Introduction

Music can touch the hearts of any audience without them possessing any knowledge of its context. The power of music is transcendental, and it stems from the timbre of the instrument(s), the fundamental rhythmic structure and melody, the dynamics, instrumentation, and many more, all of which cooperate in some form of harmony to create the final product. With the recent rise of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Contents (AIGC), AI for music is a promising field full of creativity, novel methodologies, and technologies that are yet to be explored. Currently, AI for music methods have been commonly concentrated on utilizing machine learning and deep learning techniques to generate new music. Despite the significant milestones that have been achieved thus far, many are not necessarily robust for a wide range of applications.

AI music itself is a timely topic. This workshop aims to generate momentum around this topic of growing interest, and to encourage interdisciplinary interaction and collaboration between AI, music, Natural Language Processing (NLP), machine learning, multimedia, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), audio processing, computational bioacoustics, computational linguistics, and neuroscience. It serves as a forum to bring together active researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share their recent advances in this promising area.

Program Schedule

Dec. 9 Tuesday, 2025 Online (GMT-8)


Virtually: Please fill out the AIMG 2025 Participant Online Form by Dec. 8 to receive the online meeting link to participate in the workshop for FREE. Please join IEEE Big Data Workshop - AIMG 2025 and add your paper ID after your name. information.

Paper Type Paper Title Author(s)

Session I: Paper Presentation & AI Music Showcase(11:30-13:00)

Opening Remarks
Short Effects of Tempo and Tonality on Listener Enjoyment of Automated Pop Mashups Anh-Dung Dinh, Xinyang Wu, Andrew Horner
Full Chord Latent Decoupling for Music Mashups Yu Foon Darin Chau, Andrew Horner
Short Can Language Models Verify Classical Music Note Sequences for Early Learners? Radhika Grover, Ankit Maurya, Manikandan Ravikiran, Rohit Saluja
Full Pay (Cross) Attention to the Melody: Curriculum Masking for Single-Encoder Melodic Harmonization Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, Dimos Makris, Konstantinos Soiledis, Konstantinos-Theodoros Tsamis, Vassilis Katsouros, Emilios Cambouropouloss
Poster Emovectors: assessing emotional content in jazz improvisations for creativity evaluation Anna Jordanous
Lunch Break/Keynote (13:00-14:00)

Session II: Paper Presentation & AI Music Showcase (14:00-16:00)

Short Story2MIDI: Emotionally Aligned Music Generation from Text Mohammad Shokri, Alexandra Salem, Gabriel Levine, Johanna Devaney, Sarah Ita Levitan
Full MusicAIR: A Multimodal AI Music Generation Framework Powered by an Algorithm-Driven Core Callie C. Liao, Duoduo Liao, and Ellie L. Zhang
Short A Modular Approach to Music Generation: Adding Music Controls to Neural Audio Compression Models Daniel Faronbi, Peter Traver, Juan Bello
Full Neural Motif Recombination: A Transformer-Based Framework for Cross-Genre Music Generation Sanjay Majumder
Short Diffusion for Room Impulse Response Generation Rebecca Wroblewski, Julius Smith
Poster Applying Literary Structures to AI Music Models Jada Polard
Full Dynamic Multi-Species Bird Soundscape Generation with Acoustic Patterning and 3D Spatialization Ellie L. Zhang, Duoduo Liao, and Callie C. Liao
Poster BiGRU: Bi-Directional GRU-Based Approach for Audio Source Separation Sanjay Majumder, Karl Reichard

Session III: AI Music Competition & Showcase (16:00-17:30)

Music "Drifting in Circles": Algorithmic Music based on Symbolic Musical Patterns Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa Gil
Music two tales from the shadows of the grid Brian Lindgren
Music Hallucinations for voice and piano Kyle Vanderburg
Music Conditioned Stochasticity: AI-Assisted Composition with Fine-Tuned Latent Diffusion Misagh Azimi
Music Trajectories for an Autoencoded Body Tsubasa Tanak, Kyohei Uchida
Music Zone 19: An Algorithmic Journey Through the 19-EDO Soundscape Ali Balighi
Closing Remarks & Award Announcements

*The program schedule is subject to change.

