The power of deep without going deep? A study of HDPGMM music representation learning

In the previous decade, Deep Learning (DL) has proven to be one of the most effective machine learning methods to tackle a wide range of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) tasks. It offers highly expressive learning capacity that can fit any music representation needed for MIR-relevant downstream tasks. However, it has been criticized for...

Are Nearby Neighbors Relatives?: Testing Deep Music Embeddings

Deep neural networks have frequently been used to directly learn representations useful for a given task from raw input data. In terms of overall performance metrics, machine learning solutions employing deep representations frequently have been reported to greatly outperform those using hand-crafted feature representations. At the same time,...

One deep music representation to rule them all? A comparative analysis of different representation learning strategies

Inspired by the success of deploying deep learning in the fields of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing, this learning paradigm has also found its way into the field of Music Information Retrieval. In order to benefit from deep learning in an effective, but also efficient manner, deep transfer learning has become a common approach...

Beyond Explicit Reports: Comparing Data-Driven Approaches to Studying Underlying Dimensions of Music Preference

Prior research from the field of music psychology has suggested that there are factors common to music preference beyond individual genres. Specifically, research has shown that self-reported ratings of preference for individual musical genres can be reduced to 4 or 5 dimensions, which in turn have been shown to correlate to relevant...

Transfer Learning of Artist Group Factors to Musical Genre Classification

The automated recognition of music genres from audio information is a challenging problem, as genre labels are subjective and noisy. Artist labels are less subjective and less noisy, while certain artists may relate more strongly to certain genres. At the same time, at prediction time, it is not guaranteed that artist labels are available for a...

Towards Seed-Free Music Playlist Generation: Enhancing collaborative Filtering with Playlist Title Information

In this paper, we propose a hybrid Neural Collaborative Filtering (NCF) model trained with a multi-objective function to achieve a music playlist generation system. The proposed approach focuses particularly on the cold-start problem (playlists with no seed tracks) and uses a text encoder employing a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) to exploit...