Fan Bu

MeloBottleneck: Self-Supervised Melody Skeleton Extraction with a Latent Subsequence Bottleneck

Fan Bu, Rongfeng Li, Linfeng Fan

Melody skeleton extraction aims to derive a shorter melody that preserves structural notes while removing ornaments. Prior methods rely on hand-crafted reduction rules or note-wise salience classifiers trained with heuristically or procedurally generated pseudo-labels. Such super…Read more