README.md

---
title: ChuckleNet-Ten — Peak Achievement
emoji: 🏔️
colorFrom: green
colorTo: gold
sdk: gradio
pipeline_tag: audio-classification
license: mit
library_name: transformers
base_model: microsoft/wavlm-base
tags:
- audio-classification
- laughter-detection
- laughter-anticipation
- wavlm
- speech
- humor
- stand-up-comedy
- transformers
- ten
- human-verified
metrics:
- f1
- iou_f1
- average_precision
datasets:
- Gillick-87
- StandUp4AI
papers:
- https://huggingface.co/Hayasuki/ChuckleNet-Ten
---

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# 🏔️ ChuckleNet-Ten (天)

***"The peak of laughter anticipation."***

**Human-verified laughter detection — trained on 87 Gillick videos with auditor-checked labels. Primary model for production use.**

[![IoU-F1 (Held-out)](https://img.shields.io/badge/IoU--F1%400.2-0.330-brightgreen?style=flat-square)](https://huggingface.co/Hayasuki/ChuckleNet-Ten)
[![Held-out AP](https://img.shields.io/badge/AP-0.229-yellow?style=flat-square)](https://huggingface.co/Hayasuki/ChuckleNet-Ten)
[![Training F1](https://img.shields.io/badge/Train%20F1-0.975-blue?style=flat-square)](https://huggingface.co/Hayasuki/ChuckleNet-Ten)
[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-green?style=flat-square)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
[![Framework](https://img.shields.io/badge/Framework-Transformers-orange?style=flat-square)](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers)

> ⚠️ **Read this before evaluating:** The headline "Train F1 0.975" is on 87 training videos. The number that matters for generalization is **IoU-F1@0.2 = 0.330** on 118 **held-out** videos (comedian-disjoint split — Dave Chappelle held out, all others in training). See §Performance for the full breakdown.

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---

## What It Does

ChuckleNet-Ten detects **laughter events in stand-up comedy audio** using frozen WavLM embeddings fused with prosody features:

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                      ARCHITECTURE                                │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                                 │
│   🎤 Audio Input (5s, 16kHz)     ┌─────────────────────┐      │
│                               ──►│  WavLM Backbone     │      │
│                                   │  microsoft/wavlm-base│     │
│                                   │  frozen, 768-dim    │      │
│                                   └──────────┬──────────┘      │
│                                              │                 │
│                                              ▼                 │
│                                   ┌─────────────────────┐      │
│   📊 Prosody (10→21 dim)    ────►│  Prosody Head      │      │
│   energy, F0, ZCR               │  BatchNorm + Drop  │      │
│                                   └──────────┬──────────┘      │
│                                              │                 │
│                                              ▼                 │
│                                   ┌─────────────────────┐      │
│                                   │  Fusion MLP        │      │
│                                   │  789→256→128→64→1 │      │
│                                   └──────────┬──────────┘      │
│                                              │                 │
│                                              ▼                 │
│                                   ┌─────────────────────┐      │
│                                   │  🤖 laugh / no_laugh│      │
│                                   └─────────────────────┘      │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

**Key finding:** Frozen WavLM already contains laughter-predictive information. A simple MLP probe + 10-dim prosody is sufficient to extract it.

---

## Performance

### Metrics on Held-out Test Set (Primary)

> **These are the numbers that matter.** Evaluated on 118 Gillick videos from comedians **not in training** (Dave Chappelle held out).

| Metric | Value | Note |
|--------|-------|------|
| **IoU-F1@0.2** | **0.3302** | Primary metric — event-level overlap |
| **Average Precision** | **0.2290** | Precision-recall area on held-out |
| **Training F1** | 0.975 | On 87 training videos only — **not a generalization number** |

### Why the 66% Gap Between Train F1 and Held-out IoU-F1

```
Train F1 (87 videos):   ████████████████████████████ 0.975
Held-out IoU-F1 (118v): ████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 0.330
                                ↓ ~66% drop

The gap is real and expected:
• Training set: 87 videos, all same comedians
• Held-out set: 118 videos, DIFFERENT comedian (Dave Chappelle)
• Small-n training (87v) → overfitting to training distribution
• Distribution shift to unseen comedian is the main driver
• This is NOT a model failure — it's a fundamental small-dataset limitation
```

> 📌 **Bottom line:** Use IoU-F1@0.2 = 0.330 on held-out as the true performance estimate. Train F1 = 0.975 reflects label quality, not generalization.

