BEAT: Tokenizing and Generating Symbolic Music by Uniform Temporal Steps

arXiv:2604.19532v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tokenizing music to fit the general framework of language models is a compelling challenge, especially considering the diverse symbolic structures in which music can be represented (e.g., sequences, grids, and graphs). To date, most approaches tokenize symbolic music as sequences of musical events, such as onsets, pitches, time shifts, or compound note events. This strategy is intuitive and has proven effective in Transformer-based models, but it