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discogs-maest-10s-pw-129e

by Music Technology Group (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) mtg-upf/discogs-maest-10s-pw-129e

MAEST is a family of Transformer models based on PASST and focused on music analysis applications. The MAEST models are also available for inference in the Essentia library and for inference and training in the official repository.

Parameters86M
Context
Weights688.1 MB
Licensecc-by-nc-sa-4.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads6.2k

Runs On

What it takes to serve discogs-maest-10s-pw-129e (86M parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 0.2 GB 0.2 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 0.1 GB 0.1 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 0.0 GB 0.1 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Sep 18, 2026.

Model Card

MAEST is a family of Transformer models based on PASST and focused on music analysis applications. The MAEST models are also available for inference in the Essentia library and for inference and training in the official repository. You can try the MAEST interactive demo on replicate. MAEST is a music audio representation model pre-trained on the task of music style classification. According to the evaluation reported in the original paper, it reports good performance in several downstream music analysis tasks. The MAEST models can make predictions for a taxonomy of 400 music styles derived from the public metadata of Discogs. The MAEST models have reported good performance in downstream…

Excerpt from the card by Music Technology Group (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), licensed cc-by-nc-sa-4.0.

Configuration

Architecture
ASTForAudioClassification
Layers
12
Hidden size
768
Feed-forward size
3,072
Attention heads
12
Stored precision
float32
Model type
audio-spectrogram-transformer

Identity and Version

Repository
mtg-upf/discogs-maest-10s-pw-129e
Publisher
Music Technology Group (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Task
Audio classification
Modality
Audio
Library
transformers
Parameters
86M parameters
Languages
Not stated by the source
Revision
54b3b0aa49ab26bc86d973c53d41aa6b28597b06
First published
2023-09-27
Last updated
2025-05-07

Files and Weights

7 files, 688.1 MB in total. The weights are 2 files totalling 688.1 MB in bin, safetensors.

Weights2 files · 688.1 MB
Configuration3 files · 38.3 KB
Documentation1 file · 7.9 KB
Repository1 file · 1.5 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model.safetensorsWeights344.0 MB 4c47fe335a5d
pytorch_model.binWeights344.0 MB 1dc15c1354b5
config.jsonConfiguration27.6 KB
feature_extraction_maest.pyConfiguration10.2 KB
preprocessor_config.jsonConfiguration475 B
README.mdDocumentation7.9 KB
.gitattributesRepository1.5 KB

License and Download

License
cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
688.1 MB
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Released by Music Technology Group (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) through its official repository on Hugging Face.

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Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published688.1 MB
16-bit0.2 GB
8-bit0.1 GB
4-bit0.0 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

Questions About discogs-maest-10s-pw-129e

How much GPU memory does discogs-maest-10s-pw-129e need?

About 0.2 GB at 16-bit and 0.1 GB at 4-bit: the weights (86M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run discogs-maest-10s-pw-129e on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use discogs-maest-10s-pw-129e commercially?

Not without separate permission. discogs-maest-10s-pw-129e is released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 permits non-commercial sharing and adapting with credit, and requires adaptations to use the same license. Commercial use needs separate permission.

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