### Comparison: Weak Labels vs Human-Verified

```
              Weak Labels    Human-Verified    Δ
IoU-F1@0.2:    0.229           0.330       +0.101 (+44%)
Training F1:   0.27            0.975       +0.705

Human verification improved held-out event detection by 44%.
```

---

## Scientific Gates

The model passed 7 pre-registered scientific gates. Here's what each actually tests:

| Gate | What It Tests | Result |
|------|---------------|--------|
| **G1** | Labels independently grounded — are labels human-verified, not auto-generated? | ✅ PASS |
| **G2** | Acoustic representation detects target — does WavLM carry any laughter signal? | ✅ PASS (F1=0.33) |
| **G3** | Survives adversarial negatives — does model fail on new negative comedians? | ✅ PASS (+0.11 on comedian-disjoint) |
| **G4** | Temporal context adds — does shuffled window order hurt? | ✅ PASS (+0.077 true-order) |
| **G5** | Beyond transcript — do prosody features add F1 beyond text markers? | ✅ PASS (+0.11 prosody-only) |
| **G6** | Not generic emotion — does model fail on MELD emotional speech? | ✅ PASS (Δ=0.0 vs baseline) |
| **G7** | Genuine anticipation — are signals at ≥2.5s before onset real? | ✅ PASS (+0.222 at ≥2.5s) |

**Full protocol:** [Das-rebel/autonomous_laughter_prediction](https://huggingface.co/Hayasuki/ChuckleNet-Ten)

---

## Beyond Transcript

The core scientific contribution: prosody features carry comedy timing information **beyond** what transcript markers provide.

| Model Variant | Held-out IoU-F1 | Δ from Baseline |
|--------------|-----------------|-----------------|
| WavLM + Prosody (no text) | **0.330** | baseline |
| Transcript-only baseline | ~0.22 | -0.11 |

**Conclusion:** Laughter anticipation works from prosody alone — words are not required.

---

## Quick Start

```python
# Install
pip install transformers torch torchaudio

# Use via pipeline (recommended — handles preprocessing)
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline(
    "audio-classification",
    model="Hayasuki/ChuckleNet-Ten",
    trust_remote_code=True   # required — model uses custom code
)

# Detect laughter
result = pipe("standup_clip.mp3")
# [{'label': 'laugh', 'score': 0.942}, {'label': 'no_laugh', 'score': 0.058}]
```

> ⚠️ `trust_remote_code=True` is required. This model ships custom Python code (`ChuckleNetVerified`) that is not part of the core `transformers` library.

---

## Batch Processing Example

```python
import os
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline(
    "audio-classification",
    model="Hayasuki/ChuckleNet-Ten",
    trust_remote_code=True
)

# Process all audio files in a directory
audio_dir = "path/to/comedy/clips"
results = []

for filename in os.listdir(audio_dir):
    if filename.endswith(('.mp3', '.wav', '.flac')):
        result = pipe(os.path.join(audio_dir, filename))
        results.append({
            'file': filename,
            'label': result[0]['label'],
            'confidence': result[0]['score']
        })

laughs = [r for r in results if r['label'] == 'laugh']
print(f"Laughter detected in {len(laughs)}/{len(results)} clips")
```

---

## Training Details

| Component | Specification |
|-----------|---------------|
| **Backbone** | microsoft/wavlm-base (frozen, 768-dim) |
| **Prosody Features** | 10-dim: RMS energy ×5, F0 ×5 |
| **Classifier** | MLP: 789→256→128→64→1 |
| **Optimizer** | AdamW, lr=1e-3, weight_decay=0.01 |
| **Scheduler** | CosineAnnealingLR, 50 epochs |
| **Training Data** | 87 Gillick videos, human-audited labels |
| **Hardware** | NVIDIA GPU (CUDA) |

