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larger_clap_music

Available as managed deployment Embeddings laion Embeddings 1 variants 32k dl/mo

larger_clap_music is an open-weight embedding model from laion. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Released bylaion
TypeEmbedding models
TaskEmbeddings
Runs withtransformers
Released2023-10-30
Popularity32k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What larger_clap_music is

TL;DR

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

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.

Read the full model card

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_music")
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_music")
processor = ClapProcessor.from_pretrained("laion/larger_clap_music")

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_music").to(0)
processor = ClapProcessor.from_pretrained("laion/larger_clap_music")

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}
}

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys larger-clap-music for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (larger-clap-music below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"larger-clap-music","input":"text to embed"}'

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