---
license: mit
tags:
  - automatic-speech-recognition
  - audio
  - whisper
  - ferrotorch
---

# `ferrotorch/whisper-tiny-encoder`

whisper-tiny encoder (openai/whisper-tiny). 4-layer 6-head Transformer audio encoder, d_model=384, encoder_ffn_dim=1536, num_mel_bins=80, max_source_positions=1500. MIT-licensed. Pinned encoder-only — decoder/proj_out weights are dropped from this mirror. Real-artifact baseline for audio encoder parity vs transformers (#1149).

## Provenance

* Upstream: `openai/whisper-tiny` (mit).
* Conversion script:
  [`ferrotorch/scripts/pin_pretrained_whisper_weights.py`](https://github.com/dollspace-gay/ferrotorch/blob/main/scripts/pin_pretrained_whisper_weights.py).
* Ferrotorch issue: <https://github.com/dollspace-gay/ferrotorch/issues/1149>.
* SHA-256 of `model.safetensors` (this file is pinned in
  `ferrotorch-hub/src/registry.rs`): `4ce29194b87ef05385203f8b09914f5c3b060200c2b503d6d420459ffb80a294`.
* Number of trainable parameters in the encoder slice:
  **8,208,384**.
* Config snapshot: d_model=384,
  encoder_layers=4,
  encoder_attention_heads=6,
  encoder_ffn_dim=1536,
  num_mel_bins=80,
  max_source_positions=1500,
  activation_function='gelu'.
* Non-encoder keys dropped from the upstream checkpoint (this
  mirror is encoder-only): 100 total, first few:
  `['model.decoder.embed_positions.weight', 'model.decoder.embed_tokens.weight', 'model.decoder.layer_norm.bias']`.

## Value-parity probe

Three extra files are uploaded so the ferrotorch-side harness can
reproduce the parity verdict without re-running the upstream
Whisper model:

* `_value_parity_audio.bin` — deterministic synthetic 30-second
  audio (sum of three sine waves with a slow envelope),
  16 kHz mono float32, shape `[1, 480000]`.
* `_value_parity_mel.bin` — `WhisperFeatureExtractor(audio)`
  output `[1, 80, 3000]` float32 from the upstream feature
  extractor. The Rust-side `ferrotorch_whisper::audio` is
  compared against this.
* `_value_parity_encoder_output.bin` — float32 encoder hidden
  states `[1, 1500, 384]` from
  `WhisperModel.encoder(input_features=mel).last_hidden_state`.
  Format: `[u32 ndim][u32 × ndim shape][f32 × prod(shape)]`
  little-endian (matches every other ferrotorch dump).

## How to load

```rust
use ferrotorch_whisper::{
    HfWhisperConfig, WhisperConfig, load_whisper_encoder,
};
use ferrotorch_hub::{HubCache, hf_download_model};

let cache = HubCache::with_default_dir();
let repo_dir = hf_download_model("ferrotorch/whisper-tiny-encoder", "main", &cache)?;
let hf_cfg = HfWhisperConfig::from_file(repo_dir.join("config.json"))?;
let cfg = WhisperConfig::from_hf(&hf_cfg)?;
let (encoder, _drop_report) = load_whisper_encoder::<f32>(
    &repo_dir.join("model.safetensors"),
    cfg,
    /* strict = */ false,
)?;
```

## Upstream license

```
MIT License

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```