Yixiao Zhang
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PhD Student in Artificial Intelligence and Music, |
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I am honored to become a reviewer at ISMIR 2023.
I will join Sony Corporation during October - December 2023 as an intern.
I will join Yamaha R&D during June - August 2023 as an intern.
About me
I am currently the 3rd-year PhD in AIM Program, Queen Mary University of London. I am honored to be advised by Prof. Simon Dixon and Dr. Mark Levy.
Before that, I was a Research Assistant in the Music X Lab at NYU Shanghai from 2019 to 2020, working on music generation.
I received the Bachelor of Engineering degree (2015-2019) in Computer Science and Technology from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC).
Research Interests
I currently work on multimodal music representation learning (music + text) for music generation.
Education
2020.9 - Current: PhD Student in Artificial Intelligence and Music, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK
2015.9 - 2019.6: Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology, UESTC, China
Research Experience
2020.9 - Current: PhD Student, Queen Mary University of London. Supervisor: Prof. Simon Dixon and Dr. Mark Levy
Topic: Machine Learning Methods for Artificial Musicality (in collaboration with Apple)
2022.7 - 2022.8: Research Assistant, Machine Learning Department, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
2019.6 - 2020.9: Research Assistant, Music X Lab, NYU Shanghai. Supervisor: Dr. Gus Xia
Topic: Music Representation Learning, Music Generation
2018.11 - 2019.6: Research Intern, Machine Learning Group, Microsoft Research Asia. Supervisor: Dr. Weiqing Liu and Dr. Xiao Yang
Topic: Meta Learning on Finaincial Data Prediction
2018.7 - 2018.10: Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Lethbridge, Canada. Supervisor: Prof. Yllias Chali
Topic: Deep Learning Methods on Text Summarization
2016.9 - 2018.6: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Institute of Intelligent Learning Science and Applications, UESTC. Supervisor: Prof. Hong Qu
Topic: Natural Language Processing
Conference Publications
2022
Runbang Zhang, Yixiao Zhang, Kai Shao, Ying Shan and Gus Xia, “Vis2Mus: Exploring Multimodal Representation Mapping for Controllable Music Generation”, arxiv
Yixiao Zhang, Junyan Jiang, Gus Xia and Simon Dixon, “Interpreting Song Lyrics with an Audio-Informed Pre-trained Language Model”, ISMIR 2022, Best Paper Award Nomination, Brave New Idea Award Nomination. arxiv
Junyan Jiang, Daniel Chin, Yixiao Zhang and Gus Xia, “Learning Hierarchical Metrical Structure Beyond Measures”, ISMIR 2022. arxiv
Shiqi Wei, Gus Xia, Yixiao Zhang, Liwei Lin and Weiguo Gao, “Music Phrase inpainting using long-term representation and contrastive loss”, ICASSP 2022. arxiv
2021
Yixiao Zhang and Simon Dixon, “Generating Comments from Music and Lyrics”, DMRN+16 Workshop (Poster).
Nick Bryan-Kinns, Berker Banar, Corey Ford, Courtney N Reed, Yixiao Zhang, Simon Colton and Jack Armitage, “Exploring XAI for the Arts: Explaining Latent Space in Generative Music”, NeurIPS 2021 Workshop XAI4Debugging. paper
Yixiao Zhang, Gus Xia, Mark Levy and Simon Dixon, “COSMIC: A Conversational Interface for Human-AI Music Co-Creation”, NIME 2021. paper
2020
Yixiao Zhang, Ziyu Wang, Dingsu Wang and Gus Xia, “BUTTER: A Representation Learning Framework for Bi-directional Music-Sentence Retrieval and Generation”, NLP4MusA Workshop for ISMIR 2020. paper
Ziyu Wang, Yiyi Zhang, Yixiao Zhang, Junyan Jiang, Ruihan Yang, Junbo Zhao(Jake) and Gus Xia, “PianoTree VAE: Structured Representation Learning for Polyphonic Music,” ISMIR 2020. paper
Ziyu Wang, Dingsu Wang, Yixiao Zhang and Gus Xia, “Learning Interpretable Representation for Controllable Polyphonic Music Generation,” ISMIR 2020. paper
Yixiao Zhang and Gus Xia, “Symbolic Melody Phrase Segmentation Using Neural Network with Conditional Random Field”, CSMT 2020. paper
Book Chapters
The intersection of audio, music and computers: audio & music technology (ii), ISBN: 978-7-309-15990-5/J.466. Contributed to the writing of Chapter 11.
Community Activities
I have been invited to serve as a reviewer for the TISMIR journal; have volunteered for the AI Song Contest 2022, NIME 2021, and ISMIR 2021; and have participated in the organization of the DMRN+16 workshop.
Teaching Assistants
2023 Spring
ECS7013P Deep Learning for Music and Audio
ECS784P Data Analytics
2022 Fall
ECS708P Machine Learning
ECS759P Artificial Intelligence
2022 Spring
ECS759P Artificial Intelligence
2021 Fall
ECS7020P Principles of Machine Learning
ECS759P Artificial Intelligence
2017 Fall
C & Cpp Programming
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