Neural networks for music: a journey through its history

Post written in collaboration with and sponsorship of Exxact (@Exxactcorp).

Many things have happened between the pioneering papers written by Lewis and Todd in the 80s and the current wave of GANs composers. Along that journey, connectionists’ work was forgotten during the AI winter, very influential names (like Schmidhuber or Ng) contributed seminal publications and, in the meantime, researchers have made tons of awesome progress.

I won’t be going through every single paper in the field of neural networks for music nor diving into technicalities, but I’ll cover what are the milestones that helped shaping the current state of music AI – this being a nice excuse to give credit to these wild researchers who decided to care about a signal that is nothing else but cool. Let’s start!

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