# Run this script to convert ACE-Step model weights to a diffusers pipeline. # # Usage: # python scripts/convert_ace_step_to_diffusers.py \ # --checkpoint_dir /path/to/ACE-Step-1.5/checkpoints \ # --dit_config acestep-v15-turbo \ # --output_dir /path/to/output/ACE-Step-v1-5-turbo \ # --dtype bf16 import argparse import json import os import shutil import torch from safetensors.torch import load_file def convert_ace_step_weights(checkpoint_dir, dit_config, output_dir, dtype_str="bf16"): """ Convert ACE-Step checkpoint weights into a Diffusers-compatible pipeline layout. The original ACE-Step model stores all weights in a single `model.safetensors` file under `checkpoints//`. This script splits the weights into separate sub-model directories that can be loaded by `AceStepPipeline.from_pretrained()`. Expected input layout: checkpoint_dir/ / # e.g., acestep-v15-turbo config.json model.safetensors silence_latent.pt vae/ config.json diffusion_pytorch_model.safetensors Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B/ config.json model.safetensors tokenizer.json ... Output layout: output_dir/ model_index.json transformer/ config.json diffusion_pytorch_model.safetensors condition_encoder/ config.json diffusion_pytorch_model.safetensors vae/ config.json diffusion_pytorch_model.safetensors text_encoder/ config.json model.safetensors ... tokenizer/ tokenizer.json ... """ # Support `--checkpoint_dir ` by snapshot-downloading it first. A # local path that happens not to exist still raises the clearer FileNotFoundError # below, so we only fall through to the Hub if the path is missing AND looks like # a repo id (namespace/name). if not os.path.exists(checkpoint_dir) and "/" in checkpoint_dir and not checkpoint_dir.startswith((".", "~", "/")): try: from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download print(f"Downloading `{checkpoint_dir}` from the Hugging Face Hub ...") checkpoint_dir = snapshot_download(repo_id=checkpoint_dir) print(f" -> local snapshot at {checkpoint_dir}") except ImportError as e: raise ImportError( "To use a Hugging Face Hub repo id for --checkpoint_dir, install `huggingface_hub`." ) from e # Resolve paths dit_dir = os.path.join(checkpoint_dir, dit_config) vae_dir = os.path.join(checkpoint_dir, "vae") text_encoder_dir = os.path.join(checkpoint_dir, "Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B") # The DiT weights ship either as a single `model.safetensors` (the smaller turbo # variant) or as sharded safetensors keyed by `model.safetensors.index.json` # (the 5B XL variant). Resolve both layouts to `dit_weight_files` and load below. single_model_path = os.path.join(dit_dir, "model.safetensors") sharded_index_path = os.path.join(dit_dir, "model.safetensors.index.json") config_path = os.path.join(dit_dir, "config.json") if os.path.exists(single_model_path): dit_weight_files = [single_model_path] elif os.path.exists(sharded_index_path): with open(sharded_index_path) as f: shard_index = json.load(f) dit_weight_files = [os.path.join(dit_dir, s) for s in sorted(set(shard_index["weight_map"].values()))] for p in dit_weight_files: if not os.path.exists(p): raise FileNotFoundError(f"sharded DiT weight missing: {p}") else: raise FileNotFoundError( f"DiT weights not found at: {single_model_path} or {sharded_index_path}. " "Expected either a single `model.safetensors` or a sharded " "`model.safetensors.index.json` + per-shard files." ) for path, name in [ (config_path, "config"), (vae_dir, "VAE"), (text_encoder_dir, "text encoder"), ]: if not os.path.exists(path): raise FileNotFoundError(f"{name} not found at: {path}") # Select dtype dtype_map = {"fp32": torch.float32, "fp16": torch.float16, "bf16": torch.bfloat16} if dtype_str not in dtype_map: raise ValueError(f"Unsupported dtype: {dtype_str}. Choose from {list(dtype_map.keys())}") target_dtype = dtype_map[dtype_str] # Load original config with open(config_path) as f: original_config = json.load(f) print(f"Loading DiT weights from {len(dit_weight_files)} file(s) ...") state_dict = {} for p in dit_weight_files: print(f" loading {os.path.basename(p)}") state_dict.update(load_file(p)) print(f" Total keys: {len(state_dict)}") # ========================================================================= # 1. Split weights by prefix # ========================================================================= transformer_sd = {} condition_encoder_sd = {} audio_tokenizer_sd = {} audio_token_detokenizer_sd = {} other_sd = {} # Rename original ACE-Step attention keys to the diffusers `Attention` + # `AttnProcessor` convention (`to_q`/`to_k`/`to_v`/`to_out.0`/`norm_q`/`norm_k`). # Applies uniformly to both the DiT (self-attn and cross-attn) and