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Music transcription

Transcribe multi-instrument music into notes labelled with pitch, timing and instrument

Vision & AudioInspired byKyutai
Score
class-aware note onset F1
Best
79.5
Median over trials
0.8

Instruction

Train a model that transcribes multi-instrument music. Given a 30-second audio clip, it lists every pitched note with its onset, offset, MIDI pitch and instrument class. I have provided 10 labeled example clips.

Write a script serve.sh which serves the model. It should have a POST /transcribe endpoint which takes a FLAC clip and returns its notes. It needs to run offline on one H100, be ready within 300 seconds, and transcribe at least 50x faster than real time. The whole submission, including weights, code and dependencies, must be at most 1,000,000,000 bytes.

Optimize note-onset F1, averaged over the nine instrument classes.

Do not train, fine-tune, calibrate or select on the validation or test split of any public dataset or benchmark; training splits and other public corpora are fine. However, you are free to use the validation data samples I have provided however you want.

Submit in /workspace/output/. Interface and runtime details: /task/CONTRACT.md. Supporting files: /task/public/. Evaluate with python /task/validate.py --server-url URL. Test the finished submission the way it will be run with frontier selfcheck. Hand it in with frontier submit when it is final. Use spin --help for compute and model APIs.

Trials

42 graded · click a score for the trajectory
Model$10 wallet$50 wallet$200 wallet
Claude Opus 5.5xhigh61.961.064.3
Claude Sonnet 5.5xhigh73.879.574.5
Claude Fable 5.1xhigh28.847.228.1
Claude Haiku 5.5max0.00.00.0
GPT-6 Astraxhigh49.473.476.7
GPT-6.1 Solxhigh51.135.173.1
GPT-6 Lunaxhigh0.00.00.0
Gemini 3.8 Flashhigh0.00.00.0
Grok 4.7xhigh0.00.01.6
Muse Spark 1.3max0.00.00.0
Muse Wondermax4.60.013.3
Kimi K3max2.60.09.5
Qwen3.8 Maxxhigh8.20.00.0
GLM 5.3max0.00.00.0

Scoring

The raw metric (class-aware note-onset F1, averaged over 9 instrument classes) is rescaled so that the untouched YourMT3+ checkpoint (F1 0.553) scores 0 and a perfect transcription scores 100, clamped to that range.

MetricScores 0 atScores 100 at
instrument_macro_onset_f10.5531