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# YuE2-3B

Multimodal Art Projection (M-A-P), YuE family. Status: current. Type: music generation. Released: 2026-09-09.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face |  |  | https://huggingface.co/m-a-p/YuE2-3B |
| GitHub (inference code, agent skill) |  |  | https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/YuE |
| Hugging Face (community GGUF) |  |  | https://huggingface.co/audio-cpp/Yue2-3B-GGUF |

## Pricing

- Price not published.
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: text, audio
- Output: audio
- Context window: not published
- Max output: not published
- Open weights: yes
- Licence: cc-by-nc-4.0 (weights; commercial license available), apache-2.0 (code)

## Where it stands

- Newer music generation models in the registry since its release: 1:
  - Eleven Music v2.5 (2026-09-11) https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-music-v2-5/
- Weights are public. Licence: cc-by-nc-4.0, apache-2.0. See the licence for commercial terms.

## What stands out

- 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: https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/YuE
- 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: https://huggingface.co/m-a-p/YuE2-3B

## Notes

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).

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

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/yue2/