GraphMuse: A Library for Symbolic Music Graph Processing

Abstract

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently gained traction in symbolic music tasks, yet a lack of a unified framework impedes progress. Addressing this gap, we present GraphMuse, a graph processing framework and library that facilitates efficient music graph processing and GNN training for symbolic music tasks. Central to our contribution is a new neighbor sampling technique specifically targeted toward meaningful behavior in musical scores. Additionally, GraphMuse integrates hierarchical modeling elements that augment the expressivity and capabilities of graph networks for musical tasks. Experiments with two specific musical prediction tasks – pitch spelling and cadence detection – demonstrate significant performance improvement over previous methods. Our hope is that GraphMuse will lead to a boost in, and standardization of, symbolic music processing based on graph representations.

Publication
In Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval 2024 (ISMIR), San-Francisco, USA
Emmanouil Karystinaios
Emmanouil Karystinaios
Postdoctoral Researcher in Artificial Intelligence

My research interests include Music Information Retrieval and Graph Neural Networks