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riffusion-model

Available as managed deployment Audio riffusion · community Music / audio 1 variants 871 dl/mo

riffusion-model is an open-weight audio or speech model from riffusion. 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

Makerriffusion
TypeAudio & music
TaskMusic / audio
Runs withdiffusers
Released2022-12-13
Popularity871 downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What riffusion-model is

Riffusion is an app for real-time music generation with stable diffusion.

Read about it at https://www.riffusion.com/about and try it at https://www.riffusion.com/.

  • Code: https://github.com/riffusion/riffusion
  • Web app: https://github.com/hmartiro/riffusion-app
  • Model checkpoint: https://huggingface.co/riffusion/riffusion-model-v1
  • Discord: https://discord.gg/yu6SRwvX4v

This repository contains the model files, including:

  • a diffusers formated library
  • a compiled checkpoint file
  • a traced unet for improved inference speed
  • a seed image library for use with riffusion-app

Riffusion v1 Model

Riffusion is a latent text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating spectrogram images given any text input. These spectrograms can be converted into audio clips.

The model was created by Seth Forsgren and Hayk Martiros as a hobby project.

You can use the Riffusion model directly, or try the Riffusion web app.

The Riffusion model was created by fine-tuning the Stable-Diffusion-v1-5 checkpoint. Read about Stable Diffusion here 🤗's Stable Diffusion blog.

Model Details

Direct Use

The model is intended for research purposes only. Possible research areas and tasks include

  • Generation of artworks, audio, and use in creative processes.
  • Applications in educational or creative tools.
  • Research on generative models.

Datasets

The original Stable Diffusion v1.5 was trained on the LAION-5B dataset using the CLIP text encoder, which provided an amazing starting point with an in-depth understanding of language, including musical concepts. The team at LAION also compiled a fantastic audio dataset from many general, speech, and music sources that we recommend at LAION-AI/audio-dataset.

Fine Tuning

Check out the diffusers training examples from Hugging Face. Fine tuning requires a dataset of spectrogram images of short audio clips, with associated text describing them. Note that the CLIP encoder is able to understand and connect many words even if they never appear in the dataset. It is also possible to use a dreambooth method to get custom styles.

Citation

If you build on this work, please cite it as follows:

@article{Forsgren_Martiros_2022,
  author = {Forsgren, Seth* and Martiros, Hayk*},
  title = {{Riffusion - Stable diffusion for real-time music generation}},
  url = {https://riffusion.com/about},
  year = {2022}
}

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

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -F model="riffusion-model" -F file=@audio.mp3

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 5M tokens/month currently included with every new account at launch.

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