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## BigVGAN: A Universal Neural Vocoder with Large-Scale Training

#### Sang-gil Lee, Wei Ping, Boris Ginsburg, Bryan Catanzaro, Sungroh Yoon

[[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04658) - [[Code]](https://github.com/NVIDIA/BigVGAN) - [[Showcase]](https://bigvgan-demo.github.io/) - [[Project Page]](https://research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/projects/bigvgan/) - [[Weights]](https://huggingface.co/collections/nvidia/bigvgan-66959df3d97fd7d98d97dc9a) - [[Demo]](https://huggingface.co/spaces/nvidia/BigVGAN)

[![PWC](https://img.shields.io/endpoint.svg?url=https://paperswithcode.com/badge/bigvgan-a-universal-neural-vocoder-with-large/speech-synthesis-on-libritts)](https://paperswithcode.com/sota/speech-synthesis-on-libritts?p=bigvgan-a-universal-neural-vocoder-with-large)

<center><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/15963413/218609148-881e39df-33af-4af9-ab95-1427c4ebf062.png" width="800"></center>

## News
- **Sep 2024 (v2.4):**
  - We have updated the pretrained checkpoints trained for 5M steps. This is final release of the BigVGAN-v2 checkpoints.

- **Jul 2024 (v2.3):**
  - General refactor and code improvements for improved readability.
  - Fully fused CUDA kernel of anti-alised activation (upsampling + activation + downsampling) with inference speed benchmark.

- **Jul 2024 (v2.2):** The repository now includes an interactive local demo using gradio.

- **Jul 2024 (v2.1):** BigVGAN is now integrated with πŸ€— Hugging Face Hub with easy access to inference using pretrained checkpoints. We also provide an interactive demo on Hugging Face Spaces.

- **Jul 2024 (v2):** We release BigVGAN-v2 along with pretrained checkpoints. Below are the highlights:
  - Custom CUDA kernel for inference: we provide a fused upsampling + activation kernel written in CUDA for accelerated inference speed. Our test shows 1.5 - 3x faster speed on a single A100 GPU.
  - Improved discriminator and loss: BigVGAN-v2 is trained using a [multi-scale sub-band CQT discriminator](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.14957) and a [multi-scale mel spectrogram loss](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06546).
  - Larger training data: BigVGAN-v2 is trained using datasets containing diverse audio types, including speech in multiple languages, environmental sounds, and instruments.
  - We provide pretrained checkpoints of BigVGAN-v2 using diverse audio configurations, supporting up to 44 kHz sampling rate and 512x upsampling ratio.

## Installation

The codebase has been tested on Python `3.10` and PyTorch `2.3.1` conda packages with either `pytorch-cuda=12.1` or `pytorch-cuda=11.8`. Below is an example command to create the conda environment:

```shell
conda create -n bigvgan python=3.10 pytorch torchvision torchaudio pytorch-cuda=12.1 -c pytorch -c nvidia
conda activate bigvgan
```

Clone the repository and install dependencies:

```shell
git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/BigVGAN
cd BigVGAN
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

## Inference Quickstart using πŸ€— Hugging Face Hub

Below example describes how you can use BigVGAN: load the pretrained BigVGAN generator from Hugging Face Hub, compute mel spectrogram from input waveform, and generate synthesized waveform using the mel spectrogram as the model's input.

```python
device = 'cuda'

import torch
import bigvgan
import librosa
from meldataset import get_mel_spectrogram

# instantiate the model. You can optionally set use_cuda_kernel=True for faster inference.
model = bigvgan.BigVGAN.from_pretrained('nvidia/bigvgan_v2_24khz_100band_256x', use_cuda_kernel=False)

# remove weight norm in the model and set to eval mode
model.remove_weight_norm()
model = model.eval().to(device)

# load wav file and compute mel spectrogram
wav_path = '/path/to/your/audio.wav'
wav, sr = librosa.load(wav_path, sr=model.h.sampling_rate, mono=True) # wav is np.ndarray with shape [T_time] and values in [-1, 1]
wav = torch.FloatTensor(wav).unsqueeze(0) # wav is FloatTensor with shape [B(1), T_time]

# compute mel spectrogram from the ground truth audio
mel = get_mel_spectrogram(wav, model.h).to(device) # mel is FloatTensor with shape [B(1), C_mel, T_frame]

