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RECERCAT author Ramoneda, Pedro author Eremenko, Vsevolod author D’Hooge, Alexandre author Parada-Cabaleiro, Emilia author Serra, Xavier 2025-05-29T01:36:07Z 2025-05-29T01:36:07Z 2025-05-28T06:07:07Z2025-05-28T06:07:07Z2024 http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70542 Estimating music piece difficulty is important for organizing educational music collections. This process could be partially automatized to facilitate the educator’s role. Nevertheless, the decisions performed by prevalent deeplearning models are hardly understandable, which may impair the acceptance of such a technology in music education curricula. Our work employs explainable descriptors for difficulty estimation in symbolic music representations. Furthermore, through a novel parameter-efficient white-box model, we outperform previous efforts while delivering interpretable results. These comprehensible outcomes emulate the functionality of a rubric, a tool widely used in music education. Our approach, evaluated in piano repertoire categorized in 9 classes, achieved 41.4% accuracy independently, with a mean squared error (MSE) of 1.7, showing precise difficulty estimation. Through our baseline, we illustrate how building on top of past research can offer alternatives for music difficulty assessment which are explainable and interpretable. With this, we aim to promote a more effective communication between the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) community and the music education one. © P. Ramoneda, V. Eremenko, A. D’Hooge, E. Parada-Cabaleiro, X. Serra. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Attribution: P. Ramoneda, V. Eremenko, A. D’Hooge, E. Parada-Cabaleiro, X. Serra, “Towards Explainable and Interpretable Musical Difficulty Estimation: A parameterefficient approach”, in Proc. of the 25th Int. Society for Music Information Retrieval Conf., San Francisco, USA, 2024. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Musical difficulty estimation Towards explainable and interpretable musical difficulty estimation: a parameter-efficient approach info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion