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Christos Plachouras
30th June 2025

Call for Late Breaking Demo Papers: First AES International Conference on AI and Machine Learning for Audio (AIMLA 2025)

AIMLA conference logo The AES International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Audio (AIMLA 2025), hosted at the Centre for Digital Music of Queen Mary University of London and taking place on Sept. 8-10, 2025 is calling for Late Breaking Demo Paper submissions.

We are seeking 2-page extended abstracts showcasing prototype systems and early research results that are highly relevant to the conference theme. At least one author must register for the conference and present their work as a poster in person during the main track poster session.

Submissions open on July 1, 2025 with a deadline of August 1, 2025. Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

For more information on submission guidelines, templates, and technical requirements, please visit: https://aes2.org/contributions/2025-1st-aes-international-conference-on-artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning-for-audio-call-for-contributions/

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Christos Plachouras
26th June 2025

AIM at NIME 2025

NIME 2025 logo On 24-27 June 2025, several AIM researchers will participate in the 2025 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2025).

As in previous years, AIM will have a strong presence at the conference, both in terms of numbers and overall impact. The papers below authored or co-authored by AIM members will be presented at the paper track:

(De)Constructing Timbre at NIME: Reflecting on Technology and Aesthetic Entanglements in Instrument Design, by Charalampos Saitis, Courtney N. Reed, Ashley Laurent Noel-Hirst, Giacomo Lepri, and Andrew McPherson
Designing Percussive Timbre Remappings: Negotiating Audio Representations and Evolving Parameter Spaces, by Jordie Shier, Rodrigo Constanzo, Charalampos Saitis, Andrew Robertson, and Andrew McPherson
pybela: a Python library to interface scientific and physical computing, by Teresa Pelinski, Giulio Moro, and Andrew McPherson
Waveform Autoencoding at the Edge of Perceivable Latency, by Franco Caspe, Andrew McPherson, and Mark Sandler
Drum Modal Feedback: Concept Design of an Augmented Percussion Instrument, by Lewis Wolstanholme, Jordie Shier, Rodrigo Constanzo, and Andrew McPherson

Music track

Diffy, by Jordie Shier; Xiaowan Yi

See you there!

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Christos Plachouras
26th June 2025

AIM at Pretrain 2025

Work from AIM researchers was presented on June 25th at the PreTrain 2025 pre-conference presentation event. The event, hosted by the King’s College London NLP Group in the Department of Informatics at King’s College London, aimed to showcase accepted work in the ACL 2025, ICML 2025, and ICLR 2025 conferences and foster discussions.

AIM PhD student Yinghao Ma presented the following paper he coauthored with, among others, academic Emmanouil Benetos:

MuPT: A Generative Symbolic Music Pretrained Transformer, Xingwei Qu, Yuelin Bai, Yinghao Ma, Ziya Zhou, Ka Man Lo, Jiaheng Liu, Ruibin Yuan, Lejun Min, Xueling Liu, Tianyu Zhang, Xinrun Du, Shuyue Guo, Yiming Liang, Yizhi Li, Shangda Wu, Junting Zhou, Tianyu Zheng, Ziyang Ma, Fengze Han, Wei Xue, Gus Xia, Emmanouil Benetos, Xiang Yue, Chenghua Lin, Xu Tan, Stephen W. Huang, Jie Fu, Ge Zhang, accepted at ICLR 2025.

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