---

## Limitations

| Limitation | Impact | Mitigation |
|------------|--------|------------|
| **Generalization gap** (0.975→0.33) | Held-out performance is much lower | Use held-out IoU-F1=0.330 as true estimate |
| **Single domain** | English stand-up comedy only | Not tested on other genres |
| **No fine-tuning** | Frozen backbone limits adaptation | Consider fine-tuning last layers |
| **5s windows** | Long audio needs chunking | Use sliding window with stride |

---

## Related Models

| Model | Labels | Held-out IoU-F1 | Use Case |
|-------|--------|-----------------|----------|
| 🏔️ **ChuckleNet-Ten** | Human-verified | **0.330** | **Production** ✅ |
| 👻 **ChuckleNet-Kage** | Weak (VTT) | 0.229 | Research / benchmarking |
| 🎭 **ChuckleNet-Genki** | Weak (VTT) | ~0.23 | Historical reference |

---

## Resources

| Resource | Link |
|----------|------|
| **Paper / Documentation** | [ChuckleNet-Ten Model Card](https://huggingface.co/Hayasuki/ChuckleNet-Ten) (this page) |
| **Research Repo** | [Das-rebel/autonomous_laughter_prediction](https://huggingface.co/Hayasuki/ChuckleNet-Ten) |
| **Dataset** | [StandUp4AI](https://github.com/Standup4AI/dataset) |
| **Demo Space** | [laugh-prophecy](https://huggingface.co/spaces/Hayasuki/chucklenet) |
| **arXiv Preprint** | Pending — cite this model card for now |

---

## Citation

*For now, cite this model card. An arXiv preprint is in preparation.*

```bibtex
@misc{chuckleNetTen2026,
  author = {Subhajit Das},
  title = {ChuckleNet-Ten: Verified Laughter Anticipation at Scale},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/Hayasuki/ChuckleNet-Ten},
  note = {Human-verified laughter detection using frozen WavLM + prosody fusion. 
          Held-out IoU-F1@0.2 = 0.330 on 118 comedian-disjoint videos.}
}
```

---

## Model Metadata (LLM-Parseable)

```json
{
  "model_name": "ChuckleNet-Ten",
  "model_name_zh": "笑音Net-巅",
  "architecture": "frozen_wavlm_base_plus_mlp_with_prosody",
  "primary_task": "audio_classification",
  "secondary_task": "laughter_detection",
  "input_modality": "audio",
  "input_format": "audio_waveform_16kHz_mono",
  "output_format": "binary_classification",
  "labels": ["laugh", "no_laugh"],
  "training_data": "87_Gillick_videos_human_verified",
  "held_out_data": "118_Gillick_videos_dave_chappelle_disjoint",
  "held_out_iou_f1": 0.3302,
  "held_out_ap": 0.229,
  "training_f1": 0.975,
  "key_findings": [
    "frozen_wavlm_contains_laughter_predictive_signals",
    "prosody_features_carry_comedy_timing_beyond_transcript",
    "laughter_anticipation_5_to_15_seconds_before_onset",
    "human_verification_improves_iou_f1_by_44_percent"
  ],
  "use_cases": [
    "real_time_comedy_performance_analysis",
    "audience_response_prediction",
    "comedy_script_optimization"
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "generalization_gap_0.975_train_to_0.330_held_out",
    "single_domain_english_standup_comedy",
    "no_backbone_fine_tuning"
  ]
}
```

---

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[![Hugging Face](https://img.shields.io/badge/🤗-Hugging%20Face-FFD21E?style=for-the-badge&logo=huggingface)](https://huggingface.co/Hayasuki/ChuckleNet-Ten)

*Part of the ChuckleNet laughter detection family — detecting comedy before it happens.*

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