Automatic music generation with artificial intelligence typically requires a large amount of data which is hard to obtain for many less common genres and musical instruments. To tackle this issue, we present ongoing work and preliminary findings on the possibility for deep models to transfer knowledge from language to music, by finetuning large language models pre-trained on a massive text corpus on only hundreds of MIDI files of drum performances. We show that by doing so, one of the largest, state-of-the-art models (GPT3) is capable of generating reasonable drum grooves, while models that are not pre-trained (Transformer) shows no such ability beyond naive repetition. Evaluating generated music is a challenging task, more so is evaluating drum grooves with little precedence in literature. Hence, we propose a tailored structural evaluation method and analyze drum grooves produced by GPT3 compared to those played by human professionals, exposing the strengths and weaknesses of such generation by language-to-music transfer. Our findings suggest that language-to-music transfer learning with large language models is viable and promising.

鉴于大型语言模型的广泛能力，应该有可能朝着一般的文本的助手工作，这些助手与人类价值一致，这意味着它是有帮助，诚实的和无害的。在此方向上的初始遗传，我们研究简单的基线技术和评估，例如提示。我们发现，从模型规模增加适度的干预措施的好处，概括为各种对准评估，并不会损害大型模型的性能。接下来，我们调查与对齐，比较仿制，二进制歧视和排名偏好建模相关的几个培训目标的缩放趋势。我们发现排名优先级模型比模仿学习更好地表现得多，并且通常以模型大小更有利地缩放。相比之下，二进制歧视通常与模仿学习非常类似地执行和缩放。最后，我们研究了一种“偏好模型预训练阶段的培训阶段，其目的是在对人偏好的芬明时提高样本效率。

State-of-the-art poetry generation systems are often complex. They either consist of task-specific model pipelines, incorporate prior knowledge in the form of manually created constraints or both. In contrast, end-to-end models would not suffer from the overhead of having to model prior knowledge and could learn the nuances of poetry from data alone, reducing the degree of human supervision required. In this work, we investigate end-to-end poetry generation conditioned on styles such as rhyme, meter, and alliteration. We identify and address lack of training data and mismatching tokenization algorithms as possible limitations of past attempts. In particular, we successfully pre-train and release ByGPT5, a new token-free decoder-only language model, and fine-tune it on a large custom corpus of English and German quatrains annotated with our styles. We show that ByGPT5 outperforms other models such as mT5, ByT5, GPT-2 and ChatGPT, while also being more parameter efficient and performing favorably compared to humans. In addition, we analyze its runtime performance and introspect the model's understanding of style conditions. We make our code, models, and datasets publicly available.

Transfer learning, where a model is first pre-trained on a data-rich task before being finetuned on a downstream task, has emerged as a powerful technique in natural language processing (NLP). The effectiveness of transfer learning has given rise to a diversity of approaches, methodology, and practice. In this paper, we explore the landscape of transfer learning techniques for NLP by introducing a unified framework that converts all text-based language problems into a text-to-text format. Our systematic study compares pre-training objectives, architectures, unlabeled data sets, transfer approaches, and other factors on dozens of language understanding tasks. By combining the insights from our exploration with scale and our new "Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus", we achieve state-of-the-art results on many benchmarks covering summarization, question answering, text classification, and more. To facilitate future work on transfer learning for NLP, we release our data set, pre-trained models, and code.

The International Workshop on Reading Music Systems (WoRMS) is a workshop that tries to connect researchers who develop systems for reading music, such as in the field of Optical Music Recognition, with other researchers and practitioners that could benefit from such systems, like librarians or musicologists. The relevant topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: Music reading systems; Optical music recognition; Datasets and performance evaluation; Image processing on music scores; Writer identification; Authoring, editing, storing and presentation systems for music scores; Multi-modal systems; Novel input-methods for music to produce written music; Web-based Music Information Retrieval services; Applications and projects; Use-cases related to written music. These are the proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Reading Music Systems, held in Alicante on the 23rd of July 2021.

