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#31
For future ML developers: A post like this should include system requirements.

It's not clear from the blog post, the git page, and most other places if this will run on, even in big-O:

* CPU

* 16GB GPU

* 240GB server (of the type most business can afford)

* Meta/Google/Open AI/Anthropic-style data center

Re: Meta Segment Anything Model Audio

#32
post #9

I hope we keep making progress in isolating tracks in music. I love listening to stems of my favorite songs, I find all sorts of neat parts I missed out on. Listening to isolated harmonies is cool too.

The problem of track isolation is sometimes underconstrained, and so any AI system that does this will probably invent "neat parts" for us to hear that weren't necessarily in the original recording. It feels like using super-resolution models to notice details about your great-grandma's wedding dress.

Re: Meta Segment Anything Model Audio

#34
post #31

For future ML developers: A post like this should include system requirements. It's not clear from the blog post, the git page, and most other places if this will run on, even in big-O: * CPU * 16GB GPU * 240GB server (of the type most business can afford) * Meta/Google/Open AI/Anthropic-style data center

Indeed. I've tried to run it locally this but couldn't get it running on my measly gaming-spec workstation.

It's seems you need lot's of ram and vram. Reading the issues on github[1], it does not seem many others have had success in using this effectively:

- someone with a 96 Gb VRAM RTX 6000 Pro had cuda oom issues

- someone somehow made it work on a RTX 4090 somehow, but RTF processing time was 12...

- someone with a RTX 5090 managed to use it, but with clips no longer than 20s

It seems utility of the model for hobbyist with consumer grade cards will be low.

[1]: https://github.com/facebookresearch/sam-audio/issues/24

Re: Meta Segment Anything Model Audio

#35
post #31

For future ML developers: A post like this should include system requirements. It's not clear from the blog post, the git page, and most other places if this will run on, even in big-O: * CPU * 16GB GPU * 240GB server (of the type most business can afford) * Meta/Google/Open AI/Anthropic-style data center

It realy depends on your runtime environment, but I agree it would be nice to have some references with commonly used setups.

Re: Meta Segment Anything Model Audio

#36
post #18

I use moises frequently for track separation for learning songs. It does pretty dang well. I was shocked that the score of moises is ranked way worse than just about everything else, including lalal.ai, which I also used before buying moises. Perhaps lalal.ai has gotten better since I last tried it.

Maybe I'm totally misinterpreting, but the chart I'm looking at says "Net Win Rate of SAM Audio vs. SoTA Separation (text prompted)", so perhaps a lower number means that the alternative model is better?

Now that I go back and read it again I agree with you. Presumably "win rate" means what percent of the time did the SAM model (Meta's new one) beat the other tool over some set of examples.

Re: Meta Segment Anything Model Audio

#37
post #9

I hope we keep making progress in isolating tracks in music. I love listening to stems of my favorite songs, I find all sorts of neat parts I missed out on. Listening to isolated harmonies is cool too.

From the papers I've read, the stem separation models all seem to train off what seems like a fairly small dataset that doesn't have great instrument representation.

I wonder if you could assemble a big corpus of individual solo instruments, then permute a cacophonous mix of them. IIRC the main training dataset is comprised of a limited number of real songs. But I think a model trained on real songs might struggle with more "out there" harmonies and mixes.

Re: Meta Segment Anything Model Audio

#39
post #9

I hope we keep making progress in isolating tracks in music. I love listening to stems of my favorite songs, I find all sorts of neat parts I missed out on. Listening to isolated harmonies is cool too.

From the papers I've read, the stem separation models all seem to train off what seems like a fairly small dataset that doesn't have great instrument representation. I wonder if you could assemble a big corpus of individual solo instruments, then permute a cacophonous mix of them. IIRC the main training dataset is comprised of a limited number of real songs. But I think a model trained on real songs might struggle wi…

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Re: Meta Segment Anything Model Audio

#40
post #31

For future ML developers: A post like this should include system requirements. It's not clear from the blog post, the git page, and most other places if this will run on, even in big-O: * CPU * 16GB GPU * 240GB server (of the type most business can afford) * Meta/Google/Open AI/Anthropic-style data center

It realy depends on your runtime environment, but I agree it would be nice to have some references with commonly used setups.

It does, but my comment was "even in big-O."

Environments might mean the difference between e.g. 16GB and 24GB, but not 16GB and 160GB.

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