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F-StrIPE: Fast Structure-Informed Positional Encoding for Symbolic Music Generation


Abstract:

While music remains a challenging domain for generative models like Transformers, recent progress has been made by exploiting suitable musically-informed priors. One tech...Show More

Abstract:

While music remains a challenging domain for generative models like Transformers, recent progress has been made by exploiting suitable musically-informed priors. One technique to leverage information about musical structure in Transformers is inserting such knowledge into the positional encoding (PE) module. However, Transformers carry a quadratic cost in sequence length. In this paper, we propose F-StrIPE, a structure-informed PE scheme that works in linear complexity. Using existing kernel approximation techniques based on random features, we show that F-StrIPE is a generalization of Stochastic Positional Encoding (SPE). We illustrate the empirical merits of F-StrIPE using melody harmonization for symbolic music.
Date of Conference: 06-11 April 2025
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 07 March 2025
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Conference Location: Hyderabad, India

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