# generate waveform from mel
with torch.inference_mode():
    wav_gen = model(mel) # wav_gen is FloatTensor with shape [B(1), 1, T_time] and values in [-1, 1]
wav_gen_float = wav_gen.squeeze(0).cpu() # wav_gen is FloatTensor with shape [1, T_time]

# you can convert the generated waveform to 16 bit linear PCM
wav_gen_int16 = (wav_gen_float * 32767.0).numpy().astype('int16') # wav_gen is now np.ndarray with shape [1, T_time] and int16 dtype
```

## Local gradio demo <a href='https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio'><img src='https://img.shields.io/github/stars/gradio-app/gradio'></a>

You can run a local gradio demo using below command:

```python
pip install -r demo/requirements.txt
python demo/app.py
```

## Training

Create symbolic link to the root of the dataset. The codebase uses filelist with the relative path from the dataset. Below are the example commands for LibriTTS dataset:

```shell
cd filelists/LibriTTS && \
ln -s /path/to/your/LibriTTS/train-clean-100 train-clean-100 && \
ln -s /path/to/your/LibriTTS/train-clean-360 train-clean-360 && \
ln -s /path/to/your/LibriTTS/train-other-500 train-other-500 && \
ln -s /path/to/your/LibriTTS/dev-clean dev-clean && \
ln -s /path/to/your/LibriTTS/dev-other dev-other && \
ln -s /path/to/your/LibriTTS/test-clean test-clean && \
ln -s /path/to/your/LibriTTS/test-other test-other && \
cd ../..
```

Train BigVGAN model. Below is an example command for training BigVGAN-v2 using LibriTTS dataset at 24kHz with a full 100-band mel spectrogram as input:

```shell
python train.py \
--config configs/bigvgan_v2_24khz_100band_256x.json \
--input_wavs_dir filelists/LibriTTS \
--input_training_file filelists/LibriTTS/train-full.txt \
--input_validation_file filelists/LibriTTS/val-full.txt \
--list_input_unseen_wavs_dir filelists/LibriTTS filelists/LibriTTS \
--list_input_unseen_validation_file filelists/LibriTTS/dev-clean.txt filelists/LibriTTS/dev-other.txt \
--checkpoint_path exp/bigvgan_v2_24khz_100band_256x
```

## Synthesis

Synthesize from BigVGAN model. Below is an example command for generating audio from the model.
It computes mel spectrograms using wav files from `--input_wavs_dir` and saves the generated audio to `--output_dir`.

```shell
python inference.py \
--checkpoint_file /path/to/your/bigvgan_v2_24khz_100band_256x/bigvgan_generator.pt \
--input_wavs_dir /path/to/your/input_wav \
--output_dir /path/to/your/output_wav
```

`inference_e2e.py` supports synthesis directly from the mel spectrogram saved in `.npy` format, with shapes `[1, channel, frame]` or `[channel, frame]`.
It loads mel spectrograms from `--input_mels_dir` and saves the generated audio to `--output_dir`.

Make sure that the STFT hyperparameters for mel spectrogram are the same as the model, which are defined in `config.json` of the corresponding model.

```shell
python inference_e2e.py \
--checkpoint_file /path/to/your/bigvgan_v2_24khz_100band_256x/bigvgan_generator.pt \
--input_mels_dir /path/to/your/input_mel \
--output_dir /path/to/your/output_wav
```

## Using Custom CUDA Kernel for Synthesis

You can apply the fast CUDA inference kernel by using a parameter `use_cuda_kernel` when instantiating BigVGAN:

```python
generator = BigVGAN(h, use_cuda_kernel=True)
```

You can also pass `--use_cuda_kernel` to `inference.py` and `inference_e2e.py` to enable this feature.

When applied for the first time, it builds the kernel using `nvcc` and `ninja`. If the build succeeds, the kernel is saved to `alias_free_activation/cuda/build` and the model automatically loads the kernel. The codebase has been tested using CUDA `12.1`.

Please make sure that both are installed in your system and `nvcc` installed in your system matches the version your PyTorch build is using.

We recommend running `test_cuda_vs_torch_model.py` first to build and check the correctness of the CUDA kernel. See below example command and its output, where it returns `[Success] test CUDA fused vs. plain torch BigVGAN inference`:

```python
python tests/test_cuda_vs_torch_model.py \
--checkpoint_file /path/to/your/bigvgan_generator.pt
```

