From Words to Music: A Study of Subword Tokenization Techniques in Symbolic Music Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08953v2
• Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 11:16:53 GMT
• Title: From Words to Music: A Study of Subword Tokenization Techniques in Symbolic Music Generation
• Authors: Adarsh Kumar and Pedro Sarmento
• Abstract summary: Subword tokenization has been widely successful in text-based natural language processing tasks with Transformer-based models. We apply subword tokenization on post-musical tokenization schemes and find that it enables the generation of longer songs at the same time. Our study suggests that subword tokenization is a promising technique for symbolic music generation and may have broader implications for music composition.
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• Abstract: Subword tokenization has been widely successful in text-based natural language processing (NLP) tasks with Transformer-based models. As Transformer models become increasingly popular in symbolic music-related studies, it is imperative to investigate the efficacy of subword tokenization in the symbolic music domain. In this paper, we explore subword tokenization techniques, such as byte-pair encoding (BPE), in symbolic music generation and its impact on the overall structure of generated songs. Our experiments are based on three types of MIDI datasets: single track-melody only, multi-track with a single instrument, and multi-track and multi-instrument. We apply subword tokenization on post-musical tokenization schemes and find that it enables the generation of longer songs at the same time and improves the overall structure of the generated music in terms of objective metrics like structure indicator (SI), Pitch Class Entropy, etc. We also compare two subword tokenization methods, BPE and Unigram, and observe that both methods lead to consistent improvements. Our study suggests that subword tokenization is a promising technique for symbolic music generation and may have broader implications for music composition, particularly in cases involving complex data such as multi-track songs.

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