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midisimx similarity search results output samples

What's new

🌟 midisimx vs midisim — comparison table

Feature / Change	midisimx	midisim
Model Architecture	⭐ One unified larger model	Two smaller models
Model Dimension	🔥 768	512
Model Depth	🔥 16 layers	16 + 8 layers
Attention Heads	🔥 12 heads	8 heads
Training Corpus Size	🌍 3M+ filtered & processed MIDIs	1M+ raw MIDIs
MIDI Event Representation	🎼 start-time · note/chord · pitch · duration	start-time · duration · pitch
Codebase Quality	💎 Improved, extended, modernized	Older original codebase
Overall Quality	✅ Major upgrade	Baseline

Main features

Ultra-fast and flexible GPU/CPU MIDI-to-MIDI similarity calculation, search and analysis
Quality pre-trained model and pre-computed embeddings sets
Stand-alone, versatile, and extensive codebase for general or custom MIDI-to-MIDI similarity tasks
Full cross-platform compatibility and support

Pre-trained model

midisimx_trained_model_14391_steps_0.255_loss_0.9036_acc.pth - Unified and fast large model for a nuanced embeddings generation. Download checkpoint from Hugging Face

This model was trained on full Discover Piano dataset for 2 complete epochs

Pre-computed embeddings sets

Weighted Mean Pool Embeddings (1-2-1-2)

These embeddings put more emphasis on pitches and chords (weights == 2) with start-times and durations left as is (weights == 1)

discover_midi_dataset_3267574_clean_midis_embeddings_1_2_1_2_weighted_cc_by_nc_sa.npy - 3267574 clean MIDIs weighted embeddings from Discover MIDI Dataset for large scale similarity search and analysis tasks

lakh_midi_dataset_17203_clean_midis_embeddings_1_2_1_2_weighted_cc_by_nc_sa.npy - 17203 LAKH clean_midi subset weighted embeddings tailored primarily for artist/song identification tasks

Source MIDI datasets: Discover MIDI Dataset and LAKH MIDI Dataset

Similarity search output samples

midisimx-similarity-search-output-samples-1-2-1-2-weighted-CC-BY-NC-SA.zip - ~169k MIDIs filtered by weighted midisimx music discovery pipeline

Source MIDI dataset: Discover MIDI Dataset

Installation

midisimx PyPI package (for general use)

!pip install -U midisimx

x-transformers 2.3.1 (for raw/custom tasks)

!pip install x-transformers==2.3.1

Basic use guide

General use example

# ================================================================================================
# Initalize midisimx
# ================================================================================================

# Import main midisimx module
import midisimx

# ================================================================================================
# Prepare midisimx embeddings
# ================================================================================================

# Option 1: Download sample pre-computed embeddings corpus from Hugging Face
emb_path = midisimx.download_embeddings()

# Option 2: use custom pre-computed embeddings corpus
# See custom embeddings generation section of this README for details
# emb_path = './custom_midis_embeddings_corpus.npy'

# Load downloaded embeddings corpus
corpus_midi_names, corpus_emb = midisimx.load_embeddings(emb_path)

# ================================================================================================
# Prepare midisimx model
# ================================================================================================

# Option 1: Download main pre-trained midisimx model from Hugging Face
model_path = midisimx.download_model()

# Option 2: Use main pre-trained midisimx model included in midisimx PyPI package
# model_path = midisimx.get_package_models()[0]['path']

# Load midisimx model
model, ctx, dtype = midisimx.load_model(model_path)

# ================================================================================================
# Prepare source MIDI
# ================================================================================================

# Load source MIDI
input_toks_seqs = midisimx.midi_to_tokens('Come To My Window.mid')

# ================================================================================================
# Calculate and analyze embeddings
# ================================================================================================

# Compute source/query embeddings
query_emb = midisimx.get_embeddings_bf16(model,
                                         input_toks_seqs,
                                         device=torch.device('cuda'),
                                         pooling='weighted_mean',
                                         token_type_weights={(128, 256): 2,
                                                             (384, 718): 2
                                                            },
                                        )

