# BEATs Checkpoints

This dataset contains pre-trained BEATs (Bidirectional Encoder representation from Audio Transformers) model checkpoints.

## Usage

These checkpoints are automatically downloaded by the `beats-trainer` Python package:

```python
from beats_trainer import BEATsFeatureExtractor

# Automatically downloads and uses checkpoints
extractor = BEATsFeatureExtractor()
```

## Source

These checkpoints are distributed as part of the [beats-trainer](https://github.com/Bencr/beats-trainer) project.

## License

BEATs_iter3_plus_AS2M.pt model weights are provided by Microsoft Research under their respective license terms (MIT). These can be found in their [GitHub repository](https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/tree/master/beats)

OpenBEATs-Base-i3.pt model weights are provided by the OpenBEATs project under their respective license terms. More details can be found in the [OpenBEATs paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.14129))