```shell
loading plain Pytorch BigVGAN
...
loading CUDA kernel BigVGAN with auto-build
Detected CUDA files, patching ldflags
Emitting ninja build file /path/to/your/BigVGAN/alias_free_activation/cuda/build/build.ninja..
Building extension module anti_alias_activation_cuda...
...
Loading extension module anti_alias_activation_cuda...
...
Loading '/path/to/your/bigvgan_generator.pt'
...
[Success] test CUDA fused vs. plain torch BigVGAN inference
 > mean_difference=0.0007238413265440613
...
```

If you see `[Fail] test CUDA fused vs. plain torch BigVGAN inference`, it means that the CUDA kernel inference is incorrect. Please check if `nvcc` installed in your system is compatible with your PyTorch version.

## Pretrained Models

We provide the [pretrained models on Hugging Face Collections](https://huggingface.co/collections/nvidia/bigvgan-66959df3d97fd7d98d97dc9a).
One can download the checkpoints of the generator weight (named `bigvgan_generator.pt`) and its discriminator/optimizer states (named `bigvgan_discriminator_optimizer.pt`) within the listed model repositories.

| Model Name                                                                                               | Sampling Rate | Mel band | fmax  | Upsampling Ratio | Params | Dataset                    | Steps | Fine-Tuned |
|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------:|:-------------:|:--------:|:-----:|:----------------:|:------:|:--------------------------:|:-----:|:----------:|
| [bigvgan_v2_44khz_128band_512x](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/bigvgan_v2_44khz_128band_512x)             | 44 kHz        | 128      | 22050 | 512              | 122M   | Large-scale Compilation    | 5M    | No         |
| [bigvgan_v2_44khz_128band_256x](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/bigvgan_v2_44khz_128band_256x)             | 44 kHz        | 128      | 22050 | 256              | 112M   | Large-scale Compilation    | 5M    | No         |
| [bigvgan_v2_24khz_100band_256x](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/bigvgan_v2_24khz_100band_256x)             | 24 kHz        | 100      | 12000 | 256              | 112M   | Large-scale Compilation    | 5M    | No         |
| [bigvgan_v2_22khz_80band_256x](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/bigvgan_v2_22khz_80band_256x)               | 22 kHz        | 80       | 11025 | 256              | 112M   | Large-scale Compilation    | 5M    | No         |
| [bigvgan_v2_22khz_80band_fmax8k_256x](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/bigvgan_v2_22khz_80band_fmax8k_256x) | 22 kHz        | 80       | 8000  | 256              | 112M   | Large-scale Compilation    | 5M    | No         |
| [bigvgan_24khz_100band](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/bigvgan_24khz_100band)                             | 24 kHz        | 100      | 12000 | 256              | 112M   | LibriTTS                   | 5M    | No         |
| [bigvgan_base_24khz_100band](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/bigvgan_base_24khz_100band)                   | 24 kHz        | 100      | 12000 | 256              | 14M    | LibriTTS                   | 5M    | No         |
| [bigvgan_22khz_80band](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/bigvgan_22khz_80band)                               | 22 kHz        | 80       | 8000  | 256              | 112M   | LibriTTS + VCTK + LJSpeech | 5M    | No         |
| [bigvgan_base_22khz_80band](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/bigvgan_base_22khz_80band)                     | 22 kHz        | 80       | 8000  | 256              | 14M    | LibriTTS + VCTK + LJSpeech | 5M    | No         |

The paper results are based on the original 24kHz BigVGAN models (`bigvgan_24khz_100band` and `bigvgan_base_24khz_100band`) trained on LibriTTS dataset.
We also provide 22kHz BigVGAN models with band-limited setup (i.e., fmax=8000) for TTS applications.
Note that the checkpoints use `snakebeta` activation with log scale parameterization, which have the best overall quality.

You can fine-tune the models by:

1. downloading the checkpoints (both the generator weight and its discriminator/optimizer states)
2. resuming training using your audio dataset by specifying `--checkpoint_path` that includes the checkpoints when launching `train.py`

## Training Details of BigVGAN-v2

Comapred to the original BigVGAN, the pretrained checkpoints of BigVGAN-v2 used `batch_size=32` with a longer `segment_size=65536` and are trained using 8 A100 GPUs.

Note that the BigVGAN-v2 `json` config files in `./configs` use `batch_size=4` as default to fit in a single A100 GPU for training. You can fine-tune the models adjusting `batch_size` depending on your GPUs.

