[논문 리뷰] The Bach Doodle: Approachable music composition with machine learning at scale

Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang, Curtis Hawthorne외 5명|arXiv (Cornell University)|2019. 07. 14.

Music and Audio Processing참고 문헌 32인용 수 41

한 줄 요약

본 논문은 Bach Doodle를 제시합니다. In-browser 하모나이제이션 도구로 Coconet을 기반으로 하며, 속도 향상을 위해 TensorFlow.js로 포팅하고, 400 KB 규모의 작은 모델, 그리고 2160만 개의 사용자 생성 하모나이제이션과 5500만 건의 요청으로 구성된 대규모 공개 데이터셋을 제공합니다. 또한 평행 5도/8도(P5/P8) 분석 및 로컬 대 TPU-backed 추론 간 배치 선택에 대해 분석합니다.

ABSTRACT

To make music composition more approachable, we designed the first AI-powered Google Doodle, the Bach Doodle, where users can create their own melody and have it harmonized by a machine learning model Coconet (Huang et al., 2017) in the style of Bach. For users to input melodies, we designed a simplified sheet-music based interface. To support an interactive experience at scale, we re-implemented Coconet in TensorFlow.js (Smilkov et al., 2019) to run in the browser and reduced its runtime from 40s to 2s by adopting dilated depth-wise separable convolutions and fusing operations. We also reduced the model download size to approximately 400KB through post-training weight quantization. We calibrated a speed test based on partial model evaluation time to determine if the harmonization request should be performed locally or sent to remote TPU servers. In three days, people spent 350 years worth of time playing with the Bach Doodle, and Coconet received more than 55 million queries. Users could choose to rate their compositions and contribute them to a public dataset, which we are releasing with this paper. We hope that the community finds this dataset useful for applications ranging from ethnomusicological studies, to music education, to improving machine learning models.

연구 동기 및 목표

• 대규모 대중을 위한 접근 가능하고 확장 가능한 AI 기반 음악 하모나이제이션 경험을 시연한다.
• 머신 러닝으로 작곡하는 데 있어 진입 장벽을 낮추는 브라우저 기반 인터페이스를 설계한다.
• 웹 및 클라우드 런타임에서 규모 확장을 위한 신경 카운터포인트 모델(Coconet)의 배치 및 최적화를 수행한다.
• 민족음악학, 교육 및 ML 개선 연구를 촉진하기 위한 대규모 공개 데이터셋을 공개한다.

제안 방법

• 브라우저에서 실행되도록 Coconet을 TensorFlow.js로 재구현하고 폴백 계산을 위해 TPU 서버로 포팅한다.
• 확산된 깊이별 가분 합성(convolution)과 연산 융합을 적용해 추론 지연을 줄인다.
• 포스트 트레이닝 가중치 양자화를 통해 모델 가중치를 약 400 KB 다운로드 크기로 압축한다.
• 브라우저 기반 속도 테스트를 보정해 하모나이제이션 요청에 대해 로컬 TF.js와 원격 TPU 중 어떤 것을 사용할지 선택한다.
• 멜로디, 하모나이제이션, 평가 및 메타데이터를 포함한 사용자 상호작용 데이터세트를 수집하고 분석한다.]
• research_questions: ["How can a Bach-style harmonization model be made approachable and fast enough for large-scale browser-based interaction?", "What interface and interaction design enable users with little musical training to input melodies and receive harmonizations effectively?", "What are the trade-offs in running Coconet locally in the browser versus on TPU servers, in terms of latency and user experience?", "How does the model perform in terms of stylistic fidelity (e.g., avoidance of parallel fifths/octaves) and user-rated quality in a real-world, diverse user base?"]
• key_findings: ["Coconet ported to TF.js achieves ~2s harmonization latency in-browser with dilated depthwise separable convolutions and operation fusion.", "Model download size reduced to ~400 KB via post-training weight quantization.", "Hybrid execution strategy: ~47.4% of harmonizations run locally; remaining requests served by TPU backends.", "Over 21.8 million analyzed harmonizations show P5s and P8s occur at 0.365 and 0.391 per measure on average, correlated with input distribution and user feedback.", "Across 55 million requests, users produced 21.6 million unique sequences across 8.5 million sessions; 53.8% of harmonizations rated as Good.", "Dataset release (CC-license) enables ethnomusicology, education, and ML research applications."]
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실험 결과

연구 질문

• RQ1 How can a Bach-style harmonization model be made approachable and fast enough for large-scale browser-based interaction?
• RQ2 What interface and interaction design enable users with little musical training to input melodies and receive harmonizations effectively?
• RQ3 What are the trade-offs in running Coconet locally in the browser versus on TPU servers, in terms of latency and user experience?
• RQ4 How does the model perform in terms of stylistic fidelity (e.g., avoidance of parallel fifths/octaves) and user-rated quality in a real-world, diverse user base?

주요 결과

• Coconet ported to TF.js achieves ~2s harmonization latency in-browser with dilated depthwise separable convolutions and operation fusion.
• Model download size reduced to ~400 KB via post-training weight quantization.
• Hybrid execution strategy: ~47.4% of harmonizations run locally; remaining requests served by TPU backends.
• Over 21.8 million analyzed harmonizations show P5s and P8s occur at 0.365 and 0.391 per measure on average, correlated with input distribution and user feedback.
• Across 55 million requests, users produced 21.6 million unique sequences across 8.5 million sessions; 53.8% of harmonizations rated as Good.
• Dataset release (CC-license) enables ethnomusicology, education, and ML research applications.