@inproceedings{kumar-etal-2026-far, title = "How Far Can Pretrained {LLM}s Go in Symbolic Music? Controlled Comparisons of Supervised and Preference-based Adaptation", author = "Kumar, Deepak and Karystinaios, Emmanouil and Widmer, Gerhard and Schedl, Markus", editor = "Epure, Elena V. and Oramas, Sergio and Doh, SeungHeon and Ramoneda, Pedro and Kruspe, Anna and Sordo, Mohamed", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on {NLP} for Music and Audio ({NLP}4{M}us{A} 2026)", month = mar, year = "2026", address = "Rabat, Morocco", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlp4musa-1.5/", pages = "27--32", ISBN = "979-8-89176-369-2" }