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MERT: Acoustic Music Understanding Model with Large-Scale Self-supervised Training — arXiv

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Key
li2023-mert
Authors
Li, Yizhi; Yuan, Ruibin; Zhang, Ge; Ma, Yinghao; Chen, Xingran; Yin, Hanzhi; Xiao, Chenghao; Lin, Chenghua; Ragni, Anton; Benetos, Emmanouil; Gyenge, Norbert; Dannenberg, Roger; Liu, Ruibo; Chen, Wenhu; Xia, Gus; Shi, Yemin; Huang, Wenhao; Wang, Zili; Guo, Yike; Fu, Jie
Issued
2023-5-31
Type
article
Container
arXiv
Raw CSL JSON
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  "URL": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00107",
  "type": "article",
  "title": "MERT: Acoustic Music Understanding Model with Large-Scale Self-supervised Training",
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      "given": "Yinghao",
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      "given": "Hanzhi",
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      "given": "Chenghao",
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      "given": "Chenghua",
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      "given": "Anton",
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      "given": "Roger",
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      "given": "Ruibo",
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    {
      "given": "Wenhu",
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      "given": "Gus",
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    {
      "given": "Yemin",
      "family": "Shi"
    },
    {
      "given": "Wenhao",
      "family": "Huang"
    },
    {
      "given": "Zili",
      "family": "Wang"
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    {
      "given": "Yike",
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Claims

  1. MERT uses masked-language-modelling-style acoustic pretraining with pseudo-labels from an RVQ-VAE acoustic teacher and a CQT-based musical teacher, and was evaluated on 14 music understanding tasks.
    "This combination includes an acoustic teacher based on Residual Vector Quantisation - Variational AutoEncoder (RVQ-VAE) and a musical teacher based on the Constant-Q Transform (CQT). [...] Experimental results indicate that our model can generalise and perform well on 14 music understanding tasks and attain state-of-the-art (SOTA) overall scores."
    Locator: section: Abstract · Quote language: en
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