# Exploring Graph Representation of Chorales

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11745 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.11745/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 3 of its 12 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 27 Jan 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1301.3781/) (2013)
- [node2vec: Scalable Feature Learning for Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1607.00653/) (2016)
- [word2vec Explained: deriving Mikolov et al.'s negative-sampling word-embedding method](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1402.3722/) (2014)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This work explores areas overlapping music, graph theory, and machine learning. An embedding representation of a node, in a weighted undirected graph G, is a representation that captures the meaning of nodes in an embedding space. In this work, 383 Bach chorales were compiled and represented as a graph. Two application cases were investigated in this paper (i) learning node embedding representation using Continuous Bag of Words (CBOW), skip-gram, and node2vec algorithms, and (ii) learning node labels from neighboring nodes based on a collective classification approach. The results of this exploratory study ascertains many salient features of the graph-based representation approach applicable to music applications.