BeatEdit: Symbolic Music Generation as Explicit Editing
arXiv:2607.11124v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Music creation is fundamentally a process of revision. Yet symbolic music generation remains dominated by paradigms that produce complete sequences from scratch, with limited support for selective modification. Edit-based methods have proven effective for text transformation tasks, but remain largely unexplored for symbolic music. We trace this absence to the representational level: conventional event-based music encodings lack the struc…