Hi all, In our normal tea talk time slot, we will have an ICML practice talk by Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski. Please be there with your constructively critical hats on. When: 15h00 Thursday June 21, 2012 (i.e. tomorrow) Where: TBA (hopefully AA3195) Title and Abstract: Modeling Temporal Dependencies in High-Dimensional Sequences: Application to Polyphonic Music Generation and Transcription We investigate the problem of modeling symbolic sequences of polyphonic music in a completely general piano-roll representation. We introduce a probabilistic model based on distribution estimators conditioned on a recurrent neural network that is able to discover temporal dependencies in high-dimensional sequences. Our approach outperforms many traditional models of polyphonic music on a variety of realistic datasets. We show how our musical language model can serve as a symbolic prior to improve the accuracy of polyphonic transcription. Cheers, Aaron -- Aaron C. Courville Département d’Informatique et de recherche opérationnelle Université de Montréal email:Aaron.Courville@gmail.com