YuE2-3B
Self-reported WildSongBench best-of-8 6.9632 vs Suno v5 6.8721. English + Mandarin lyrics. Model card states ~4B parameters. HF repos created 2026-09-09; exact public announcement day not verified. Predecessor YuE (2025-01-28, arXiv 2503.08638).
- Input
- text, audio
- Output
- audio
- License
- cc-by-nc-4.0 (weights; commercial license available), apache-2.0 (code)
- Verified
- 2026-09-29
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face | — | huggingface.co/m-a-p/YuE2-3B | — |
| GitHub (inference code, agent skill) | — | github.com/multimodal-art-projection/YuE | — |
| Hugging Face (community GGUF) | — | huggingface.co/audio-cpp/Yue2-3B-GGUF | — |
Notable capabilities (2)
- Score-first song generation: Writes an editable melody-and-chord plan in ABC notation, then renders a full song with vocals and accompaniment (48 kHz stereo). source
- Zero-shot covers and agentic editing: Covers from reference recordings (0.647 CLEWS mAP, self-reported) and conversational editing that turns musical feedback into score revisions. source
Open-weights full-song generator from M-A-P (HKUST-led). Runs locally on one consumer GPU; weights download automatically on first use via the GitHub package.
Sources: https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/YuE , https://huggingface.co/m-a-p/YuE2-3B
Timeline entry
- YuE2: open-weights song model that plans an editable score first, claims top WildSongBench score over Suno v5 ★★★
The M-A-P research community (HKUST and partners) released YuE2, a ~3-4B open-weights song generator that first writes an editable melody-and-chord score (ABC notation) and then renders full songs with vocals and accompaniment at 48 kHz stereo, with zero-shot covers and conversational "agentic"…