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The Gradio training tab only targets the turbo model. This notebook drives the integrated Side-Step CLI (fixed mode: continuous timesteps + CFG dropout) on acestep-v15-base: installs deps without flash-attn, downloads only VAE/text encoder/base DiT, preprocesses with the base variant, trains and exports the adapter, with Google Drive persistence and resume support.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HaFv3KnEJjKbkKhW4AZDav

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  • New Features
    • Added a Colab notebook for preparing and training ACE-Step v1.5 base-model LoRA or LoKR adapters with Side-Step.
    • Supports audio uploads, optional dataset metadata, and preprocessing that reuses completed tensors when the dataset settings match.
    • Offers configurable training and resume options, saves outputs to Google Drive, and supports browsing or downloading checkpoints and testing adapters with Gradio.

…base

The Gradio training tab only targets the turbo model. This notebook drives
the integrated Side-Step CLI (fixed mode: continuous timesteps + CFG
dropout) on acestep-v15-base: installs deps without flash-attn, downloads
only VAE/text encoder/base DiT, preprocesses with the base variant, trains
and exports the adapter, with Google Drive persistence and resume support.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HaFv3KnEJjKbkKhW4AZDav
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Adds a Colab notebook for training ACE-Step v1.5 base-model LoRA or LoKR adapters with Side-Step. It configures dependencies and model assets, prepares audio data and tensors, runs training, and provides optional monitoring, packaging, and inference.

Changes: Base-model adapter training

Layer / File(s) Summary
Colab setup and model assets
notebooks/ACE_Step_v15_Base_SideStep_Colab.ipynb
Adds workflow instructions, GPU and Drive setup, dependency installation, and selective downloads or synchronization of model assets.
Dataset construction and metadata
notebooks/ACE_Step_v15_Base_SideStep_Colab.ipynb
Accepts audio and optional ZIP or JSON input. Builds or retags dataset metadata from sidecars and defaults, and reports missing audio files.
Tensor preprocessing and adapter training
notebooks/ACE_Step_v15_Base_SideStep_Colab.ipynb
Preprocesses tensors and reuses them only when completed tensors exist and the fingerprint matches. Configures and runs LoRA or LoKR training, with optional TensorBoard.
Adapter outputs and inference
notebooks/ACE_Step_v15_Base_SideStep_Colab.ipynb
Lists checkpoints and adapters, supports optional adapter packaging, and configures Gradio testing with the base model.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant ColabNotebook
  participant SideStepCLI
  participant GoogleDrive
  User->>ColabNotebook: Configure training and provide audio data
  ColabNotebook->>SideStepCLI: Run preprocessing command
  SideStepCLI->>GoogleDrive: Write preprocessed tensors
  ColabNotebook->>SideStepCLI: Execute training command
  SideStepCLI->>GoogleDrive: Write checkpoints and adapter
  ColabNotebook->>User: List or package adapter and configure Gradio testing
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Resolve the adapter-targeting, dataset, and inference failures before merging. In particular, some training selections omit requested layers, lower-memory GPU users may be unable to load their adapter, and the public inference link can expose Drive work files.

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LoRA and LoKR begin to train,
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- Line 153: Update the base-model downloader invocation so CKPT_DIR is passed as
a single argument when its path contains spaces; follow the argument-list
approach used by the preprocessing command instead of interpolating it into a
shell command string.
- Line 315: Update the documented resume path in the notebook to use the
trainer’s actual `epoch_N_loss_VALUE` checkpoint directory naming, and validate
`RESUME_FROM` before training so a nonexistent path is rejected rather than
silently starting at epoch zero.
- Line 208: Add duplicate-stem validation immediately after the recursive audio
scan that builds `found`, before preprocessing starts. Reject inputs where
distinct audio paths share the same stem so preprocessing cannot overwrite one
result with another.
- Line 251: Replace the manifest-only guard based on TENSOR_DIR with a
completion marker for this notebook’s preprocessing run that records the model
variant and dataset. Skip preprocessing only when the marker matches the
expected variant and dataset and all expected tensor files are present;
otherwise run preprocessing.
- Line 267: Replace the shell-command execution in the preprocessing and
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")\n",
"\n",
"# DiT base (le downloader du dépôt synchronise aussi le code du modèle)\n",
"cmd = f\"python -m acestep.model_downloader --model acestep-v15-base --skip-main --dir {CKPT_DIR}\"\n",

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Pass the checkpoint path as one argument.

