We trained an open-weights music model on 159 Creative Commons minimal techno tracks in 10 minutes. The result was worse than the untouched model. Negative result, written up with every clip.
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Third piece in a series on teaching ACE-Step 1.5 (open weights) new styles with small LoRA adapters. The first two used public-domain composers. This one tried a genre: 41 netlabel releases from the Internet Archive tagged "minimal techno", licence verified per release (CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA only),…
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We trained an open-weights music model on 159 Creative Commons minimal techno tracks in 10 minutes. The result was worse than the untouched model. Negative result, written up with every clip.
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