基于变压器的语言模型最近在许多自然语言任务中取得了显着的结果。但是，通常通过利用大量培训数据来实现排行榜的性能，并且很少通过将明确的语言知识编码为神经模型。这使许多人质疑语言学对现代自然语言处理的相关性。在本文中，我介绍了几个案例研究，以说明理论语言学和神经语言模型仍然相互关联。首先，语言模型通过提供一个客观的工具来测量语义距离，这对语言学家很有用，语义距离很难使用传统方法。另一方面，语言理论通过提供框架和数据源来探究我们的语言模型，以了解语言理解的特定方面，从而有助于语言建模研究。本论文贡献了三项研究，探讨了语言模型中语法 - 听觉界面的不同方面。在论文的第一部分中，我将语言模型应用于单词类灵活性的问题。我将Mbert作为语义距离测量的来源，我提供了有利于将单词类灵活性分析为方向过程的证据。在论文的第二部分中，我提出了一种方法来测量语言模型中间层的惊奇方法。我的实验表明，包含形态句法异常的句子触发了语言模型早期的惊喜，而不是语义和常识异常。最后，在论文的第三部分中，我适应了一些心理语言学研究，以表明语言模型包含了论证结构结构的知识。总而言之，我的论文在自然语言处理，语言理论和心理语言学之间建立了新的联系，以为语言模型的解释提供新的观点。

Transformers and variational autoencoders (VAE) have been extensively employed for symbolic (e.g., MIDI) domain music generation. While the former boast an impressive capability in modeling long sequences, the latter allow users to willingly exert control over different parts (e.g., bars) of the music to be generated. In this paper, we are interested in bringing the two together to construct a single model that exhibits both strengths. The task is split into two steps. First, we equip Transformer decoders with the ability to accept segment-level, time-varying conditions during sequence generation. Subsequently, we combine the developed and tested in-attention decoder with a Transformer encoder, and train the resulting MuseMorphose model with the VAE objective to achieve style transfer of long pop piano pieces, in which users can specify musical attributes including rhythmic intensity and polyphony (i.e., harmonic fullness) they desire, down to the bar level. Experiments show that MuseMorphose outperforms recurrent neural network (RNN) based baselines on numerous widely-used metrics for style transfer tasks.

自动音乐转录（AMT），从原始音频推断出音符，是音乐理解核心的具有挑战性的任务。与通常专注于单个扬声器的单词的自动语音识别（ASR）不同，AMT通常需要同时转换多个仪器，同时保留微量间距和定时信息。此外，许多AMT数据集是“低资源”，甚至甚至专家音乐家发现音乐转录困难和耗时。因此，事先工作专注于任务特定的架构，对每个任务的个体仪器量身定制。在这项工作中，通过对低资源自然语言处理（NLP）的序列到序列转移学习的有前途的结果，我们证明了通用变压器模型可以执行多任务AMT，共同转录音乐的任意组合跨几个转录数据集的仪器。我们展示了统一培训框架在一系列数据集中实现了高质量的转录结果，大大提高了低资源仪器（如吉他）的性能，同时为丰富的仪器（如钢琴）保持了强大的性能。最后，通过扩大AMT的范围，我们揭示了更加一致的评估指标和更好的数据集对齐，并为这个新的多任务AMT的新方向提供了强的基线。

语言是人类交流的主要工具，其中幽默是最有吸引力的部分之一。使用计算机，又称自然语言生成（NLG）的人类产生自然语言，已广泛用于对话系统，聊天机器人，机器翻译以及计算机AID创建，例如Idea Generations，剧本。但是，自然语言的幽默方面相对不足，尤其是在预训练的语言模型时代。在这项工作中，我们旨在初步测试NLG是否可以像人类一样产生幽默。我们构建了一个新的数据集，该数据集由众多数字化的中国可笑的串扰脚本（称为c $^3 $简称），该脚本适用于1800年代以来名为“ Xiangsheng”的流行中国表演艺术。 （为了方便非中国扬声器，我们在本文中称为“ Xiangsheng”的“ Crosstalk”。）我们基准了各种一代方法，包括训练seq2seq，微调中级PLMS和大型PLMS（大型PLMS）（有无微调）。此外，我们还进行了人类评估，表明1）大规模预处理在很大程度上提高了串扰的产生质量； 2）即使是从最佳PLM产生的脚本也远非我们的期望，只有65％的人类创建的串扰质量。我们得出结论，使用大型PLM可以在很大程度上改善幽默的产生，但仍处于起步阶段。 \ url {https://github.com/anonno2/crosstalk-generation}公开可用数据和基准代码。

对机器学习和创造力领域的兴趣越来越大。这项调查概述了计算创造力理论，关键机器学习技术（包括生成深度学习）和相应的自动评估方法的历史和现状。在对该领域的主要贡献进行了批判性讨论之后，我们概述了当前的研究挑战和该领域的新兴机会。

