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Request: release the audio tokenizer encoder (audio → RVQ tokens) to enable fine-tuning #3

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@ryanmiyakawa

Thank you for the open-weights release — the quality and the architecture write-up are both impressive.

The release currently ships only the decode-side components: the Global/Local LLMs, RVQ depth decoder, flow-matching module, Flow-VAE/vocoder (and dav.pth, which does include its codec encoder). However, the 8-layer RVQ music tokenizer's encoder — the component that maps a waveform to the semantic (layer-1) and acoustic (layers 2–8) token sequences — does not appear to be included.

Without it, fine-tuning the Global LLM is not possible, because there is no way to produce target semantic-token sequences from one's own audio data. Our use case is research on melody/harmony-conditioned generation: fine-tuning the Global LLM on paired symbolic+audio data while keeping the entire synthesis stack frozen.

Questions:

  1. Are there plans to release the tokenizer encoder weights (and preprocessing code), similar to how other open music/speech releases have shipped their codecs?
  2. If not, could you share the tokenizer's training configuration so the community can attempt a faithful reimplementation?

Thanks again for pushing open music generation forward.

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