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archive 2025-07-2833 datasets carry the task tag "Music Generation" (the task itself: Music Generation), ordered by the archive's paper count. Page 1 of 1: 33 shown of 33. Facet routes are this site's own (the archive records the tag string, not a page).
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Question Answering 413Semantic Segmentation 347Object Detection 332Image Classification 283Classification 222Text Classification 167Language Modelling 166Text Generation 162Visual Question Answering (VQA) 144Named Entity Recognition (NER) 130Pose Estimation 124Anomaly Detection 119Action Recognition 115Instance Segmentation 111Sentiment Analysis 104Text Summarization 98Domain Adaptation 96Speech Recognition 96Reading Comprehension 95Information Retrieval 932D Object Detection 92Image Retrieval 87Machine Translation 82Relation Extraction 822D Semantic Segmentation 81Natural Language Inference 81Image Captioning 79Image Generation 79Depth Estimation 77Node Classification 75Natural Language Understanding 72Autonomous Driving 70Code Generation 70Object Tracking 693D Object Detection 67Face Recognition 67Link Prediction 67Person Re-Identification 65Data Augmentation 63Multi-Task Learning 593D Reconstruction 58Common Sense Reasoning 56Recommendation Systems 56Video Understanding 56Optical Character Recognition (OCR) 55Graph Classification 54Abstractive Text Summarization 52Emotion Recognition 52Medical Image Segmentation 52Word Embeddings 52Music Generation 33
Music Generation datasets 1–33 of 33
NSynth is a dataset of one shot instrumental notes, containing 305,979 musical notes with unique pitch, timbre and envelope.
138 papers · 2 benchmarks
The MAESTRO dataset contains over 200 hours of paired audio and MIDI recordings from ten years of International Piano-e-Competition.
118 papers · 1 benchmark
MusicCaps is a dataset composed of 5.5k music-text pairs, with rich text descriptions provided by human experts.
84 papers · 1 benchmark
POP909 is a dataset which contains multiple versions of the piano arrangements of 909 popular songs created by professional musicians.
43 papers · 0 benchmarks
URMP (University of Rochester Multi-Modal Musical Performance)
URMP (University of Rochester Multi-Modal Musical Performance) is a dataset for facilitating audio-visual analysis of musical performances.
38 papers · 2 benchmarks
The Lakh MIDI dataset is a collection of 176,581 unique MIDI files, 45,129 of which have been matched and aligned to entries in the Million Song Dataset.
36 papers · 0 benchmarks
The JSB chorales are a set of short, four-voice pieces of music well-noted for their stylistic homogeneity.
33 papers · 1 benchmark
Music21 is an untrimmed video dataset crawled by keyword query from Youtube.
33 papers · 0 benchmarks
MuseData is an electronic library of orchestral and piano classical music from CCARH.
28 papers · 0 benchmarks
EMOPIA (A Multi-Modal Pop Piano Dataset For Emotion Recognition and Emotion-based Music Generation)
EMOPIA (pronounced ‘yee-mò-pi-uh’) dataset is a shared multi-modal (audio and MIDI) database focusing on perceived emotion in pop piano music, to facilitate research on various tasks related to music emotion.
23 papers · 0 benchmarks
Groove (Groove MIDI Dataset)
The Groove MIDI Dataset (GMD) is composed of 13.6 hours of aligned MIDI and (synthesized) audio of human-performed, tempo-aligned expressive drumming.
16 papers · 2 benchmarks
VGMIDI is a dataset of piano arrangements of video game soundtracks.
15 papers · 0 benchmarks
ASAP (Aligned Scores and Performances)
ASAP is a dataset of 222 digital musical scores aligned with 1068 performances (more than 92 hours) of Western classical piano music.
13 papers · 2 benchmarks
The Lakh Pianoroll Dataset (LPD) is a collection of 174,154 multitrack pianorolls derived from the Lakh MIDI Dataset (LMD).
10 papers · 0 benchmarks
NES-MDB (Nintendo Entertainment System Music Database)
The Nintendo Entertainment System Music Database (NES-MDB) is a dataset intended for building automatic music composition systems for the NES audio synthesizer.
7 papers · 0 benchmarks
The MidiCaps dataset [1] is a large-scale dataset of 168,385 midi music files with descriptive text captions, and a set of extracted musical features.
6 papers · 0 benchmarks
The MusicBench dataset is a music audio-text pair dataset that was designed for text-to-music generation purpose and released along with Mustango text-to-music model.
6 papers · 1 benchmark
The ADL Piano MIDI is a dataset of 11,086 piano pieces from different genres.
5 papers · 0 benchmarks
The Song Describer Dataset (SDD) contains ~1.1k captions for 706 permissively licensed music recordings.
5 papers · 1 benchmark
The Bach Doodle Dataset is composed of 21.6 million harmonizations submitted from the Bach Doodle.
4 papers · 0 benchmarks
ComMU has 11,144 MIDI samples that consist of short note sequences created by professional composers with their corresponding 12 metadata.
4 papers · 0 benchmarks
The FakeMusicCaps dataset contains total of 27605 10 seconds music tracks corresponding to almost 77 hours, generated using 5 different Text-To-Music (TTM) models.
4 papers · 0 benchmarks
dMelodies is dataset of simple 2-bar melodies generated using 9 independent latent factors of variation where each data point represents a unique melody based on the following constraints: - Each melody will correspond to a unique scale…
4 papers · 0 benchmarks
A MIDI dataset of 500 4-part chorales generated by the KSChorus algorithm, annotated with results from hundreds of listening test participants, with 500 further unannotated chorales.
3 papers · 0 benchmarks
AIME (AI Music Evaluation Dataset)
The AIME dataset contains 6,000 audio tracks generated by 12 music generation models in addition to 500 tracks from MTG-Jamendo.
2 papers · 0 benchmarks
Guitar-TECHS (Guitar Tones/Techniques, Excerpts & Chords Dataset)
Guitar-TECHS is a comprehensive dataset featuring a variety of guitar techniques, musical excerpts, chords, and scales.
1 paper · 0 benchmarks
JAZZVAR Dataset (JAZZVAR: A Dataset of Variations found within Solo Piano Performances of Jazz Standards for Music Overpainting)
Jazz pianists often uniquely interpret jazz standards.
1 paper · 0 benchmarks
📊 Dataset Details - Name: JamendoMaxCaps - URL: https://huggingface.co/datasets/amaai-lab/JamendoMaxCaps - Content: 362,238 songs with captions generated by Qwen2-Audio Metadata Fields - genre - speed - variable tags 🎯 Rationale 1.
1 paper · 0 benchmarks
NES-VMDB is a dataset containing 98,940 gameplay videos from 389 NES games, each paired with its original soundtrack in symbolic format (MIDI).
1 paper · 0 benchmarks
Introduction The Niko Chord Progression Dataset is used in AccoMontage2.
1 paper · 0 benchmarks
XMIDI is a comprehensive, large-scale symbolic music dataset that includes accurate emotion and genre labels, consisting of 108,023 MIDI files.
1 paper · 0 benchmarks
YM2413-MDB is an 80s FM video game music dataset with multi-label emotion annotations.
1 paper · 0 benchmarks
abc_cc (ABC CC)
Dataset Summary The dataset used to train and evaluate TunesFormer is collected from two sources: The Session and ABCnotation.com.
1 paper · 0 benchmarks
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