license: cc-by-nc-4.0
base_model:
- m-a-p/YuE2-3B
- m-a-p/MERT-v2-FullSong
tags:
- audio
- music
- yue2
- tokenizer
- lora
yue2-mothersuperior-realaudio-tokenizer-v4
Real-audio tooling for YuE2-3B: the audio β semantic-token encoder YuE2 doesn't ship, plus a NAR-branch LoRA so the decoder renders real-production latents. Together they let you tokenize your own recordings, LoRA-tune YuE2's AR on an artist, and generate new songs or covers.
Files
| file | what |
|---|---|
tokenizer_head_joint_v4.pt |
MERT-v2-FullSong layer-20 features (per-track instance-normalised, 25 Hz) β 32,768 YuE2 semantic codes. 8-layer transformer, d=512, 512-frame windows. Held-out exact match on YuE2's own songs: 16.1% top-1 (near-miss codes render almost identically; ear tests of NAR round-trips sit around 95%). |
nar_lora_joint_v4.pt |
rank-32 LoRA on nar_self_attn.{q,k,v,o}_proj + nar_mlp.{gate,up,down}_proj (28 layers) + full vae2llm/llm2vae. Trained jointly with the head on real audio. |
scripts/ |
the training loop and inference scripts (below). |
Trained on 4,765 YuE2 self-generated songs, then adapted to real audio. If your material sounds off, rerun joint.py on your own audio (step 3 below).
Requirements
Python 3.12 venv with yue2-infer (commit 92a73cc7), torch 2.10 + cu128, torchaudio 2.10,
transformers, soundfile, scipy, safetensors, demucs; HF_HOME with m-a-p/YuE2-3B, m-a-p/YuE2-Vae, m-a-p/MERT-v2-FullSong.
A 24 GB GPU is enough for every stage (14β18 GB measured with gradient checkpointing).
You also need the minted regularizer pack: regularizer/minted_regularizer_pack.pt from
Mothersuperior/yue2-minted-corpus (~100 MB, 4,732 YuE2-generated songs as
{name, src, style, lyrics, codec}). The AR trainer draws 50% of its songs from it so a small artist set cannot collapse YuE2's token grammar; the
minted_val items are the held-out check whose loss should stay flat. The full corpus (audio + tokens + latents) is in the same dataset if you
want to retrain the head.
Paths are hard-coded to our pod layout (/workspace/tok/full, /workspace/real/..., /workspace/yue2-corpus/tracks, /workspace/real/ar/dataset.pt).
Recreate that layout or edit the constants at the top of each script.
Train an artist LoRA (folder of songs β LoRA)
Per song you need <name>.flac, <name>.lyrics.txt (full lyrics with [verse]/[chorus]/[bridge]/... tags β truncated lyrics ruin structure),
and <name>.txt = a style caption starting with your trigger phrase (e.g. xyzq, in the style of xyzq. <description of the sound>).
python prep_real.pyβ MERT features, VAE latents and the prompt prefix per song.python cursor_prep.pyβ Demucs vocal stem β MMS forced alignment of the lyrics β lyric-cursor targets (automatic).- (optional, recommended for a new artist/era)
HOLD_TRACK=<one song name> python joint.py joint_mine 3000 1 1 tokenizer_head_joint_v4.pt nar_lora_joint_v4.ptβ adapts head + NAR to your audio. Otherwise use the v3 files as-is. python ar_prep.py <head.pt>β tokenizes your songs and merges the regularizer pack intodataset.pt(ar_prep.pyexpects the pack's records; point it at the downloaded file).SCHED_STEPS=3000 CK_FROM=600 CK_EVERY=200 python ar_lora_cursor.py my_lora 1600 64 0.5 none 1e-4 0.08β rank-64 AR LoRA, 50/50 artist vs minted, lyric-cursor weight 0.08, checkpoints at 600/800/1000/1200/1400/1600. Do not train longer: past ~1,500 steps the model memorises the songs.LADDER_STYLE_TRACK=<song> LADDER_LYRICS=<lyrics.txt> bash ladder.sh my_lora nar_lora_joint_v4.ptβ renders one fixed prompt from every checkpoint (optionalFINALS=<file>with linestag style_track lyrics seed). Pick by ear (ours: step 800).
Decoder
Consider decoding with Mothersuperior/YuE2-Vae-merge-0.666: a weight merge of
YuE2-Vae (0.666) and YuE2-Vae-legacy (0.334). The two releases share one encoder and only differ in the decoder; the merge sits between the clean
default decoder and the more musical legacy decoder. Drop-in: YuE2Pipeline.from_pretrained("m-a-p/YuE2-3B", vae="Mothersuperior/YuE2-Vae-merge-0.666"),
or point ar_generate.py at it.
Inference
# new song: style caption with your trigger + lyrics, score-free
python ar_generate.py my_lora/step-800.pt nar_lora_joint_v4.pt out_tag <style_track> lyrics.txt 12
# cover: transcribe any recording with SheetSage2 (--melody-only), then
ABC_FILE=score.abc COT=melody STRIP_TEMPO_KEY=1 python ar_generate.py my_lora/step-800.pt nar_lora_joint_v4.pt cover_tag <style_track> lyrics.txt 21
# LoRA strength: AR_SCALE=0.77 ... stock model control: pass `none` for either LoRA
ar_generate.py folds both LoRAs into the base weights and runs YuE2's own pipeline, so the stock sampler, CFG and VAE apply unchanged.
Other scripts
extract_full.py + train_v2.py (retrain the head on the minted corpus), nar_lora.py (NAR LoRA alone), teacher_train.py (head fine-tune with the NAR as
teacher), ar_lora.py (AR LoRA without the cursor), build_reg_pack.py (rebuild the regularizer pack from a corpus).
Weights derive from YuE2-3B (CC BY-NC 4.0): non-commercial use only. Scripts are provided as-is.