the # condition-encoder self-attention, since both use `AceStepAttention`. _ATTN_KEY_RENAMES = [ (".q_proj.", ".to_q."), (".k_proj.", ".to_k."), (".v_proj.", ".to_v."), (".o_proj.", ".to_out.0."), (".q_norm.", ".norm_q."), (".k_norm.", ".norm_k."), ] def _rename_attn_keys(key: str) -> str: for old, new in _ATTN_KEY_RENAMES: key = key.replace(old, new) return key for key, value in state_dict.items(): if key.startswith("decoder."): # Strip "decoder." prefix for the transformer new_key = key[len("decoder.") :] # The original model uses nn.Sequential for proj_in/proj_out: # proj_in = Sequential(Lambda, Conv1d, Lambda) # proj_out = Sequential(Lambda, ConvTranspose1d, Lambda) # Only the Conv1d/ConvTranspose1d (index 1) has parameters. # In diffusers, we use standalone Conv1d/ConvTranspose1d named proj_in_conv/proj_out_conv. new_key = new_key.replace("proj_in.1.", "proj_in_conv.") new_key = new_key.replace("proj_out.1.", "proj_out_conv.") new_key = _rename_attn_keys(new_key) transformer_sd[new_key] = value.to(target_dtype) elif key.startswith("encoder."): # Strip "encoder." prefix for the condition encoder new_key = key[len("encoder.") :] new_key = _rename_attn_keys(new_key) condition_encoder_sd[new_key] = value.to(target_dtype) elif key == "null_condition_emb": # Learned unconditional embedding (used by the base/SFT CFG path). # Keep it co-located with the condition encoder since that is where the # pipeline pulls unconditional sequences from. condition_encoder_sd["null_condition_emb"] = value.to(target_dtype) elif key.startswith("tokenizer."): new_key = key[len("tokenizer.") :] new_key = _rename_attn_keys(new_key) audio_tokenizer_sd[new_key] = value.to(target_dtype) elif key.startswith("detokenizer."): new_key = key[len("detokenizer.") :] new_key = _rename_attn_keys(new_key) audio_token_detokenizer_sd[new_key] = value.to(target_dtype) else: other_sd[key] = value.to(target_dtype) print(f" Transformer keys: {len(transformer_sd)}") print(f" Condition encoder keys: {len(condition_encoder_sd)}") print(f" Audio tokenizer keys: {len(audio_tokenizer_sd)}") print(f" Audio token detokenizer keys: {len(audio_token_detokenizer_sd)}") print(f" Other keys: {len(other_sd)} ({list(other_sd.keys())[:5]}...)") # ========================================================================= # 2. Build configs for each sub-model # ========================================================================= # On the 5B XL turbo the condition encoder is narrower than the DiT # (`encoder_hidden_size=2048` feeding a `hidden_size=2560` DiT). Non-XL # turbo / base checkpoints don't set this field, so fall back to # `hidden_size` — that makes the DiT's `condition_embedder` an identity-width # Linear as before. Similarly `encoder_intermediate_size` / # `encoder_num_attention_heads` / `encoder_num_key_value_heads` describe the # condition encoder on XL only. encoder_hidden_size = original_config.get("encoder_hidden_size", original_config["hidden_size"]) encoder_intermediate_size = original_config.get("encoder_intermediate_size", original_config["intermediate_size"]) encoder_num_attention_heads = original_config.get( "encoder_num_attention_heads", original_config["num_attention_heads"] ) encoder_num_key_value_heads = original_config.get( "encoder_num_key_value_heads", original_config["num_key_value_heads"] ) # Transformer (DiT) config. `is_turbo` / `model_version` propagate the variant so # the pipeline can pick the right CFG / shift / step-count defaults at inference. # Note: `max_position_embeddings` is dropped (RoPE computes freqs on-the-fly per call), # and `use_sliding_window` is implied by the mix of `layer_types`. transformer_config = { "_class_name": "AceStepTransformer1DModel", "_diffusers_version": "0.33.0.dev0", "hidden_size": original_config["hidden_size"], "intermediate_size": original_config["intermediate_size"], "num_hidden_layers": original_config["num_hidden_layers"], "num_attention_heads": original_config["num_attention_heads"], "num_key_value_heads": original_config["num_key_value_heads"], "head_dim": original_config["head_dim"], "in_channels": original_config["in_channels"], "audio_acoustic_hidden_dim": original_config["audio_acoustic_hidden_dim"], "patch_size": original_config["patch_size"], "rope_theta": original_config["rope_theta"], "attention_bias": original_config["attention_bias"], "attention_dropout": original_config["attention_dropout"], "rms_norm_eps": original_config["rms_norm_eps"], "sliding_window": original_config["sliding_window"], "layer_types": original_config["layer_types"], "encoder_hidden_size": encoder_hidden_size, "is_turbo": bool(original_config.get("is_turbo", False)), "model_version": original_config.get("model_version"), } # Condition