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MARBLE: Music Audio Representation Benchmark for Universal Evaluation

Benetos, Emmanouil
Chen, Wenhu
Chen, Xingran
Dannenberg, Roger
Deng, Binyue
Fu, Jie
Guo, Yike
Gyenge, Norbert
Huang, Jiawen
Le, Zhuo
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In the era of extensive intersection between art and Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as image generation and fiction co-creation, AI for music remains relatively nascent, particularly in music understanding. This is evident in the limited work on deep music representations, the scarcity of large-scale datasets, and the absence of a universal and community-driven benchmark. To address this issue, we introduce the Music Audio Representation Benchmark for universaL Evaluation, termed MARBLE. It aims to provide a benchmark for various Music Information Retrieval (MIR) tasks by defining a comprehensive taxonomy with four hierarchy levels, including acoustic, performance, score, and high-level description. We establish a unified protocol based on 18 tasks on 12 public-available datasets, providing a fair and standard assessment of representations of all open-sourced pre-trained models developed on music recordings as baselines. MARBLE offers an easy-to-use, extendable, and reproducible suite for the community, with clear statements on dataset copyright. Results suggest that recently proposed large-scale pre-trained musical language models perform the best in most tasks, with room for further improvement. The leaderboard and toolkit repository are published to promote future music AI research.
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E. Benetos, W. Chen, X. Chen, R. Dannenberg, B. Deng, J. Fu , et al., "MARBLE: Music Audio Representation Benchmark for Universal Evaluation," 2023, pp. 39626-39647.
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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36
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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36
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Curran Associates
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