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tags:
- music
- symbolic-music
- piano
- mirex
- midi
---

# DAMN for Piano Music Continuation

**DAMN (Delta-Absolute Modeling with Nested Transformers)** is a hierarchical autoregressive model for symbolic piano continuation, submitted to the **MIREX 2026 Symbolic Music Generation** task.

The model uses a score-level Transformer to model dependencies across notes and a note-level Transformer to autoregressively predict delta-onset, pitch, and duration.

## Model

- **Parameters:** 144M
- **Score-level decoder:** 14 layers
- **Note-level decoder:** 2 layers
- **Hidden size:** 768

## Inference

Inference code and usage instructions are available in the submission repository: [`naivecynics/MIREX2026-DAMN`](https://github.com/naivecynics/MIREX2026-DAMN)