encoder config condition_encoder_config = { "_class_name": "AceStepConditionEncoder", "_diffusers_version": "0.33.0.dev0", "hidden_size": encoder_hidden_size, "intermediate_size": encoder_intermediate_size, "text_hidden_dim": original_config["text_hidden_dim"], "timbre_hidden_dim": original_config["timbre_hidden_dim"], "num_lyric_encoder_hidden_layers": original_config["num_lyric_encoder_hidden_layers"], "num_timbre_encoder_hidden_layers": original_config["num_timbre_encoder_hidden_layers"], "num_attention_heads": encoder_num_attention_heads, "num_key_value_heads": encoder_num_key_value_heads, "head_dim": original_config["head_dim"], "rope_theta": original_config["rope_theta"], "attention_bias": original_config["attention_bias"], "attention_dropout": original_config["attention_dropout"], "rms_norm_eps": original_config["rms_norm_eps"], "sliding_window": original_config["sliding_window"], } audio_tokenizer_config = { "_class_name": "AceStepAudioTokenizer", "_diffusers_version": "0.33.0.dev0", "hidden_size": encoder_hidden_size, "intermediate_size": encoder_intermediate_size, "audio_acoustic_hidden_dim": original_config["audio_acoustic_hidden_dim"], "pool_window_size": original_config.get("pool_window_size", 5), "fsq_dim": original_config.get("fsq_dim", encoder_hidden_size), "fsq_input_levels": original_config.get("fsq_input_levels", [8, 8, 8, 5, 5, 5]), "fsq_input_num_quantizers": original_config.get("fsq_input_num_quantizers", 1), "num_attention_pooler_hidden_layers": original_config.get("num_attention_pooler_hidden_layers", 2), "num_attention_heads": encoder_num_attention_heads, "num_key_value_heads": encoder_num_key_value_heads, "head_dim": original_config["head_dim"], "rope_theta": original_config["rope_theta"], "attention_bias": original_config["attention_bias"], "attention_dropout": original_config["attention_dropout"], "rms_norm_eps": original_config["rms_norm_eps"], "sliding_window": original_config["sliding_window"], "layer_types": original_config["layer_types"][: original_config.get("num_attention_pooler_hidden_layers", 2)], } audio_token_detokenizer_config = { "_class_name": "AceStepAudioTokenDetokenizer", "_diffusers_version": "0.33.0.dev0", "hidden_size": encoder_hidden_size, "intermediate_size": encoder_intermediate_size, "audio_acoustic_hidden_dim": original_config["audio_acoustic_hidden_dim"], "pool_window_size": original_config.get("pool_window_size", 5), "num_attention_pooler_hidden_layers": original_config.get("num_attention_pooler_hidden_layers", 2), "num_attention_heads": encoder_num_attention_heads, "num_key_value_heads": encoder_num_key_value_heads, "head_dim": original_config["head_dim"], "rope_theta": original_config["rope_theta"], "attention_bias": original_config["attention_bias"], "attention_dropout": original_config["attention_dropout"], "rms_norm_eps": original_config["rms_norm_eps"], "sliding_window": original_config["sliding_window"], "layer_types": original_config["layer_types"][: original_config.get("num_attention_pooler_hidden_layers", 2)], } # ========================================================================= # 3. Bake silence_latent into the condition_encoder state dict. # # The original loader in # acestep/core/generation/handler/init_service_loader.py:214 does # self.silence_latent = torch.load(...).transpose(1, 2) # converting the stored [B, C=64, T=15000] tensor to [B, T, C=64] before any # downstream slicing. Do the same transpose here and register it as the # `silence_latent` buffer on AceStepConditionEncoder — the pipeline slices # `silence_latent[:, :timbre_fix_frame, :]` to build the "silence" input to the # timbre encoder when no reference audio is supplied. Passing literal zeros # produces drone-like audio. silence_latent_src = os.path.join(dit_dir, "silence_latent.pt") if os.path.exists(silence_latent_src): silence_raw = torch.load(silence_latent_src, weights_only=True, map_location="cpu") silence_latent = silence_raw.transpose(1, 2).to(target_dtype).contiguous() print(f" silence_latent raw shape: {tuple(silence_raw.shape)} -> baked shape: {tuple(silence_latent.shape)}") condition_encoder_sd["silence_latent"] = silence_latent # ========================================================================= # 4. Build the AceStepPipeline in memory and save via `save_pretrained`. # Assembling the pipeline directly (rather than hand-writing model_index.json) # ensures the saved repo stays in sync with the `AceStepPipeline.