Please enumerate one or more principles of engineering, science and mathematics that your team used to develop the the design solution for your project.
What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready?
The most significant risk of this project is the generative music model. If the model doesn’t generate pleasant music that would significantly affect the user experience. To mitigate these risks the first approach to building the model will closely follow the research paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04281. After we have a baseline performance with this model we will modify and optimize the performance.
Were any changes made to the existing design of the system (requirements, block diagram, system spec, etc)? Why was this change necessary, what costs does the change incur, and how will these costs be mitigated going forward?
We decided to use a transformer based architecture instead of a GAN based architecture, as this would allow more user influence over the music generated. At this stage it did not incure significant costs
Provide an updated schedule if changes have occurred.
This is also the place to put some photos of your progress or to brag about a component you got working.