README.md

Audio representation learning with JEPAs

This repository contains the PyTorch code associated to the paper Investigating Design Choices in Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures for General Audio Representation Learning, presented at the SASB workshop at ICASSP 2024.

Usage

• Clone the repository and install the requirements using the provided requirements.txt or environment.yml.

• Then, preprocess your dataset to convert audios into mel-spectrograms:

  python wav_to_lms.py /your/local/audioset /your/local/audioset_lms

• Write the list of files to use as training data in a csv file

  cd data
  echo file_name > files_audioset.csv
  find /your/local/audioset_lms -name "*.npy" >> files_audioset.csv

• You can now start training! We rely on Dora for experiment scheduling. For start an experiment locally, just type:

  dora run

  Under the hood, Hydra is used for handle configurations, so you can override configurations via CLI or build your own YAML config files. For example, type:

  dora run data=my_dataset model.encoder.embed_dim=1024

  to train our model with a larger encoder on your custom dataset.

  Moreover, you can seamlessly launch SLURM jobs on a cluster thanks to Dora:

  dora launch -p partition-a100 -g 4 data=my_dataset

  We refer to the respective documentations of Hydra and Dora for more advanced usage.

Performances

Our model is evaluated on 8 various downstream tasks, including environmental, speech and music classification ones. Please refer to our paper for additional details.

Checkpoints

Will be available soon...

Credits

• This great Lightning+Hydra template
• EVAR for evaluating our representations