miditok: A Python package for MIDI file tokenization

Recent progress in natural language processing has been adapted to the symbolic music modality. Language models, such as Transformers, have been used with symbolic music for a variety of tasks among which music generation, modeling or transcription, with state-of-the-art performances. These models a...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2023-10
Main Authors: Fradet, Nathan, Briot, Jean-Pierre, Chhel, Fabien, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Gutowski, Nicolas
Format: Article
Language:English
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Natural language processing
Popular music
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Summary:Recent progress in natural language processing has been adapted to the symbolic music modality. Language models, such as Transformers, have been used with symbolic music for a variety of tasks among which music generation, modeling or transcription, with state-of-the-art performances. These models are beginning to be used in production products. To encode and decode music for the backbone model, they need to rely on tokenizers, whose role is to serialize music into sequences of distinct elements called tokens. MidiTok is an open-source library allowing to tokenize symbolic music with great flexibility and extended features. It features the most popular music tokenizations, under a unified API. It is made to be easily used and extensible for everyone.
ISSN:2331-8422