__init__` # signature — e.g. a future sub-module added to the pipeline can't silently # drift out of `model_index.json`. # ========================================================================= from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer from diffusers import ( AceStepPipeline, AceStepTransformer1DModel, AutoencoderOobleck, FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler, ) from diffusers.pipelines.ace_step import ( AceStepAudioTokenDetokenizer, AceStepAudioTokenizer, AceStepConditionEncoder, ) # Drop metadata keys — they're re-populated by `save_pretrained` at save time. transformer_init_kwargs = {k: v for k, v in transformer_config.items() if not k.startswith("_")} condition_encoder_init_kwargs = {k: v for k, v in condition_encoder_config.items() if not k.startswith("_")} audio_tokenizer_init_kwargs = {k: v for k, v in audio_tokenizer_config.items() if not k.startswith("_")} audio_token_detokenizer_init_kwargs = { k: v for k, v in audio_token_detokenizer_config.items() if not k.startswith("_") } print("\nConstructing transformer ...") transformer = AceStepTransformer1DModel(**transformer_init_kwargs).to(target_dtype) transformer.load_state_dict(transformer_sd, strict=True) print("Constructing condition_encoder ...") condition_encoder = AceStepConditionEncoder(**condition_encoder_init_kwargs).to(target_dtype) condition_encoder.load_state_dict(condition_encoder_sd, strict=True) print("Constructing audio_tokenizer ...") audio_tokenizer = AceStepAudioTokenizer(**audio_tokenizer_init_kwargs).to(target_dtype) audio_tokenizer.load_state_dict(audio_tokenizer_sd, strict=True) print("Constructing audio_token_detokenizer ...") audio_token_detokenizer = AceStepAudioTokenDetokenizer(**audio_token_detokenizer_init_kwargs).to(target_dtype) audio_token_detokenizer.load_state_dict(audio_token_detokenizer_sd, strict=True) print("Loading VAE ...") vae = AutoencoderOobleck.from_pretrained(vae_dir).to(target_dtype) print("Loading text encoder ...") text_encoder = AutoModel.from_pretrained(text_encoder_dir, torch_dtype=target_dtype) print("Loading tokenizer ...") tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(text_encoder_dir) # ACE-Step drives the DiT with t ∈ [0, 1] and computes its own shifted / turbo # sigma schedule, which it passes to `scheduler.set_timesteps(sigmas=...)` at # sampling time. So the scheduler needs `num_train_timesteps=1` (so # `scheduler.timesteps == sigmas`) and `shift=1.0` (so it doesn't re-shift # already-shifted sigmas). All other defaults are fine. scheduler = FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler(num_train_timesteps=1, shift=1.0) pipe = AceStepPipeline( vae=vae, text_encoder=text_encoder, tokenizer=tokenizer, transformer=transformer, condition_encoder=condition_encoder, scheduler=scheduler, audio_tokenizer=audio_tokenizer, audio_token_detokenizer=audio_token_detokenizer, ) print(f"\nSaving pipeline -> {output_dir}") pipe.save_pretrained(output_dir, safe_serialization=True, max_shard_size="5GB") # Keep the raw silence_latent.pt at the pipeline root for debugging — not # required by `from_pretrained`, but makes it easy to re-derive the buffer # without re-running the full conversion. if os.path.exists(silence_latent_src): shutil.copy2(silence_latent_src, os.path.join(output_dir, "silence_latent.pt")) print(f" kept raw silence_latent copy at {output_dir}/silence_latent.pt") # Report any keys that were not saved to registered pipeline modules. if other_sd: print(f"\nNote: {len(other_sd)} keys were dropped:") for key in sorted(other_sd.keys())[:10]: print(f" {key}") if len(other_sd) > 10: print(f" ... ({len(other_sd) - 10} more)") print(f"\nConversion complete! Output saved to: {output_dir}") print("\nTo load the pipeline:") print(" from diffusers import AceStepPipeline") print(f" pipe = AceStepPipeline.from_pretrained('{output_dir}', torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)") print(" pipe = pipe.to('cuda')") if __name__ == "__main__": parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Convert ACE-Step model weights to Diffusers pipeline format") parser.add_argument( "--checkpoint_dir", type=str, required=True, help="Path to the ACE-Step checkpoints directory (containing vae/, Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B/, and dit config dirs)", ) parser.add_argument( "--dit_config", type=str, default="acestep-v15-turbo", help="Name of the DiT config directory (default: acestep-v15-turbo)", ) parser.add_argument( "--output_dir", type=str, required=True, help="Path to save the converted Diffusers pipeline", ) parser.add_argument( "--dtype", type=str, default="bf16", choices=["fp32", "fp16", "bf16"], help="Data type for saved weights (default: bf16)", ) args = parser.parse_args() convert_ace_step_weights( checkpoint_dir=args.checkpoint_dir, dit_config=args.dit_config, output_dir=args.output_dir, dtype_str=args.dtype, )