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### Musicgen Model Description MusicGen by AudioCraft is a single-stage, auto-regressive Transformer that generates high-quality music at 32 kHz using a 4-codebook EnCodec tokenizer. Trained on 20 000 hours of licensed tracks, it predicts all codebooks in parallel with only 50 autoregressive steps per second—no separate semantic embeddings required.
### Models & Demos - **Scales:** small, medium, large, melody, stereo - **Demos:** Hugging Face Space, Colab notebook, local Gradio app, Jupyter examples
### Key Benefits - **Efficiency:** Parallel codebook prediction for faster inference - **Flexibility:** Text-only or text+melody conditioning across multiple model sizes - **Accessibility:** Available via 🤗 Transformers (v4.31.0+) with minimal dependencies