LEGATO 2: Toward Multimodal Sheet Music Recognition and Understanding
NeurIPS · 2026 (* equal contribution)
Guang Yang
PhD Student · University of Washington
I'm a PhD student at the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, where I'm fortunate to be advised by Prof. Noah A. Smith. My research focuses on multimodal learning and evaluation. I’m also interested in interaction models and computer-use agents (CUA). Before joining UW, I studied in the Yao Class at Tsinghua University, where I worked under the guidance of Zhilin Yang and Zhiyuan Liu.
Not this Guang Yang?
I can’t take credit for all the great work by Guang Yang. You might be looking for:
- Guang Yang (杨光) — We both studied in Tsinghua's Yao Class (2006–2010 for him, 2019–2023 for me). He works on cryptography and blockchain; I work on multimodal learning.
- Stanley Yang / Guang Yang (杨光) — We share a connection to UW CSE. He studied there as an undergraduate (2022–2026) and has worked at Amazon; I joined the PhD program in 2023.
- Guang Yang (杨珖) — We both competed in informatics olympiads (OI) and studied in Tsinghua's Yao Class (2022– for him, 2019–2023 for me). Our names sound the same in Chinese, but his given name is written 珖, while mine is 光.
News
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Our new preprints, HERA and Rubric-Based Optimization for Text-to-Music Generation, are now on arXiv.
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LEGATO is cited in OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra announcement! 🎉
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Our new preprint, A Dual Evaluation for Music Transcription, is now on arXiv.
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Our new preprint, LEGATO 2: Toward Multimodal Sheet Music Recognition and Understanding, is now on arXiv.
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I joined Microsoft for a summer internship!
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Our new preprint, Rubato: Transcribing Piano Music with Timestamps, is now on arXiv.
Publication
LEGATO: Large-scale End-to-end Generalizable Approach to Typeset OMR
ICLR · 2026
HERA: Harness-Environment Co-Evolution for Reliable Agentic Abstention
arXiv preprint · 2026 (* equal contribution)
BoNVoyage: Learning Better Rewards without Ranking
COLM 2026 Workshop · Sci-FM
Rubric-Based Optimization for Text-to-Music Generation
arXiv preprint · 2026 (* equal contribution)
MMMG: A Comprehensive and Reliable Benchmark for Multitask Multimodal Generation
COLM · 2026 (* equal contribution)
Rubato: Transcribing Piano Music with Timestamps
NeurIPS · 2026 · Spotlight
A Dual Evaluation for Music Transcription
arXiv preprint · 2026
Toward a More Complete OMR Solution
ISMIR · 2024
Video Event Extraction via Tracking Visual States of Arguments
AAAI · 2023
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large-scale pre-trained language models
Nature Machine Intelligence · 2023 · Cover Article (* equal contribution)