Apply for community grant: Academic project

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by sander-wood - opened

Dear Huggingface team,

I am writing to express my strong interest in applying for a grant to support my work on the Textune project. Textune is a research project that explores the task of generating symbolic music scores from text descriptions using pre-trained language models.

We model the task of text-to-music generation as a sequence-to-sequence problem, and develop a transformer-based model that is capable of generating complete and semantically consistent music scores directly from descriptions in natural language based on text. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first model that achieves text-conditional symbolic music generation which is trained on real text-music pairs, and the music is generated entirely by the model without any hand-crafted rules.

As a student researcher, I am facing financial constraints that limit my ability to access the necessary resources, including high-performance computing systems and large-scale datasets. Therefore, I am seeking financial support to help me cover the expenses associated with conducting experiments, acquiring datasets, and presenting my findings at conferences.

I strongly believe that the results of this project will contribute to the development of innovative solutions in the field of generative models and symbolic music. I am eager to collaborate with experts in this field to explore new research directions and build a strong community around this topic.

Thank you for considering my application. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely,
Shangda Wu

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