Transcoda: End-to-End Zero-Shot Optical Music Recognition via Data-Centric Synthetic Training

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10835v1
• Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 16:50:28 GMT
• Title: Transcoda: End-to-End Zero-Shot Optical Music Recognition via Data-Centric Synthetic Training
• Abstract summary: We propose Transcoda, an OMR system built on (i) an advanced synthetic data generation pipeline, (ii) a normalization of the **kern encoding to enforce a unique normal form and (iii) grammar-based decoding to ensure the syntactic correctness of the output.<n>Transcoda achieves the best score among state of the art baselines on a newly curated benchmark of synthetically rendered scores at 18.46% OMR-NED (compared to 43.91% for the next-best system, Legato) and reduces the error rate on historical Polish scans to 63.97% OMR-NED (down from
• Score: 13.569431145803792
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Optical Music Recognition (OMR), the task of transcribing sheet music into a structured textual representation, is currently bottlenecked by a lack of large-scale, annotated datasets of real scans. This forces models to rely on either few-shot transfer or synthetic training pipelines that remain overly simplistic. A secondary challenge is encoding non-uniqueness: in the popular Humdrum **kern format for transcribing music, multiple different text encodings can render into the same visual sheet music. This one-to-many mapping creates a harder learning task and introduces high uncertainty during decoding. We propose Transcoda, an OMR system built on (i) an advanced synthetic data generation pipeline, (ii) a normalization of the **kern encoding to enforce a unique normal form and (iii) grammar-based decoding to ensure the syntactic correctness of the output. This approach allows us to train a compact 59M-parameter model in just 6 hours on a single GPU that outperforms billion-parameter baselines. Transcoda achieves the best score among state of the art baselines on a newly curated benchmark of synthetically rendered scores at 18.46% OMR-NED (compared to 43.91% for the next-best system, Legato) and reduces the error rate on historical Polish scans to 63.97% OMR-NED (down from 80.16% for SMT++).

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