quinton, George Fazekas, Dmitry Bogdanov)
  Best Paper Nomination
• ST-ITO: Controlling audio effects for style transfer with inference-time optimization (Christian J. Steinmetz, Shubhr Singh, Marco Comunità, Ilias Ibnyahya, Shanxin Yuan, Emmanouil Benetos, Joshua D. Reiss)
  Best Paper Nomination

The following Tutorial will be presented by MLLab PhD student Ilaria Manco:

• Connecting Music Audio and Natural Language (Seung Heon Doh, Ilaria Manco, Zachary Novack, Jong Wook Kim and Ke Chen)

The following journal paper published at TISMIR will be presented at the conference:

• PiJAMA: Piano Jazz with Automatic MIDI Annotations (Drew Edwards, Simon Dixon, Emmanouil Benetos)

Finally, MLLab PhD student Ilaria Manco is Organising Committee member for the NLP4MUSA 2024 workshop.

See you at ISMIR!