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2021
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Serious music Musical compositions Art music Musical works Classical music Western music (Western countries) Art music, Western Western art music Knowledge, Classification ofCiter ce document
Mikaela Keller et al., « What Musical Knowledge Does Self-Attention Learn? », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.c0fa93...
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Since their conception for NLP tasks in 2017, Transformer neural networks have been increasingly used with compelling results for a variety of symbolic MIR tasks including music analysis, classification and generation. Although the concept of self-attention between words in text can intuitively be transposed as a relation between musical objects such as notes or chords in a score, it remains relatively unknown what kind of musical relations precisely tend to be captured by self attention mechanisms when applied to musical data. Moreover, the principle of self-attention has been elaborated in NLP to help model the “meaning” of a sentence while in the musical domain this concept appears to be more subjective. In this explorative work, we open the music transformer black box looking to identify which aspects of music are actually learnt by the self-attention mechanism. We apply this approach to two MIR probing tasks : composer classification and cadence identification.
