Ábel Ilyés- Kun

Hi, I am Ábel, a computer science graduate from RWTH Aachen University. I research human-AI interaction for music that preserves human agency. My vision is to build interactive systems that democratize instrument learning, help musicians overcome learning plateaus, and explore new musical styles. Beyond my studies, I like to play the piano and transcribe jazz recordings.

news

Jun 01, 2026	I participated at the first Hackatune at TUM.
Nov 01, 2025	I will begin my master’s thesis on real-time human-AI cooperative improvisation at the Chair for Artificial Intelligence Methodology (AIM) at RWTH Aachen.
Sep 01, 2025	My co-authored paper “Generating Piano Music with Transformers: A Comparative Study of Scale, Data and Metrics” was accepted at the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on AI for Music!
Sep 01, 2024	I started my exchange semester at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and received the DUO-Korea scholarship.

selected publications

Generating Piano Music with Transformers: A Comparative Study of Scale, Data and Metrics

Jonathan Lehmkuhl, Ábel Ilyés-Kun, Nico Bremes, Cemhan Kaan Özaltan, Frederik Muthers, and Jiayi Yuan

NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on AI for Music, 2025

Bib HTML

@article{ilyeskun2025generating,
  title = {Generating Piano Music with Transformers: A Comparative Study of Scale, Data and Metrics},
  author = {Lehmkuhl, Jonathan and Ilyés-Kun, Ábel and Bremes, Nico and Özaltan, Cemhan Kaan and Muthers, Frederik and Yuan, Jiayi},
  journal = {<a href="https://aiformusicworkshop.github.io/neurips2025/" target="_blank">NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on AI for Music</a>},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07268},
}