Finetuning language models on a collection of datasets phrased as instructions has been shown to improve model performance and generalization to unseen tasks. In this paper we explore instruction finetuning with a particular focus on (1) scaling the number of tasks, (2) scaling the model size, and (3) finetuning on chain-of-thought data. We find that instruction finetuning with the above aspects dramatically improves performance on a variety of model classes (PaLM, T5, U-PaLM), prompting setups (zero-shot, few-shot, CoT), and evaluation benchmarks (MMLU, BBH, TyDiQA, MGSM, open-ended generation). For instance, Flan-PaLM 540B instruction-finetuned on 1.8K tasks outperforms PALM 540B by a large margin (+9.4% on average). Flan-PaLM 540B achieves state-of-the-art performance on several benchmarks, such as 75.2% on five-shot MMLU. We also publicly release Flan-T5 checkpoints, which achieve strong few-shot performance even compared to much larger models, such as PaLM 62B. Overall, instruction finetuning is a general method for improving the performance and usability of pretrained language models.

当前的语言模型可以产生高质量的文本。他们只是复制他们之前看到的文本，或者他们学习了普遍的语言抽象吗？要取笑这些可能性，我们介绍了乌鸦，这是一套评估生成文本的新颖性，专注于顺序结构（n-gram）和句法结构。我们将这些分析应用于四种神经语言模型（LSTM，变压器，变换器-XL和GPT-2）。对于本地结构 - 例如，单个依赖性 - 模型生成的文本比来自每个模型的测试集的人类生成文本的基线显着不那么新颖。对于大规模结构 - 例如，总句结构 - 模型生成的文本与人生成的基线一样新颖甚至更新颖，但模型仍然有时复制，在某些情况下，在训练集中重复超过1000字超过1,000字的通道。我们还表现了广泛的手动分析，表明GPT-2的新文本通常在形态学和语法中形成良好，但具有合理的语义问题（例如，是自相矛盾）。

抒情一代是近年来已经看到的自然语言生成的流行子领域。由于流派的独特风格和内容，流行歌词具有独特的兴趣，除了专业流行文章流行过程中的景区后面的高度合作。在本文中，我们介绍了一个协作线路级抒情生成系统，它通过T5变压器模型使用传输学习，直到日期尚未用于生成流行歌词。通过直接与专业的歌曲撰稿人直接沟通，我们开发了一种能够学习诸如押韵，匹配线击败要求以及具有特定目标单词的结尾线的抒情和风格任务的模型。我们的方法对多个数据集的现有方法有利地进行了比较，从我们的在线研究和与行业歌曲撰稿者采访中产生积极的结果。

推理是人类认知和智力的关键支柱。在过去的十年中，我们目睹了自然语言处理的巨大收益和大型语言模型的前所未有的缩放。最近的工作表征了很少射击技术的能力，例如思想链，可以在大语言模型中模仿人类的推理。这个标志性的功能很少，连同不断扩展的语言模型相结合，打开了解决各种任务的可能性的远景，例如数学单词问题，代码完成和常识性推理。促使思想链（COT）通过提供中间步骤并敦促模型遵循相同的过程，从而进一步推动了模型的性能。尽管具有令人信服的性能，但在这些模型中推理能力的起源却很少探索。这项工作启动了对大语言模型中推理机制的更深入了解的初步步骤。我们的工作围绕查询模型，同时在提示中控制除一个组件以外的所有组件外：符号，模式和文本。然后，我们分析查询之间的性能差异。我们的结果表明，在提示中存在事实模式对于COT的成功并不是必需的。尽管如此，我们从经验上表明，仅依靠模式也不足以获得高质量的结果。我们认为文本具有常识性知识和意义。我们详尽的经验分析提供了定性的例子，说明了文本和模式之间的共生关系。这种对COT的系统理解使我们能够设计简洁的思想链，被称为CCOT，在其中修剪文本和模式只能保留其关键角色，同时以PAR或更高的求解任务率交付。

Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has renewed interest in building systems that learn and think like people. Many advances have come from using deep neural networks trained end-to-end in tasks such as object recognition, video games, and board games, achieving performance that equals or even beats humans in some respects. Despite their biological inspiration and performance achievements, these systems differ from human intelligence in crucial ways. We review progress in cognitive science suggesting that truly human-like learning and thinking machines will have to reach beyond current engineering trends in both what they learn, and how they learn it. Specifically, we argue that these machines should (a) build causal models of the world that support explanation and understanding, rather than merely solving pattern recognition problems; (b) ground learning in intuitive theories of physics and psychology, to support and enrich the knowledge that is learned; and (c) harness compositionality and learning-to-learn to rapidly acquire and generalize knowledge to new tasks and situations. We suggest concrete challenges and promising routes towards these goals that can combine the strengths of recent neural network advances with more structured cognitive models.