# Calculate cosine similarity between source/query MIDI embeddings and embeddings corpus
idxs, sims = midisimx.cosine_similarity_topk(query_emb, corpus_emb)

# ================================================================================================
# Processs, print and save results
# ================================================================================================

# Convert the results to sorted list with transpose values
idxs_sims_tvs_list = midisimx.idxs_sims_to_sorted_list(idxs, sims)

# Print corpus matches (and optionally) convert the final result to a handy list for further processing
corpus_matches_list = midisimx.print_sorted_idxs_sims_list(idxs_sims_tvs_list, corpus_midi_names, return_as_list=True)

# ================================================================================================
# Copy matched MIDIs from the MIDI corpus for listening and further evaluation and analysis
# ================================================================================================

# Copy matched corpus MIDI to a desired directory for easy evaluation and analysis
out_dir_path = midisimx.copy_corpus_files(corpus_matches_list)

# ================================================================================================

Raw/custom use example

import torch
from x_transformers import TransformerWrapper, Encoder

# Original model hyperparameters
SEQ_LEN = 3072

MASK_IDX     = 718 # Use this value for masked modelling
PAD_IDX      = 719 # Model pad index
VOCAB_SIZE   = 720 # Total vocab size

MASK_PROB    = 0.15 # Original training mask probability value (use for masked modelling)

DEVICE = 'cuda' # You can use any compatible device or CPU
DTYPE  = torch.bfloat16 # Original training dtype

# Official main midisimx model checkpoint name
MODEL_CKPT = 'midisimx_trained_model_14391_steps_0.255_loss_0.9036_acc.pth'

# Model architecture using x-transformers
model = TransformerWrapper(
    num_tokens = VOCAB_SIZE,
    max_seq_len = SEQ_LEN,
    attn_layers = Encoder(
        dim   = 768,
        depth = 16,
        heads = 12,
        rotary_pos_emb = True,
        attn_flash = True,
    ),
)

model.load_state_dict(torch.load(MODEL_CKPT, map_location=DEVICE))

model.to(DEVICE)
model.eval()

# Original training autoxast setup
autocast_ctx = torch.amp.autocast(device_type=DEVICE, dtype=DTYPE)

Creating custom MIDI corpus embeddings

# ================================================================================================

# Load main midisimx module
import midisimx

# Import helper modules
import os
import tqdm

# ================================================================================================

# Call included TMIDIX module through midisimx to create MIDI files list
custom_midi_corpus_file_names = midisimx.TMIDIX.create_files_list(['./custom_midi_corpus_dir/'])

# ================================================================================================

# Create two lists: one with MIDI corpus file names 
# and another with MIDI corpus tokens representations suitable for embeddings generation
midi_corpus_file_names = []
midi_corpus_tokens = []

for midi_file in tqdm.tqdm(custom_midi_corpus_file_names):
    midi_corpus_file_names.append(os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(midi_file))[0])
    
    midi_tokens = midisimx.midi_to_tokens(midi_file, transpose_factor=0, verbose=False)[0]
    midi_corpus_tokens.append(midi_tokens)

# It is highly recommended to sort the resulting corpus by tokens sequence length
# This greatly speeds up embeddings calculations
sorted_midi_corpus = sorted(zip(midi_corpus_file_names, midi_corpus_tokens), key=lambda x: len(x[1]))
midi_corpus_file_names, midi_corpus_tokens = map(list, zip(*sorted_midi_corpus))

# ================================================================================================
# Now you are ready to generate embeddings as follows:
# ================================================================================================

# Load main midisimx model
model, ctx, dtype = midisimx.load_model(verbose=False)

# Generate MIDI corpus embeddings
midi_corpus_embeddings = midisimx.get_embeddings_bf16(model, midi_corpus_tokens, verbose=False)

# ================================================================================================

# Save generated MIDI corpus embeddings and MIDI corpus file names in one handy NumPy file
midisimx.save_embeddings(midi_corpus_file_names,
                        midi_corpus_embeddings,
                        verbose=False
                       )

# ================================================================================================

# You now can use this saved custom MIDI corpus NumPy file with midisimx.load_embeddings()
# and the rest of the pipeline outlined in the general use section above

