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by kastnerkyle 3280 days ago
A bigger dataset of MIDI with velocity information and performance timing would be really, really great.

High temperature versus low is tough to compare - I find that sometimes low temperature seems better, then I change the random seed and my opinion flips.

Same for stochastic versus deterministic beam search, length/diversity scoring, and so on. I have been meaning to blog on this, will send it your way when I get it posted.

For character text, stochastic seems nicer broadly (maybe due to limited size of markov space, see [0] deterministic vs. [1] stochastic) but for music it depends on the representation I use. However at least in this cherrypicked example, I find the repetition of the deterministic beamsearch hilarious even though it is "worse".

Interesting, I will have to ask him what it was. With that render, at least my bad samples will sound prettier.

Great job on the model again!

[0] https://badsamples.tumblr.com/post/160767248407/a-markov-arg...

[1] https://badsamples.tumblr.com/post/160777871547/stochastic-s...