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	---
	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
	---

	<div align="center">

	# 🏔️ 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.

	</div>

	---

	## 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"
	]
	}
	```

	---

	<div align="center">

	[![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.

	</div>