AlignBeat: A Latent Variable Model for Multi-Class Beat Tracking from Partially Labeled Data

arXiv:2510.14391 · cs.SD, cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2025-10-16 · Read on arXiv

cs.SD, cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2025-10-16

Updated: 2026-09-26

Code: https://github.com/csteinmetz1/wavebeat

Terminology

• Transformer — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Activation Function — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• International Society for Music Information Retrieval — 2× in this paper
• Ablation Studies — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
• Beat Transformer: Demixed Beat and Downbeat Tracking with Dilated Self-Attention
• Beat this! Accurate beat tracking without DBN postprocessing
• WaveBeat: End-to-end beat and downbeat tracking in the time domain

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