If CHECKPOINTS_ON_DRIVE is enabled and DRIVE_WORKDIR contains spaces, the shell splits CKPT_DIR after --dir. The base-model download then fails. Run the downloader with an argument list, as the preprocessing command already does when it builds its arguments. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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" os.remove(name)\n",
"\n",
"EXTS = (\".wav\", \".mp3\", \".flac\", \".ogg\", \".opus\", \".m4a\")\n",
"found = [os.path.join(r, f) for r, _, fs in os.walk(AUDIO_DIR) for f in fs if f.lower().endswith(EXTS)]\n",

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject duplicate audio stems before preprocessing.

If a ZIP contains album_a/track01.wav and album_b/track01.wav, the recursive scan finds both files. Side-Step writes both results as track01.pt; the later result replaces the earlier one. Check for duplicate stems before launching preprocessing, or give each tensor a path-derived unique name in the preprocessor. Otherwise, training silently loses a sample. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Add duplicate-stem validation immediately after the recursive audio scan that
builds `found`, before preprocessing starts. Reject inputs where distinct audio
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"if FORCE_REPROCESS and os.path.isdir(TENSOR_DIR):\n",
" shutil.rmtree(TENSOR_DIR)\n",
"\n",
"if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(TENSOR_DIR, \"manifest.json\")):\n",

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Replace the manifest-only preprocessing guard.

This notebook’s preprocessing path writes .pt files but does not create manifest.json. A completed run therefore never satisfies this guard. Conversely, a manifest left by another workflow makes the notebook skip preprocessing without confirming that its tensors use the base model. Track successful preprocessing with a marker that records the model variant and dataset, and validate the expected tensor files before skipping. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Replace the manifest-only guard based on TENSOR_DIR with a completion marker for
this notebook’s preprocessing run that records the model variant and dataset.
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" args += [\"--dataset-json\", DATASET_JSON]\n",
" cmd = shlex.join(args)\n",
" print(cmd)\n",
" !{cmd}\n",

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Stop the notebook when preprocessing or training fails.

IPython does not raise on a failed ! command by default. A failed preprocessing command can therefore leave training pointed at old tensors. A failed training command can leave the export cell free to package an earlier final directory on Drive. Execute both commands with subprocess.run(..., check=True) before allowing the next step. (github.com)

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Replace the shell-command execution in the preprocessing and training steps with
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…cement

Add a dataset-builder cell that writes the ACE-Step/Side-Step JSON from the
audio folder (caption/lyrics/json sidecar files, measured duration) with
custom_tag, tag_position (prepend/append/replace) and genre_ratio, or
re-tags an existing JSON such as a Gradio Dataset Builder export. It
previews the exact prompts Side-Step will encode.

Preprocessing now re-runs when the dataset changes: Side-Step skips
existing .pt files and writes no manifest.json, so the previous check never
detected finished tensors and a changed tag would not have been applied.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HaFv3KnEJjKbkKhW4AZDav

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- Around line 461-463: Update the preprocessing stamp logic around _tensor_count
and STAMP to write the stamp only when the subprocess succeeds and the tensor
count matches the discovered audio-file count in found. Otherwise, leave the
stamp unwritten so a partial run is retried.
- Around line 336-338: In cell 4b, keep the input JSON path separate from the
generated DATASET_JSON by reading from SOURCE_JSON, and initialize or reset
SOURCE_JSON when cell 4 assigns DATASET_JSON. In _finalize, remove each sample’s
custom_tag when CUSTOM_TAG is empty so a previous tag is not retained.
- Line 315: Make cell 4b produce stable dataset JSON by deriving each generated
ID from the audio file’s path relative to AUDIO_DIR instead of using uuid4, and
exclude metadata.created_at from the fingerprint calculation in step 5. Keep
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" if CUSTOM_TAG:\n",
" # Per-sample tags win over the dataset-level one, so set both.\n",
" sample[\"custom_tag\"] = CUSTOM_TAG\n",

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not overwrite DATASET_JSON with the generated file.

Line 373 assigns the generated file to DATASET_JSON. The next run of cell 4b then enters the re-tag branch on Line 344 and no longer rebuilds samples from the audio files. Edits to .caption.txt, .lyrics.txt, or .json sidecars are silently ignored until cell 4 runs again. The re-tag branch also keeps any existing per-sample custom_tag. _finalize only sets the tag when CUSTOM_TAG is non-empty. If a user clears CUSTOM_TAG and reruns 4b, the old trigger word stays in every sample. Per-sample tags take priority over the dataset-level tag, so this old tag is still trained. The markdown on Lines 242-243 says that any change in this cell takes effect, and this behavior contradicts it.