AIMG 2025 AI Music Competition Winners

  • 1st Place
    • Brian Lindgren, "Two Tales from the Shadows of the Grid”
    • Tsubasa Tanaka and Kyohei Uchida, "Trajectories for an Autoencoded Body"
  • 3rd Place
    • Misagh Azimi, “Collective Consciousness 1.0”
  • Honorable Mention
    • Ali Balighi, "Zone 19: An Algorithmic Journey Through the 19-EDO Soundscape"
    • Kyle Vanderburg, "Hallucinations for Voice and Piano”
    • Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa Gil, ""Drifting in Circles": Algorithmic Music based on Symbolic Musical Patterns"

Topics

This is an open call for papers, which includes original contributions considering recent findings in theory, applications, and methodologies in the field of AI music generation. The list of topics includes, but not limited to:

  • Machine learning/AI for music
  • Natural language processing for music generation
  • Algorithmic music generation
  • Music generation based on a specific aspect: lyrical, chordal, motivic, melodic, and rhythmic
  • AI-generated lyrics
  • AI-generated instrumental audio (including vocal)
  • Computational musicology
  • AI music interpretation
  • AI music data representation
  • Music evaluation metrics
  • Multiple-channel AI music generation
  • AI musical fusion (notes, audio, etc.)
  • AI generation for musical performance and expression
  • AI music enhancement (e.g. AI-generated instrumentation)
  • AI musical ethics
  • AI music generation datasets
  • Human-Centered Interaction (HCI) for AI music generation
  • AI music for neuroscientific applications
  • AI-aided music theory applications
  • AI bird song generation and translation
  • AI natural sound generation

Important Dates


  • Oct 6, 2025: Submission of full papers (8-10 pages)
  • Oct. 13, 2025: Submission of short papers (5-7 pages)
  • Oct. 27, 2025: Submission of poster abstracts (3-4 pages)
  • Oct. 20 Oct. 31, 2025: Submission of AI musical compositions (see Submission Guidelines)
  • Nov 2, 2025: Notification of paper acceptance
  • Acceptance notifications and review reports were sent via email. Please consider all reviewers' comments and address their recommendations in meaningful edits to your paper before submitting the revision by the deadline specified in your email for final review.

  • Nov 17, 2025: Notification of music acceptance
  • Nov. 22, 2025: Camera-ready of accepted papers submission for the main conference
  • Nov. 20, 2025: Pre-recorded video uploading to the main conference
  • As required by the main conference, all accepted papers are required to provide a video presentation. Authors must upload their presentation videos (.mp4) to the main conference video server by the deadline.

  • Nov. 22, 2025: At least one full registration required by the IEEE Big Data conference for paper publication
  • Dec. 9, 2025: IEEE Big Data - AIMG 2025 Workshop (Online)
  • Dec. 8-11, 2025: IEEE Big Data Conference.

Submission Guidelines

  • General Submission Guidelines
  • AI Music Composition Submission Guidelines
    We welcome compositions that explore creativity through AI or algorithmic methods. Each submission should include:
    • An abstract (1–2 pages) formatted according to the IEEE conference paper format.
    • A sharable MP3 audio or MP4 video link (maximum duration: 10 minutes).
    • Optional: sheet music (no more than 8 pages), appended to the abstract.
    Please note that composition submissions not created using AI or algorithmic methods, or including audio exceeding 10 minutes in duration, will not be eligible for participation in the AI Music Composition Competition.

Program Chair

  • Ellie Zhang, IntelliSky, USA
  • Callie Liao, Stanford University & IntelliSky , USA

Program Committee

  • Zhiqian Chen, Mississippi State University, USA
  • Shlomo Dubnov, University of California - San Diego, USA
  • Kaiqun Fu, Texas Christian University, USA
  • Jesse Guessford, George Mason University, USA
  • Ge Jin, Purdue University, USA
  • Fanchun Jin, Google, USA
  • Lindi Liao, George Mason University, USA
  • Sean Luke, George Mason University, USA
  • Jeffrey Morris, Texas A&M University, USA
  • Chen Shen, Google, USA
  • Alex Wong, Yale University, USA
  • Yanjia Zhang, Boston University, USA

If you are interested in serving on the workshop program committee or paper reviewing, please contact Workshop Chair.

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