# Transfer Learning of Artist Group Factors to Musical Genre Classification

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02043 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.02043/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 5 May 2018.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Complex Network-Based Approach for Feature Extraction and Classification of Musical Genres](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.04654/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The automated recognition of music genres from audio information is a challenging problem, as genre labels are subjective and noisy. Artist labels are less subjective and less noisy, while certain artists may relate more strongly to certain genres. At the same time, at prediction time, it is not guaranteed that artist labels are available for a given audio segment. Therefore, in this work, we propose to apply the transfer learning framework, learning artist-related information which will be used at inference time for genre classification. We consider different types of artist-related information, expressed through artist group factors, which will allow for more efficient learning and stronger robustness to potential label noise. Furthermore, we investigate how to achieve the highest validation accuracy on the given FMA dataset, by experimenting with various kinds of transfer methods, including single-task transfer, multi-task transfer and finally multi-task learning.