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Education

Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

Ph.D. in College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS)

• Aug 2024 - Present
• Singapore
• Researching Continual Learning under the guidance of Prof. Ying Wei.

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication (BUPT)

Bachelor in Intelligence Science and Technology

• Sep 2020 - Jun 2024
• Beijing
• GPA: 89.13/100 (Rank: 8/68)

Work experience

Nanjing Qiyin Technology Co. Ltd.

Co-founder and AI Algorithm Leader

• 2021 - 2024
• Awarded the National Gold Medal for the Boya AI Music Project at the 7th China College Students “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
• Founded Qiyin Technology and secured million-level seed round financing from MiraclePlus (formerly YC China).
• Designed and trained models for symbolic music generation, melody generation, and music segment similarity using contrastive learning.

Publications

symusic: A swift and unified toolkit for symbolic music processing

Yikai Liao, Zhongqi Luo, et al., "symusic: A swift and unified toolkit for symbolic music processing," Extended Abstracts for the Late-Breaking Demo Session of the 25th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2024.

MICW: A Multi-Instrument Music Generation Model Based on the Improved Compound Word

Y. Liao, W. Yue, Y. Jian, Z. Wang, Y. Gao and C. Lu, "MICW: A Multi-Instrument Music Generation Model Based on the Improved Compound Word," 2022 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops (ICMEW), Taipei City, Taiwan, 2022, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1109/ICMEW56448.2022.9859531.

Projects

SyMusic

A fast note-level MIDI decoding library
Sep 2023

• Developed SyMusic, a cross-platform, note-level MIDI decoding library, nearly 1000 times faster than the widely-used mido library.
• Written in C++ with a Python interface via nanobind.
• 🎉 Now published in ISMIR 2024 LBD

Efficient BPE

An efficient implementation of BPE training algorithm
Apr 2023

• Optimized the BPE training algorithm for token pair merging.
• Implemented in pure Python, outperforming the Rust implementation in Hugging Face’s tokenizers.

Chord Recognizer

A fast chord extractor for MIDI
Sep 2022

• Implemented a hidden Markov chain model to extract chord progressions, using the Viterbi algorithm.
• Accelerated with Numba for performance.