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) is the task of automatically detecting and correcting errors in text. The task not only includes the correction of grammatical errors, such as missing prepositions and mismatched subject-verb agreement, but also orthographic and semantic errors, such as misspellings and word choice errors respectively. The field has seen significant progress in the last decade, motivated in part by a series of five shared tasks, which drove the development of rule-based methods, statistical classifiers, statistical machine translation, and finally neural machine translation systems which represent the current dominant state of the art. In this survey paper, we condense the field into a single article and first outline some of the linguistic challenges of the task, introduce the most popular datasets that are available to researchers (for both English and other languages), and summarise the various methods and techniques that have been developed with a particular focus on artificial error generation. We next describe the many different approaches to evaluation as well as concerns surrounding metric reliability, especially in relation to subjective human judgements, before concluding with an overview of recent progress and suggestions for future work and remaining challenges. We hope that this survey will serve as comprehensive resource for researchers who are new to the field or who want to be kept apprised of recent developments.

内容的离散和连续表示（例如，语言或图像）具有有趣的属性，以便通过机器的理解或推理此内容来探索或推理。该职位论文提出了我们关于离散和持续陈述的作用及其在深度学习领域的作用的意见。目前的神经网络模型计算连续值数据。信息被压缩成密集，分布式嵌入式。通过Stark对比，人类在他们的语言中使用离散符号。此类符号代表了来自共享上下文信息的含义的世界的压缩版本。此外，人工推理涉及在认知水平处符号操纵，这促进了抽象的推理，知识和理解的构成，泛化和高效学习。通过这些见解的动机，在本文中，我们认为，结合离散和持续的陈述及其处理对于构建展示一般情报形式的系统至关重要。我们建议并讨论了几个途径，可以在包含离散元件来结合两种类型的陈述的优点来改进当前神经网络。

本次调查绘制了用于分析社交媒体数据的生成方法的研究状态的广泛的全景照片（Sota）。它填补了空白，因为现有的调查文章在其范围内或被约会。我们包括两个重要方面，目前正在挖掘和建模社交媒体的重要性：动态和网络。社会动态对于了解影响影响或疾病的传播，友谊的形成，友谊的形成等，另一方面，可以捕获各种复杂关系，提供额外的洞察力和识别否则将不会被注意的重要模式。

用全球性结构（例如编织）合成人体运动是一个具有挑战性的任务。现有方法倾向于集中在局部光滑的姿势过渡并忽视全球背景或运动的主题。在这项工作中，我们提出了一种音乐驱动的运动综合框架，其产生与输入节拍同步的人类运动的长期序列，并共同形成尊重特定舞蹈类型的全局结构。此外，我们的框架可以实现由音乐内容控制的不同运动，而不仅仅是由节拍。我们的音乐驱动舞蹈综合框架是一个分层系统，包括三个层次：姿势，图案和编排。姿势水平由LSTM组件组成，该组件产生时间相干的姿势。图案级别引导一组连续姿势，形成一个使用新颖运动感知损失所属的特定分布的运动。并且舞蹈级别选择所执行的运动的顺序，并驱动系统遵循舞蹈类型的全球结构。我们的结果展示了我们的音乐驱动框架的有效性，以在各种舞蹈类型上产生自然和一致的运动，控制合成运动的内容，并尊重舞蹈的整体结构。

We demonstrate that scaling up language models greatly improves task-agnostic, few-shot performance, sometimes even becoming competitive with prior state-ofthe-art fine-tuning approaches. Specifically, we train GPT-3, an autoregressive language model with 175 billion parameters, 10x more than any previous nonsparse language model, and test its performance in the few-shot setting. For all tasks, GPT-3 is applied without any gradient updates or fine-tuning, with tasks and few-shot demonstrations specified purely via text interaction with the model. GPT-3 achieves strong performance on many NLP datasets, including translation, question-answering, and cloze tasks. We also identify some datasets where GPT-3's few-shot learning still struggles, as well as some datasets where GPT-3 faces methodological issues related to training on large web corpora.