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At its core, MuScriptor is a decoder-only Transformer for music transcription. First, it reads a mel-spectrogram of a short audio segment. Then it autoregressively predicts MIDI-like tokens for pitch, ...

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J. Craig Venter, the scientist who raced to decode the human genome, has died at age 79. Venter rose to fame in the field for publishing the first bacterial genome ever decoded, along with a list of ...

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Abstract: This paper introduces FlowMAC, a novel neural audio codec for high-quality general audio compression at low bit rates based on conditional flow matching (CFM). FlowMAC jointly learns a mel ...