Lastest Update: 26th Sep. 2025 

Conference Paper

• Multi-Accent Mandarin Dry-Vocal Singing Dataset: Benchmark for Singing Accent Recognition
  Zihao Wang, Shulei Ji, Le Ma, Yuhang Jin, Shun Lei, Jianyi Chen, Haoying Fu, Roger B. Dannenberg, Kejun Zhang
  ACM MM 2025
  Dublin, Ireland. October, 2025.

• AI-Assisted Human-Pet Artistic Musical Co-Creation for Wellness Therapy
  Zihao Wang, Le Ma, Yuhang Jin, Yongsheng Feng, Xin Pan, Shulei Ji, Kejun Zhang
  IJCAI 2025
  Montreal, Canada. August, 2025.

• Generative Music Models’ Alignment with Professional and Amateur Users’ Expectations
  Zihao Wang, Jiaxing Yu, Haoxuan Liu, Zehui Zheng, Yuhang Jin, Shuyu Li, Shulei Ji, Kejun Zhang
  ACL 2025 Findings
  Vienna, Austria. July, 2025

• MusER: Musical Element-Based Regularization for Generating Symbolic Music with Emotion
  Shulei Ji, Xinyu Yang
  The 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
  Vancouver, Canada. February, 2024.

• Emotion-Conditioned Melody Harmonization with Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder
  Shulei Ji, Xinyu Yang
  The 2023 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2023)
  Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA. Octorber, 2023.

• ADFF: Attention Based Deep Feature Fusion Approach for Music Emotion Recognition
  Zi Huang, Shulei Ji, Zhilan Hu, Chuangjian Cai, Jing Luo, Xinyu Yang
  INTERSPEECH 2022
  Incheon Songdo ConvensiA, Korea. September, 2022.

• MG-VAE: Deep Chinese folk songs generation with specific regional styles
  Jing Luo, Xinyu Yang, Shulei Ji, Juan Li
  The 7th Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT 2019)
  Harbin, China. December 2019.

  
  

Journal Paper

• A Survey on Deep Learning for Symbolic Music Generation: Representations, Algorithms, Evaluations, and Challenges
  Shulei Ji, Xinyu Yang, Jing Luo
  ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 56, Issue 1, Article No.: 7, pp 1–39
  August 2023

• RL-Chord: CLSTM-Based Melody Harmonization Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
  Shulei Ji, Xinyu Yang, Jing Luo, Juan Li
  IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
  March 2023

• EmoMusicTV: Emotion-conditioned Symbolic Music Generation with Hierarchical Transformer VAE
  Shulei Ji, Xinyu Yang
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)
  May 2023

  
  

Preprints (no review)

• A comprehensive survey on deep music generation: Multi-level representations, algorithms, evaluations, and future directions
  Shulei Ji, Jing Luo, Xinyu Yang
  Nov 2020