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Revision as of 06:31, 8 April 2025
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Call for Challenge Proposals & Task Captains
This page is still WIP. We will send an annoucement when it is finalized.
Starting with MIREX 2024, we invite the ISMIR community to participate in shaping the future of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) by either proposing new research challenges or volunteering as task captains for existing ones.
- New challenge proposals should aim to address cutting-edge problems and push the boundaries of current MIR research.
- Task captains for established tasks are encouraged to help revitalize them—potentially by updating evaluation methodologies, datasets, or other aspects to reflect recent advances in the field.
We also welcome challenge sponsors from both industry and academia, particularly those willing to contribute datasets, evaluation tools, or computational resources to support the competition. We also welcome the use of proprietary test sets—that is, datasets which will remain private and not be disclosed to either participants or MIREX organizers.
Rules for Year 2025
- For both new and established tasks, all proposals must have an assigned task captain responsible for evaluating participant submissions. Additionally, task captains may use proprietary datasets for evaluation.
- Task Captain Responsibilities:
- Register on the MIREX Wiki and maintain the task description page.
- Collect submissions via the MIREX submission server (or provide customized submission instructions).
- Execute and evaluate the submissions.
- Report results to MIREX and create a results page on the MIREX Wiki.
(Optional) Present a MIREX task captain poster at the Late-Breaking and Demo (LBD) session at ISMIR 2025.
Hints for Challenge Proposals
- To invite research groups without access to large datasets or extensive computational resources, you are encouraged to create multiple subtasks that impose different restrictions on model size and dataset usage. Example:
Subtask 1: Model size < 200M. Training set: MusDB18 only. Subtask 2: Model size: any. Training set: any.
- Task captains may use proprietary datasets for evaluation.
Submission Format
A call for challenge proposal must contain the following content:
- Title of the new task
- Abstract
- Task description
- Significance of the task
- Evaluation criteria
- Datasets and resources provided
- Requirements for submission
- Task captain information (name, title, affiliation, email, and MIREX Wiki username)
A task captain proposal should contain the following content:
- Title of the existing task
- Abstract
- Task description
- Evaluation criteria, if different from previous MIREXes
- Datasets and resources provided, if different from previous MIREXes
- Requirements for submission, if different from previous MIREXes
- Task captain information (name, title, affiliation, email, and MIREX Wiki username)
Please submit a 2-4 page PDF to the MIREX organizing committee future-mirex@googlegroups.com before the due date.
Deadlines
- Challenge proposals due: TBA
- Notification of acceptance: TBA
Contact Us
We look forward to receiving your innovative and impactful challenge proposals. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the MIREX organizing committee future-mirex@googlegroups.com.
MIREX 2025 Organizers:
- Junyan Jiang, New York University
- Akira Maezawa, Yamaha
- Ziyu Wang, New York University
- Yixiao Zhang, ByteDance
- Ruibin Yuan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois
- Gus Xia, MBZUAI
