Xianan Hu's Outputs (2)

Do academically selective school systems strengthen the link between students’ family backgrounds and the likelihood of higher education participation? (2024)
Journal Article
Lu, B., Dai, B., See, B. H., Shao, X., & Hu, X. (online). Do academically selective school systems strengthen the link between students’ family backgrounds and the likelihood of higher education participation?. Educational Review, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2024.2302117

Proponents of academic selection argue that academic selection helps children from disadvantaged backgrounds have better lifelong outcomes. However, the evidence needs to be clarified since selections by performance could be a proxy for selection by... Read More about Do academically selective school systems strengthen the link between students’ family backgrounds and the likelihood of higher education participation?.

Automatic stylistic composition of Bach chorales with deep LSTM (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liang, F., Gotham, M., Johnson, M., & Shotton, J. (2017, October). Automatic stylistic composition of Bach chorales with deep LSTM. Presented at ISMIR 2017: 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Suzhou

This paper presents "BachBot": an end-to-end automatic composition system for composing and completing music in the style of Bach's chorales using a deep long short-term memory (LSTM) generative model. We propose a new sequential encoding scheme for... Read More about Automatic stylistic composition of Bach chorales with deep LSTM.