Keep the source JSON in its own variable. Remove the per-sample tag when CUSTOM_TAG is empty.

🐛 Proposed fix
     if CUSTOM_TAG:
         # Per-sample tags win over the dataset-level one, so set both.
         sample["custom_tag"] = CUSTOM_TAG
+    else:
+        sample.pop("custom_tag", None)
 if BUILD_JSON:
-    if DATASET_JSON:
+    SOURCE_JSON = globals().get("SOURCE_JSON") or DATASET_JSON
+    if SOURCE_JSON:
         # Re-tag an existing JSON (e.g. exported by the Gradio Dataset Builder)
-        with open(DATASET_JSON, encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+        with open(SOURCE_JSON, encoding="utf-8") as fh:

Reset SOURCE_JSON = None in cell 4 when it sets DATASET_JSON.

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" if _tensor_count() > 0:\n",
" with open(STAMP, \"w\") as fh:\n",
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Write the stamp only after a successful, complete preprocessing run.

!{cmd} does not raise when the subprocess fails. The stamp is written whenever at least one .pt exists. Some preprocessing runs stop partway, for example from OOM on a long file or a failed decode. After such a run, the stamp marks the partial tensor set as up to date. Later runs skip preprocessing (Line 436), and training silently uses a subset of the dataset. Check the exit code, and compare the tensor count with the number of discovered audio files.

🐛 Proposed fix
-    !{cmd}
-    if _tensor_count() > 0:
+    rc = subprocess.run(args).returncode
+    n = _tensor_count()
+    if rc == 0 and n >= len(found):
         with open(STAMP, "w") as fh:
             fh.write(fingerprint)
+    else:
+        print(f"⚠️ Prétraitement incomplet (code {rc}, {n}/{len(found)} tenseurs) : stamp non écrit.")

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461 - 463:
Update the preprocessing stamp logic around _tensor_count and STAMP to write the
stamp only when the subprocess succeeds and the tensor count matches the
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…adapter

Adds a final section that starts the inference UI with a public share link,
the base DiT preloaded, the training checkpoints dir (ACESTEP_CHECKPOINTS_DIR),
the PyTorch LM backend (nano-vllm is not installed) and the Drive workdir
allowed, and prints the adapter path to load.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Line 671: Update the Gradio launch configuration around USE_DRIVE and WORKDIR
so --share does not expose the entire Drive workdir through --allowed-path.
Remove the broad allowed path or restrict it to only the specific output files
the UI needs.
- Around line 669-670: Update the notebook’s inference launch configuration to
pass `--quantization none` so the service starts without DiT quantization and
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Disable DiT quantization before loading an adapter.

On a supported T4-class GPU, the pipeline defaults to INT8 DiT quantization. Its adapter loader then rejects both LoRA and LoKR while quantization is active. This launch omits --quantization none, so a user can reach Gradio but cannot complete the documented Load LoRA step without reinitializing the service. Start inference without quantization, and use offloading if the GPU needs more memory. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the notebook’s inference launch configuration to pass `--quantization
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" \"--share\",\n",
" \"--init_service\", \"true\",\n",
" \"--config_path\", \"acestep-v15-base\",\n",
" \"--backend\", \"pt\",\n",

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not expose the Drive workdir through the public link.

When USE_DRIVE has its default value, WORKDIR contains the user's audio, metadata, tensors, and outputs. Gradio serves every file under a directory passed to --allowed-path. The notebook also passes --share and no authentication arguments. Anyone with the share link can request files from that Drive workdir. Remove the broad allowed path, or allow only the specific output files needed by the UI. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @notebooks/ACE_Step_v15_Base_SideStep_Colab.ipynb at line 671:
Update the Gradio launch configuration around USE_DRIVE and WORKDIR so --share
does not expose the entire Drive workdir through --allowed-path. Remove the
broad allowed path or restrict it to only the specific output files the UI
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- Mount Drive and use MyDrive/ACE-Step as the workspace: reuse its
  checkpoints/ and only download the missing training weights there,
  read datasets/<name>/ (default maes2), write tensors to
  datasets/preprocessed_tensors/<name>_base and checkpoints + final adapter
  to lora_output/<run>/.
- Option to run the code from the Drive install instead of a fresh clone.
- Auto-detect an ACE-Step dataset JSON and remap audio paths by file name
  when it was built on another machine.
- List saved checkpoints (epoch_N_loss_X) for resuming and sync Drive.

