Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device
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TL;DR: I trained a 125M-parameter transformer to autocomplete piano performances in real time (~108 notes/sec on an iPhone 15). The biggest improvements came from finding the right MIDI representation, cleaning the training data aggressively, and adding DPO post-training.
Almost a year ago, I started tinkering with an idea: connect my MIDI piano to my phone, play something, and have AI autocomplete the song for me. Think GitHub Copilot, but for piano.
It turned out to be a deeper rabbit hole than I expected. Fourteen experiments later, it is finally at a point where I am happy enough with it to write about.
The app, RollTab, is available for free here if you have a MIDI keyboard and an iPhone/iPad. 1
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