Publications

MAJEPPA: Morphing and Assessing in a Unified Piano Performance Space

Jinwen Zhou, Huan Zhang, Weixi Zhai, Jinhua Liang, Aidan O. T. Hogg, Simon Dixon

ISMIR 2026 · Conference paper · To appear

Best Paper Award nomination

Oral Tradition-Encoded NanyinHGNN: Integrating Nanyin Music Preservation and Generation through a Pipa-Centric Dataset

Jianbing Xiahou, Weixi Zhai, Xu Cui

CSMT 2025 · 12th National Conference on Sound and Music Technology · Conference paper

Leveraging PerTok and Domain-Specific Transformer Design for Expressive MIDI Ornament Generation

Weixi Zhai

ISMIR 2025 · Late-breaking / demo

Weak Tokenization: A Preliminary Study of Dynamic Audio Chunking for Irregular Music Generation

Weixi Zhai

LLM4Music Workshop at ISMIR 2025 · Workshop poster

Blaming the Algorithm: An Analysis of Interpolation Failures in MusicVAE’s Latent Space

Weixi Zhai

3rd Workshop on Human-Centric Music Information Research at ISMIR 2025 · Workshop paper

Story2Nanyin: Chordless, Narrative-Driven Heterophonic Multi-Track MIDI Generation

Weixi Zhai

New in ML Workshop at ICML 2025 · Workshop poster