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larger_clap_general

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larger_clap_general is an open-weight embedding model from laion. larger_clap_general (BF16) weighs 776 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • larger_clap_general is a feature-extraction model developed by laion for zero-shot audio classification and embedding extraction.
  • It uses a SWINTransformer for audio features and a RoBERTa model for text features, trained on general audio, music, and speech.
  • The model is available under the apache-2.0 licence.

Summary of the laion/larger_clap_general model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released bylaion
Released2023-10-30
VRAM776 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for larger_clap_general (BF16)

776 MBweights, file size
1.1 GBruntime overhead
CardRunsMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

From the model card

What laion says about larger_clap_general

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TL;DR

CLAP is to audio what CLIP is to image. This is an improved CLAP checkpoint, specifically trained on general audio, music and speech.

Description

CLAP (Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining) is a neural network trained on a variety of (audio, text) pairs. It can be instructed in to predict the most relevant text snippet, given an audio, without directly optimizing for the task. The CLAP model uses a SWINTransformer to get audio features from a log-Mel spectrogram input, and a RoBERTa model to get text features. Both the text and audio features are then projected to a latent space with identical dimension. The dot product between the projected audio and text features is then used as a similar score.

Usage

You can use this model for zero shot audio classification or extracting audio and/or textual features.

Uses

Perform zero-shot audio classification

Using pipeline

from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import pipeline

dataset = load_dataset("ashraq/esc50")
audio = dataset["train"]["audio"][-1]["array"]

audio_classifier = pipeline(task="zero-shot-audio-classification", model="laion/larger_clap_general")
output = audio_classifier(audio, candidate_labels=["Sound of a dog", "Sound of vaccum cleaner"])
print(output)
>>> [{"score": 0.999, "label": "Sound of a dog"}, {"score": 0.001, "label": "Sound of vaccum cleaner"}]

Run the model:

You can also get the audio and text embeddings using ClapModel

Run the model on CPU:

from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import ClapModel, ClapProcessor

librispeech_dummy = load_dataset("hf-internal-testing/librispeech_asr_dummy", "clean", split="validation")
audio_sample = librispeech_dummy[0]

model = ClapModel.from_pretrained("laion/larger_clap_general")
processor = ClapProcessor.from_pretrained("laion/larger_clap_general")

inputs = processor(audios=audio_sample["audio"]["array"], return_tensors="pt")
audio_embed = model.get_audio_features(**inputs)

Run the model on GPU:

from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import ClapModel, ClapProcessor

librispeech_dummy = load_dataset("hf-internal-testing/librispeech_asr_dummy", "clean", split="validation")
audio_sample = librispeech_dummy[0]

model = ClapModel.from_pretrained("laion/larger_clap_general").to(0)
processor = ClapProcessor.from_pretrained("laion/larger_clap_general")

inputs = processor(audios=audio_sample["audio"]["array"], return_tensors="pt").to(0)
audio_embed = model.get_audio_features(**inputs)

Citation

If you are using this model for your work, please consider citing the original paper:

@misc{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2211.06687,
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2211.06687},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06687},
  author = {Wu, Yusong and Chen, Ke and Zhang, Tianyu and Hui, Yuchen and Berg-Kirkpatrick, Taylor and Dubnov, Shlomo},
  keywords = {Sound (cs.SD), Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering},
  title = {Large-scale Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining with Feature Fusion and Keyword-to-Caption Augmentation},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  year = {2022},
  copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International}
}

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