Music discovery pipeline

Here is a complete MIDI music discovery pipeline example using midisimx and Discover MIDI Dataset

Install midisimx and discovermidi PyPI packages

!pip install -U midisimx

!pip install -U discovermidi

Download and unzip Discover MIDI Dataset

import discovermidi
from discovermidi import fast_parallel_extract

discovermidi.download_dataset()

fast_parallel_extract.fast_parallel_extract()

Prepare midisimx model and desired corresponding embeddings set

model_ckpt = 'midisimx_trained_model_14391_steps_0.255_loss_0.9036_acc.pth'
model_depth = 16

embeddings_file = 'discover_midi_dataset_3267574_clean_midis_embeddings_1_2_1_2_weighted_cc_by_nc_sa.npy'

Create Master MIDI dataset directory and upload your source/master MIDIs in it

import os

os.makedirs('./Master-MIDI-Dataset/', exist_ok=True)

Initialize midisimx, download and load midisimx model and embeddings set

# Import main midisimx module
import midisimx

# Download embeddings from Hugging Face
emb_path = midisimx.download_embeddings(filename=embeddings_file)

# Load downloaded embeddings corpus
corpus_midi_names, corpus_emb = midisimx.load_embeddings(embeddings_path=emb_path)

# Download midisimx model from Hugging Face
model_path = midisimx.download_model(filename=model_ckpt)

# Load midisimx model
model, ctx, dtype = midisimx.load_model(model_path,
                                       depth=model_depth
                                      )

Create Master MIDI dataset files list

filez = midisimx.TMIDIX.create_files_list(['./Master-MIDI-Dataset/'])

Launch the search

import os
import tqdm

for fa in tqdm.tqdm(filez):
    
    # Load source MIDI
    input_toks_seqs = midisimx.midi_to_tokens(fa, verbose=False)

    if input_toks_seqs:
    
        # ================================================================================================
        # Calculate and analyze embeddings
        # ================================================================================================
        
        # Compute source/query embeddings
        query_emb = midisimx.get_embeddings_bf16(model,
                                                input_toks_seqs,

                                                device=torch.device('cuda'),
                                                pooling='weighted_mean',
                                                token_type_weights={(128, 256): 2,
                                                                    (384, 718): 2
                                                                   },
                                                verbose=False,
                                                show_progress_bar=False
                                               )
    
        # Calculate cosine similarity between source/query MIDI embeddings and embeddings corpus
        idxs, sims = midisimx.cosine_similarity_topk(query_emb,
                                                    corpus_emb,
                                                    verbose=False
                                                   )
       
        # ================================================================================================
        # Processs, print and save results
        # ================================================================================================
         
        # Convert the results to sorted list with transpose values
        idxs_sims_tvs_list = midisimx.idxs_sims_to_sorted_list(idxs, sims)
       
        # Print corpus matches (and optionally) convert the final result to a handy list for further processing
        corpus_matches_list = midisimx.print_sorted_idxs_sims_list(idxs_sims_tvs_list,
                                                                  corpus_midi_names,
                                                                  return_as_list=True
                                                                 )
         
        # ================================================================================================
        # Copy matched MIDIs from the MIDI corpus for listening and further evaluation and analysis
        # ================================================================================================
        
        # Copy matched corpus MIDI to a desired directory for easy evaluation and analysis
        out_dir_path = midisimx.copy_corpus_files(corpus_matches_list,
                                                 corpus_midis_dirs=['./Discover-MIDI-Dataset/MIDIs/'],
                                                 main_output_dir='Output-MIDI-Dataset',
                                                 sub_output_dir=os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(fa))[0],
                                                 verbose=False
                                                )
        # ================================================================================================

