An automatic music generation and evaluation method based on transfer learning

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In recent years, deep learning has seen remarkable progress in many fields, especially with many excellent pre-training models emerged in Natural Language Processing(NLP). However, these pre-training models can not be used directly in music generation tasks due to the different representations between music symbols and text. Compared with the traditional presentation method of music melody that only includes the pitch relationship between single notes, the text-like representation method proposed in this paper contains more melody information, including pitch, rhythm and pauses, which expresses the melody in a form similar to text and makes it possible to use existing pre-training models in symbolic melody generation. In this paper, based on the generative pre-training-2(GPT-2) text generation model and transfer learning we propose MT-GPT-2(music textual GPT-2) model that is used in music melody generation. Then, a symbolic music evaluation method(MEM) is proposed through the combination of mathematical statistics, music theory knowledge and signal processing methods, which is more objective than the manual evaluation method. Based on this evaluation method and music theories, the music generation model in this paper are compared with other models (such as long short-term memory (LSTM) model,Leak-GAN model and Music SketchNet). The results show that the melody generated by the proposed model is closer to real music.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

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PloS one - 18(2023), 5 vom: 25., Seite e0283103

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Guo, Yi [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yangcheng [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Ting [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Liang [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Qianxue [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 12.05.2023

Date Revised 05.06.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1371/journal.pone.0283103

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NLM356663876