2025:Call for Challenges

Call for Challenge Proposals

• • This page is still WIP. We will send an annoucement when it is finalized. **

Starting with MIREX 2024, we invite the ISMIR community to propose new research challenges that address cutting-edge problems in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). These challenges should aim to push the boundaries of current research and foster innovation in the field.

What's new

• We will accept more proposals compared to MIREX 2024.
• All proposed challenges must have an assigned task captain (name+email included).

Task Captain Responsibilities:

• Register on the MIREX Wiki and maintain a 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: Unlimited model size, Training set: any.

• Task captains may use proprietary datasets for evaluation.

Submission Format

A call for challenge proposal must contain the following content:

1. Title
2. Abstract
3. Task description
4. Significance of the task
5. Evaluation criteria
6. Datasets and resources provided
7. Requirements for submission

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