"""Initialize the decoder student by channel-slicing a frozen pretrained vocoder. Training a decoder this small from scratch does not converge to intelligible audio; slicing the top-left corner of a pretrained neural vocoder's decoder weights does. Pass any ConvNeXt-style vocoder state dict with --vocoder-ckpt; this takes the first `--dim` channels, the first `--pw` hidden units and the first `--blocks` blocks (dim 130 / pw 337 / blocks 4 for the shipped model). The sliced checkpoint still needs decoder training (train_decoder.py) before it is usable: a fresh slice renders noise, and only fine-tuning brings it back. python init_decoder.py --dim 130 --pw 337 --blocks 4 \ --vocoder-ckpt --out decoder_init.pt """ import sys from pathlib import Path import torch sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1])) from microtts.models import DecoderStudent def main(): import argparse ap = argparse.ArgumentParser() ap.add_argument("--dim", type=int, default=130) ap.add_argument("--pw", type=int, default=337) ap.add_argument("--blocks", type=int, default=4) ap.add_argument("--vocoder-ckpt", default=None, help="state dict / checkpoint of a ConvNeXt-style neural vocoder") ap.add_argument("--out", default="decoder_init.pt") args = ap.parse_args() if args.vocoder_ckpt: obj = torch.load(args.vocoder_ckpt, map_location="cpu", weights_only=False) sd = obj.state_dict() if hasattr(obj, "state_dict") else obj else: raise ImportError("pass --vocoder-ckpt pointing at a ConvNeXt-style vocoder state dict") student = DecoderStudent(dim=args.dim, pw_hidden=args.pw, blocks=args.blocks) ssd = student.state_dict() # embedding conv: [512, 100, 7] -> [dim, 100, 7] ssd["embed.weight"] = sd["backbone.embed.weight"][:args.dim].contiguous() ssd["embed.bias"] = sd["backbone.embed.bias"][:args.dim].contiguous() ssd["norm.weight"] = sd["backbone.norm.weight"][:args.dim].contiguous() ssd["norm.bias"] = sd["backbone.norm.bias"][:args.dim].contiguous() for i in range(args.blocks): src = f"backbone.convnext.{i}" dst = f"blocks.{i}" ssd[f"{dst}.dw.weight"] = sd[f"{src}.dwconv.weight"][:args.dim].contiguous() ssd[f"{dst}.dw.bias"] = sd[f"{src}.dwconv.bias"][:args.dim].contiguous() ssd[f"{dst}.norm.weight"] = sd[f"{src}.norm.weight"][:args.dim].contiguous() ssd[f"{dst}.norm.bias"] = sd[f"{src}.norm.bias"][:args.dim].contiguous() # pointwise slices: pw0 [pw, dim], pw1 [dim, pw] ssd[f"{dst}.pw0.weight"] = sd[f"{src}.pwconv1.weight"][:args.pw, :args.dim].contiguous() ssd[f"{dst}.pw0.bias"] = sd[f"{src}.pwconv1.bias"][:args.pw].contiguous() ssd[f"{dst}.pw1.weight"] = sd[f"{src}.pwconv2.weight"][:args.dim, :args.pw].contiguous() ssd[f"{dst}.pw1.bias"] = sd[f"{src}.pwconv2.bias"][:args.dim].contiguous() ssd[f"{dst}.gamma"] = sd[f"{src}.gamma"][:args.dim].contiguous() # final norm + head ssd["fnorm.weight"] = sd["backbone.final_layer_norm.weight"][:args.dim].contiguous() ssd["fnorm.bias"] = sd["backbone.final_layer_norm.bias"][:args.dim].contiguous() ssd["head.weight"] = sd["head.out.weight"][:, :args.dim].contiguous() ssd["head.bias"] = sd["head.out.bias"].contiguous() student.load_state_dict(ssd) torch.save(student.state_dict(), args.out) n = sum(p.numel() for p in student.parameters()) print(f"saved {args.out} | student params: {n:,}") if __name__ == "__main__": main()