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Updated 2026 · 05
01 · Profile

Daniel Dratschuk.

Dual-degree student in mathematics and computer science researching AI systems, optical music recognition, and tools that accelerate human learning.

02 / Publications

Current research

Under review · NeurIPS 2026
arXiv · 2026

Transcoda — End-to-end zero-shot optical music recognition via data-centric synthetic training.

An optical music recognition system built around synthetic data generation, normalized Humdrum **kern output, and grammar-based decoding for syntactically valid transcriptions.

A compact 59M-parameter model trained in six hours on a single GPU, outperforming billion-parameter baselines on synthetic and historical scan benchmarks.

03 / Engineering

Selected open-source (Rust & C)

04 / Education

Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf

B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mathematics

Grade 1.1 (German scale) · 2020 — 2025
ThesisReinforcement Learning

B.Sc. in Computer Science

Grade 1.1 (German scale) · 2020 — 2026
ThesisOptical Music Recognition (→ Transcoda)
05 / Languages

Reading, writing, speaking

German
Native
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English
Fluent
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Japanese
Fluent
JLPT N1 · self-taught
Russian
Advanced
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06 / Music

Piano

07 / Writing

Recent notes

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