Zhifeng Kong, Arushi Goel, Rohan Badlani, Wei Ping, Rafael Valle, Bryan Catanzaro

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This repo contains the PyTorch implementation of Audio Flamingo: A Novel Audio Language Model with Few-Shot Learning and Dialogue Abilities (ICML 2024). Audio Flamingo is a novel audio-understanding language model with

• strong audio understanding abilities,
• the ability to quickly adapt to unseen tasks via in-context learning and retrieval, and
• strong multi-turn dialogue abilities.

We introduce a series of training techniques, architecture design, and data strategies to enhance our model with these abilities. Extensive evaluations across various audio understanding tasks confirm the efficacy of our method, setting new state-of-the-art benchmarks.

• The folder foundation/ contains training code for the foundation model.
• The folder chat/ contains training code for the chat model, which can perform multi-turn dialogues.
• The folder inference/ contains inference code for both the foundation and chat models.

Within each folder, the structure is highly based on the Open Flamingo repo (commit a05dcba). Each folder is self-contained and we expect no cross dependencies between these folders.

• Download source code of Laion-CLAP from their official repo. Rename the folder to my_laion_clap/ and copy the folder to under each of foundation/, chat/, inference/. Download their pretrained checkpoints to YOUR_DATA_ROOT_DIR/audio-flamingo-data/laion-clap-pretrained/laion_clap/.
• Download source code of Microsoft-CLAP from their official repo. Rename the folder to my_ms_clap/ and copy the folder to under each of foundation/, chat/, inference/. In each of these, replace the my_ms_clap/msclap/CLAPWrapper.py with clap_modified_code/CLAPWrapper.py, which adds some processing functions and removes some bugs for clapcap. Download their pretrained checkpoints to YOUR_DATA_ROOT_DIR/audio-flamingo-data/clap/.
• Download raw training and evaluation datasets from their original sources. Refer to foundation/data/README.md and chat/data/README.md for specific instructions to prepare data.

We refer to foundation/README.md, chat/README.md, and inference/README.md for the specific instructions for training the foundation model, training the chat model, and inferencing, as they require different setups. We used 8 A100 GPUs to train our models.

• The folder checkpoints/ contains foundation and chat model checkpoints.
• Each model is about 17GB. Due to git lfs constraints we split each model into 5 parts. After downloading, go to checkpoints/ and python checkpoint_utils.py to merge the parts.
• Alternatively, the model checkpoints are also on HuggingFace (which is easier to download): https://huggingface.co/nvidia/audio-flamingo. One can either git clone this project or use the huggingface_hub.hf_hub_download function to download: checkpoint_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id="nvidia/audio-flamingo", filename="foundation(or chat).pt").
• If you would like to run inference with these checkpoints, remember to modify the absolute paths in inference/configs/*.yaml and inference/inference_examples.py to properly load model checkpoints and data (see inference/README.md).
• The foundation model is pretrained with foundation/configs/foundation_pretrain.yaml and then finetuned with foundation/configs/foundation_sft_8_shot.yaml.
• The chat model is pretrained with foundation/configs/foundation_pretrain.yaml, then finetuned with foundation/configs/foundation_sft_4_shot.yaml, and finally finetuned with chat/configs/chat.yaml.

• We use Audio Flamingo as a data labeling machine for synthetic captions. See labeling_machine/ for details of the synthetic dataset and license descriptions.

The main training and inferencing code within each folder (foundation/, chat/, inference/), including train/, src/, data/, and configs/, are modified from Open Flamingo (commit a05dcba) (MIT license), which borrows from flamingo-pytorch (MIT license), flamingo-mini (MIT license), and open_clip (MIT license). src/helpers.py also includes self-attention implementations based on attention-is-all-you-need-pytorch (MIT license), which borrows from OpenNMT-py (MIT license). Our code also relies on LAION-AI/CLAP (CC0-1.0 license) and microsoft/CLAP (MIT license). In chat/data/prepare_each_dataset.py, the filtering keywords are based on the LLARK paper (CC-BY-4.0 license) and the LTU paper (CC-BY-4.0 license).

• The code in this repo is under MIT license (see LICENSE).
• The checkpoints in this repo (checkpoints/*.pt) are for non-commercial use only. They are subject to the OPT-IML license, the Terms of Use of the data generated by OpenAI, and the original licenses accompanying each training dataset.

@article{kong2024audio,
  title={Audio Flamingo: A Novel Audio Language Model with Few-Shot Learning and Dialogue Abilities},
  author={Kong, Zhifeng and Goel, Arushi and Badlani, Rohan and Ping, Wei and Valle, Rafael and Catanzaro, Bryan},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.01831},
  year={2024}
}