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Side-Step loads the DiT with trust_remote_code from the checkpoint folder
and, unlike the Gradio service, never re-syncs those .py files. When
acestep-v15-base is already on the Drive (skipping the download, which is
where the sync normally happens), align its code with the repo first.

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…ges are harmless

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requirements.txt leaves torchcodec unpinned, so pip picked the latest
release, whose native library fails to load against torch 2.10 (undefined
symbol), making every file fail preprocessing. Install the version from
uv.lock and fail the install cell early if the audio decoder cannot load.

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🟠 Major · Include audio changes in the preprocessing… · ACE_Step_v15_Base_SideStep_Colab.ipynb:533

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Include audio changes in the preprocessing fingerprint.

The fingerprint includes sorted(found), but not the contents or modification state of those files. If a user replaces song.wav at the same path and reruns preprocessing with the same JSON, up_to_date remains true. Training then uses tensors from the old audio. Include an audio-content digest, or a reliable file-change signature, before reusing tensors.

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Update the preprocessing fingerprint built in the `h` assignment to incorporate
a content digest or reliable change signature for each audio file in `found`, so
replacing a file at the same path invalidates `up_to_date` and triggers
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🟠 Major · Do not direct LoKR users to the Gradio LoRA loader. · ACE_Step_v15_Base_SideStep_Colab.ipynb:794

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not direct LoKR users to the Gradio LoRA loader.

The notebook permits ADAPTER_TYPE = "lokr", but this inference step tells users to load its output as a LoRA adapter. The documented Gradio loader requires adapter_config.json; LoKR produces lokr_weights.safetensors instead. Warn LoKR users before training that this inference step cannot test their adapter, or provide a LoKR-compatible inference path. (github.com)

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Update the notebook’s inference guidance around the “Vide = adaptateur final du
run courant” setting to warn users before training that the Gradio LoRA loader
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- Line 727: Update the checkpoint listing logic around `ckpts` to filter out
entries that are not valid epoch checkpoint directories before sorting, so
unrelated files such as `.DS_Store` cannot cause an `IndexError`. Preserve the
existing epoch-number ordering for valid checkpoints.
- Line 201: Update _has_weights to verify the required files for the model
folder, not just the presence of any file in WEIGHT_FILES; treat folders missing
config.json or other required files as incomplete so their download is not
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- Line 465: Update the samples filter that uses by_name to retain only entries
whose audio_path resolves, relative to the generated JSON’s directory when
needed, to an audio file in the discovered dataset; do not use filename alone to
determine whether a sample is usable.

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- Line 533: Update the preprocessing fingerprint built in the `h` assignment to
incorporate a content digest or reliable change signature for each audio file in
`found`, so replacing a file at the same path invalidates `up_to_date` and
triggers preprocessing again.
- Line 794: Update the notebook’s inference guidance around the “Vide =
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"def _has_weights(sub):\n",
" \"\"\"Return True when checkpoints/<sub> already holds model weights.\"\"\"\n",
" d = os.path.join(CKPT_DIR, sub)\n",
" return os.path.isdir(d) and any(os.path.exists(os.path.join(d, f)) for f in WEIGHT_FILES)\n",

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Check the complete model folder before skipping its download.

_has_weights accepts a folder that contains only a weight file. If a reused Drive checkpoint lacks config.json or other required files, the notebook skips the download and later model loading fails. Check the required files for each model folder before treating it as installed. The published base and text-encoder folders contain files in addition to their weights. (huggingface.co)

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" missing.append(ap)\n",
" if missing:\n",
" print(f\"⚠️ {len(missing)} audio(s) du JSON introuvable(s) dans {AUDIO_DIR} :\", missing[:5])\n",
" samples = [s for s in samples if s.get(\"filename\") in by_name]\n",

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Filter samples by successful audio resolution.

This filter checks filename, not whether the sample’s audio_path resolved. For example, a JSON sample with audio_path: "missing.wav" and filename: "song.wav" survives when song.wav exists in AUDIO_DIR. The generated JSON then retains the missing audio path, so preprocessing cannot use that sample. Keep only samples whose resolved audio file belongs to the discovered dataset. Side-Step resolves relative paths from the generated JSON’s directory. (github.com)

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"ckpt_root = os.path.join(OUTPUT_DIR, \"checkpoints\")\n",
"if os.path.isdir(ckpt_root):\n",
" ckpts = sorted(os.listdir(ckpt_root), key=lambda n: int(n.split(\"_\")[1]) if n.split(\"_\")[1].isdigit() else 0)\n",

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Ignore entries that are not epoch checkpoints.

