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# GPT-2 for Music

Language Models such as GPT-2 can be used for Music Generation. The idea is to represent pieces of music as texts, effectively reducing the task to Language Generation.

This model is a rather small instance of GPT-2 trained the [Lakhclean dataset](https://colinraffel.com/projects/lmd/). The model generates 4 bars at a time at a 16th note resolution with 4/4 meter.

If you want to contribute, if you want to say hello, if you want to know more, find me on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-tristan-behrens-734967a2/)

## Model description

The model is GPT-2 with 6 decoders and 8 attention-heads each. The context length is 2048. The embedding dimensions are 512 as well.

## Intended uses & limitations

This model is just a proof of concept. It shows that HuggingFace can be used to compose music.

### How to use

There is a notebook in the repo that you can use to generate symbolic music and then render it.

### Limitations and bias

Since this model has been trained on a very small corpus of music, it is overfitting heavily. 

### Acknowledgements

This model has been created with support from NVIDIA. I am very grateful for the GPU compute they provided!