# Youling: an AI-Assisted Lyrics Creation System

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06724 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.06724/

## Key facts

- Cited by 10 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 8 of its 17 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 18 Jan 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 8 of 8)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [A Pre-training Based Personalized Dialogue Generation Model with Persona-sparse Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.04700/) (2019)
- [SongNet: Rigid Formats Controlled Text Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.08022/) (2020)
- [A Hierarchical Attention Based Seq2seq Model for Chinese Lyrics Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.06481/) (2019)
- [A Syllable-Structured, Contextually-Based Conditionally Generation of Chinese Lyrics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.09322/) (2019)
- [Evaluating Creative Language Generation: The Case of Rap Lyric Ghostwriting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1612.03205/) (2016)
- [Combining Learned Lyrical Structures and Vocabulary for Improved Lyric Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.04651/) (2018)
- [Copy this Sentence](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.09856/) (2019)

## Built on by (most cited first, 10 of 10)

- [TwistList: Resources and Baselines for Tongue Twister Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.03457/) (2023)
- [SongComposer: A Large Language Model for Lyric and Melody Generation in Song Composition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.17645/) (2024)
- [Measuring Human Contribution in AI-Assisted Content Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.14792/) (2024)
- [Multi-Modal Experience Inspired AI Creation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.02427/) (2022)
- [SongRewriter: A Chinese Song Rewriting System with Controllable Content and Rhyme Scheme](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.15037/) (2022)
- [Syllable-level lyrics generation from melody exploiting character-level language model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.00863/) (2023)
- [REFFLY: Melody-Constrained Lyrics Editing Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.00292/) (2024)
- [Joint Learning of Wording and Formatting for Singable Melody-to-Lyric Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.02146/) (2023)
- [Sudowoodo: a Chinese Lyric Imitation System with Source Lyrics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.04665/) (2023)
- [CoLyricist: Enhancing Lyric Writing with AI through Workflow-Aligned Support](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.22606/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Recently, a variety of neural models have been proposed for lyrics generation. However, most previous work completes the generation process in a single pass with little human intervention. We believe that lyrics creation is a creative process with human intelligence centered. AI should play a role as an assistant in the lyrics creation process, where human interactions are crucial for high-quality creation. This paper demonstrates textitYouling, an AI-assisted lyrics creation system, designed to collaborate with music creators. In the lyrics generation process, textitYouling supports traditional one pass full-text generation mode as well as an interactive generation mode, which allows users to select the satisfactory sentences from generated candidates conditioned on preceding context. The system also provides a revision module which enables users to revise undesired sentences or words of lyrics repeatedly. Besides, textitYouling allows users to use multifaceted attributes to control the content and format of generated lyrics. The demo video of the system is available at https://youtu.be/DFeNpHk0pm4.