The sort key reads n.split("_")[1] for every entry. If checkpoints/ contains a file such as .DS_Store, this cell raises IndexError before it prints any resume paths. Filter for valid checkpoint directories before sorting.

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Adds a TARGET_LAYERS choice (attention, or attention + mlp via
gate_proj/up_proj/down_proj) passed to Side-Step's --target-modules, for
higher-capacity adapters such as voice/timbre fidelity.

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… bf16

Side-Step's auto precision always picks bf16 on CUDA, including on T4.
Check native bf16 support first and fall back to fp16.

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…fe root

Side-Step validates dataset/output paths against the working directory at
import time. Running from the repo dir rejected the Drive tensor and output
folders; run train.py by absolute path from /content, which contains both.

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Keep MLP targets outside the attention-type filter.

If a user selects attention + mlp with ATTENTION_TYPE = "self" or "cross", resolve_target_modules prefixes the new targets with self_attn or cross_attn. The base DiT instead places these projections under mlp. Training can therefore complete without adapting the requested feed-forward layers. Apply the attention prefix only to attention targets, and preserve MLP targets for both LoRA and LoKR. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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claude added 10 commits October 17, 2026 13:46
…init

At startup the Gradio pipeline loads the 5Hz LM from <repo>/checkpoints and
ignores ACESTEP_CHECKPOINTS_DIR, so the LM was not found on the Drive.
Symlink the repo checkpoints folder to the Drive checkpoints before launch.

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Field result on an 84-song dataset matches the official tutorial (~500
epochs for ~100 songs) rather than the Side-Step guide's 50-100. Also note
that resuming a cosine run works when EPOCHS is unchanged.

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… defaults

- Generate deterministic sample ids and drop created_at so an unchanged
  dataset no longer triggers a full re-preprocessing every session.
- Refuse to train into an existing RUN_NAME unless resuming or
  OVERWRITE_RUN is ticked, so a new run cannot overwrite final/.
- Default to the validated setup: rank 128/alpha 256, 500 epochs,
  batch 2 x accumulation 2, checkpoint every 25 epochs.

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PEFT save_pretrained strips the adapter name from tensor keys
(...lora_A.weight) while the live PeftModel uses ...lora_A.default.weight,
so resume_checkpoint's load_state_dict(strict=False) matched no key and
resumed from an untrained adapter while still reporting success (the
optimizer and scheduler state were restored, hiding the problem).

Load through peft.set_peft_model_state_dict in a small adapter_resume
module, report the number of tensors restored, and fail the run instead of
silently starting fresh when no tensor matches.

Tests: acestep.training_v2.adapter_resume_test (5 tests, including a
regression test showing the previous loader applied none of the tensors).

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A stray space pasted into RUN_NAME split the TensorBoard path and would
have sent a resumed run to a different output folder. Strip both fields,
fail early when RESUME_FROM does not exist, and quote the logdir.

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The fixed trainer always used the model config's logit-normal mean
(-0.4 for base). Add an optional --timestep-mu override (fixed subcommand
only; default unchanged) so training can spend more steps at low noise,
where fine detail such as vocal texture is learned. Expose it in the Colab
notebook as TIMESTEP_MU (default auto).

Tests: acestep.training_v2.cli.config_builder_timestep_test (default,
override, vanilla unaffected).

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Reads every tensor's stored metadata, rebuilds the exact caption text the
model trains on (with the dataset tag_position), and flags samples without
trigger tag or lyrics before training starts.

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The CLI advertised the XL variants but VARIANT_DIR_MAP only listed the 2B
ones, so path validation looked for a literal 'xl_base' folder and failed.
Add the XL entries (matching model_loader._VARIANT_DIR).

Tests: acestep.training_v2.cli.variant_dir_map_test (fails without the fix).

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Add MODEL_VARIANT (base / xl_base) in section 1 and use it everywhere:
weights download and model-code sync, preprocessing (--model-variant and a
per-model tensor folder, maes2_base unchanged), training, and the model
Gradio loads. Training refuses tensors built for another model.
Defaults now follow the validated setup: tag maes2 in replace mode,
rank 256 / alpha 512, attention + MLP, lr 2e-4.

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…on 5

When the dataset and preprocessing cells are skipped (resume), derive
TENSOR_DIR from the dataset and model variant instead of failing with a
NameError, and stop early if that folder holds no tensors.

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