{"slug": "got-a-pretrained-music-transformer-to-jam-with-me-live-no-fine-tuning-just-the-p", "title": "Got a pretrained music transformer to jam with me live, no fine-tuning, just steering the sampling [P]", "summary": "A musician used the pretrained Anticipatory Music Transformer (Thickstun et al., music-medium-800k) to improvise live alongside a MIDI keyboard without any fine-tuning, steering the model's sampling instead of training it. The player tracked their key while performing so the model could generate a second piano part in real time, demonstrating that a pretrained symbolic music model can follow a live human player through sampling control alone.", "body_md": "I wanted to see how far you can get making a pretrained symbolic music model \"listen\" to a live player without training it. Turns out pretty far. Setup: I play a MIDI keyboard, the Anticipatory Music Transformer (Thickstun et al., music-medium-800k) plays a second piano. While I play I track my key,", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/got-a-pretrained-music-transformer-to-jam-with-me-live-no-fine-tuning-just-the-p", "canonical_source": "https://aiflash.com/news/139726/", "published_at": "2026-10-26 13:00:23+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-26 13:12:48.185623+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "machine-learning", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Anticipatory Music Transformer", "Thickstun et al.", "music-medium-800k"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/got-a-pretrained-music-transformer-to-jam-with-me-live-no-fine-tuning-just-the-p", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/got-a-pretrained-music-transformer-to-jam-with-me-live-no-fine-tuning-just-the-p.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/got-a-pretrained-music-transformer-to-jam-with-me-live-no-fine-tuning-just-the-p.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/got-a-pretrained-music-transformer-to-jam-with-me-live-no-fine-tuning-just-the-p.jsonld"}}