midisimx functions reference lists

Main functions

midisimx.copy_corpus_files — Copy or synchronize MIDI corpus files from a source directory to a target corpus location.
midisimx.cosine_similarity_topk — Compute cosine similarities between a query embedding and a set of embeddings and return the top‑K matches.
midisimx.download_all_embeddings — Download an entire embeddings dataset snapshot from a Hugging Face dataset repository to a local directory.
midisimx.download_embeddings — Download a single precomputed embeddings .npy file from a Hugging Face dataset repository.
midisimx.download_model — Download a pre-trained model checkpoint file from a Hugging Face model repository to a local directory.
midisimx.get_embeddings_bf16 — Load or convert embeddings into bfloat16 format for memory-efficient inference on supported hardware.
midisimx.idxs_sims_to_sorted_list — Convert parallel index and similarity arrays into a single sorted list of (index, similarity) pairs ordered by similarity.
midisimx.load_embeddings — Load a saved NumPy embeddings file and return the arrays of MIDI names and corresponding embedding vectors.
midisimx.load_model — Construct a Transformer model, load weights from a checkpoint, move it to the requested device, and return the model with an AMP autocast context and dtype.
midisimx.masked_mean_pool — Compute a masked mean pooling over sequence embeddings, ignoring padded positions via a boolean or numeric mask.
midisimx.midi_to_tokens — Convert a single-track MIDI file into one or more compact integer token sequences (with optional transpositions) suitable for model input.
midisimx.pad_and_mask — Pad a batch of variable-length token sequences to a common length and produce an attention/mask tensor indicating real tokens vs padding.
midisimx.print_sorted_idxs_sims_list — Pretty-print a sorted list of (index, similarity) pairs, optionally annotating entries with filenames or metadata.
midisimx.save_embeddings — Save a list of name strings and their corresponding embedding vectors into a structured NumPy array and optionally persist it to disk.

Helper functions

midisimx.helpers.get_package_models — Return a sorted list of packaged model files and their paths.
midisimx.helpers.get_package_embeddings — Return a sorted list of packaged embedding files and their paths.
midisimx.helpers.get_normalized_midi_md5_hash — Compute original and normalized MD5 hashes for a MIDI file.
midisimx.helpers.normalize_midi_file — Normalize a MIDI file and write the result to disk.
midisimx.helpers.install_apt_package — Idempotently install an apt package with retries and optional python‑apt.

Limitations

Current code and models support only MIDI music elements similarity (start-times, durations, pitches and chords)
MIDI channels, instruments, velocities and drum similarites are not currently supported due to complexity and practicality considerations
Current model is limited by 3k sequence length (~1000 MIDI music notes) so long running MIDIs can only be analyzed in chunks
Solo drum track MIDIs are not currently supported and can't be analyzed

Citations

@misc{project_los_angeles_2026,
    author       = { Project Los Angeles and Tegridy Code },
    title        = { midisimx (Revision cfed861) },
    year         = 2026,
    url          = { https://huggingface.co/projectlosangeles/midisimx },
    doi          = { 10.57967/hf/10032 },
    publisher    = { Hugging Face }
}

@misc{project_los_angeles_2026,
    author       = { Project Los Angeles and Tegridy Code },
    title        = { midisimx-embeddings (Revision 0b13837) },
    year         = 2026,
    url          = { https://huggingface.co/datasets/projectlosangeles/midisimx-embeddings },
    doi          = { 10.57967/hf/10031 },
    publisher    = { Hugging Face }
}

@misc{project_los_angeles_2026,
    author       = { Project Los Angeles and Tegridy Code },
    title        = { midisimx-samples (Revision 1bbf7ef) },
    year         = 2026,
    url          = { https://huggingface.co/datasets/projectlosangeles/midisimx-samples },
    doi          = { 10.57967/hf/10030 },
    publisher    = { Hugging Face }
}

@misc{project_los_angeles_2025,
    author       = { Project Los Angeles },
    title        = { Discover-MIDI-Dataset (Revision 0eaecb5) },
    year         = 2025,
    url          = { https://huggingface.co/datasets/projectlosangeles/Discover-MIDI-Dataset },
    doi          = { 10.57967/hf/7361 },
    publisher    = { Hugging Face }
}

@phdthesis{raffel2016learning,
  author       = { Colin Raffel },
  title        = { Learning-Based Methods for Comparing Sequences, with Applications to Audio-to-{MIDI} Alignment and Matching },
  school       = { Columbia University },
  year         = { 2016 },
  url          = { https://colinraffel.com/projects/lmd/ }
}

Project Los Angeles

Tegridy Code 2026

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