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larger clap general

by laion

Open source · 418k downloads · 48 likes

2.1
(48 reviews)EmbeddingAPI & Local
About

The "larger clap general" model is an enhanced version of CLAP, a neural network designed to understand and connect natural language with audio, music, and speech. Inspired by CLIP’s approach for images, it can predict relevant textual descriptions from an audio clip without specific training for this task. Using an architecture that combines a SWIN Transformer for audio feature extraction and RoBERTa for text, it projects both modalities into a shared latent space, enabling comparison through similarity. Its key capabilities include zero-shot audio classification (without prior training on specific data) and the extraction of audio or text embeddings for search or analysis tasks. This model stands out for its versatility, covering a wide range of applications from identifying environmental sounds to musical or vocal analysis, while offering remarkable flexibility for diverse uses.

Documentation

Model

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

Python
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:

Python
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:

Python
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:

INI
@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}
}
Capabilities & Tags
transformerspytorchclapfeature-extractionendpoints_compatible
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Specifications
CategoryEmbedding
AccessAPI & Local
LicenseOpen Source
PricingOpen Source
Rating
2.1

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