When training BigVGAN-v2 from scratch with small batch size, it can potentially encounter the early divergence problem mentioned in the paper. In such case, we recommend lowering the `clip_grad_norm` value (e.g. `100`) for the early training iterations (e.g. 20000 steps) and increase the value to the default `500`.

## Evaluation Results of BigVGAN-v2

Below are the objective results of the 24kHz model (`bigvgan_v2_24khz_100band_256x`) obtained from the LibriTTS `dev` sets. BigVGAN-v2 shows noticeable improvements of the metrics. The model also exhibits reduced perceptual artifacts, especially for non-speech audio.

| Model      | Dataset                 | Steps | PESQ(↑)   | M-STFT(↓)  | MCD(↓)     | Periodicity(↓) | V/UV F1(↑) |
|:----------:|:-----------------------:|:-----:|:---------:|:----------:|:----------:|:--------------:|:----------:|
| BigVGAN    | LibriTTS                | 1M    | 4.027     | 0.7997     | 0.3745     | 0.1018         | 0.9598     |
| BigVGAN    | LibriTTS                | 5M    | 4.256     | 0.7409     | 0.2988     | 0.0809         | 0.9698     |
| BigVGAN-v2 | Large-scale Compilation | 3M    | 4.359     | 0.7134     | 0.3060     | 0.0621         | 0.9777     |
| BigVGAN-v2 | Large-scale Compilation | 5M    | **4.362** | **0.7026** | **0.2903** | **0.0593**     | **0.9793** |

## Speed Benchmark

Below are the speed and VRAM usage benchmark results of BigVGAN from `tests/test_cuda_vs_torch_model.py`, using `bigvgan_v2_24khz_100band_256x` as a reference model.

| GPU                        | num_mel_frame | use_cuda_kernel | Speed (kHz) | Real-time Factor | VRAM (GB) |
|:--------------------------:|:-------------:|:---------------:|:-----------:|:----------------:|:---------:|
| NVIDIA A100                | 256           | False           | 1672.1      | 69.7x            | 1.3       |
|                            |               | True            | 3916.5      | 163.2x           | 1.3       |
|                            | 2048          | False           | 1899.6      | 79.2x            | 1.7       |
|                            |               | True            | 5330.1      | 222.1x           | 1.7       |
|                            | 16384         | False           | 1973.8      | 82.2x            | 5.0       |
|                            |               | True            | 5761.7      | 240.1x           | 4.4       |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080    | 256           | False           | 841.1       | 35.0x            | 1.3       |
|                            |               | True            | 1598.1      | 66.6x            | 1.3       |
|                            | 2048          | False           | 929.9       | 38.7x            | 1.7       |
|                            |               | True            | 1971.3      | 82.1x            | 1.6       |
|                            | 16384         | False           | 943.4       | 39.3x            | 5.0       |
|                            |               | True            | 2026.5      | 84.4x            | 3.9       |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti | 256           | False           | 515.6       | 21.5x            | 1.3       |
|                            |               | True            | 811.3       | 33.8x            | 1.3       |
|                            | 2048          | False           | 576.5       | 24.0x            | 1.7       |
|                            |               | True            | 1023.0      | 42.6x            | 1.5       |
|                            | 16384         | False           | 589.4       | 24.6x            | 5.0       |
|                            |               | True            | 1068.1      | 44.5x            | 3.2       |

## Acknowledgements

We thank Vijay Anand Korthikanti and Kevin J. Shih for their generous support in implementing the CUDA kernel for inference.

## References

- [HiFi-GAN](https://github.com/jik876/hifi-gan) (for generator and multi-period discriminator)
- [Snake](https://github.com/EdwardDixon/snake) (for periodic activation)
- [Alias-free-torch](https://github.com/junjun3518/alias-free-torch) (for anti-aliasing)
- [Julius](https://github.com/adefossez/julius) (for low-pass filter)
- [UnivNet](https://github.com/mindslab-ai/univnet) (for multi-resolution discriminator)
- [descript-audio-codec](https://github.com/descriptinc/descript-audio-codec) and [vocos](https://github.com/gemelo-ai/vocos) (for multi-band multi-scale STFT discriminator and multi-scale mel spectrogram loss)
- [Amphion](https://github.com/open-mmlab/Amphion) (for multi-scale sub-band CQT discriminator)