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

Will be available soon...
Update: I accidentally deleted my logs and no longer work on this topic. Anyway, if you are looking for a powerful audio encoder, use MATPAC instead.
185 followers · starred May 2026
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.
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.
Our model is evaluated on 8 various downstream tasks, including environmental, speech and music classification ones. Please refer to our paper for additional details.

Will be available soon...
Update: I accidentally deleted my logs and no longer work on this topic. Anyway, if you are looking for a powerful audio encoder, use MATPAC instead.
185 followers · starred May 2026