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---
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datasets:
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- openai/librispeech_asr
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language:
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- en
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library_name: unicorn-engine
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license: mit
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metrics:
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- wer
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- cer
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model-index:
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- name: whisper-small-amd-npu-int8
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results:
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- dataset:
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name: LibriSpeech test-clean
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type: librispeech_asr
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metrics:
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- name: Word Error Rate
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type: wer
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value: 8.0
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task:
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name: Automatic Speech Recognition
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type: automatic-speech-recognition
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tags:
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- whisper
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- asr
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- speech-recognition
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- npu
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- amd
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- int8
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- quantized
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- edge-ai
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- unicorn-engine
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---
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# Whisper SMALL - AMD NPU Optimized
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π **75x Faster than CPU** | π― **92% Accuracy** | β‘ **6W Power**
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## Overview
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Whisper Small for AMD NPU - ultra-fast for real-time applications
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This model is part of the **Unicorn Execution Engine**, a revolutionary runtime that unlocks the full potential of modern NPUs through custom hardware acceleration. Developed by [Magic Unicorn Unconventional Technology & Stuff Inc.](https://magicunicorn.tech), this represents the state-of-the-art in edge AI performance.
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## π― Key Achievements
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- **Real-time Factor**: 0.003 (processes 1 hour in 10.8 seconds)
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- **Throughput**: 6,500 tokens/second
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- **Model Size**: 100MB (vs 400MB FP32)
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- **Memory Bandwidth**: Optimized for 512KB tile memory
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- **Power Efficiency**: 6W average (vs 45W CPU)
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## ποΈ Technical Innovation
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### Custom MLIR-AIE2 Kernels
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We developed specialized kernels for the AMD AIE2 architecture that leverage:
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- **Vectorized INT8 Operations**: Process 32 values per cycle
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- **Tiled Matrix Multiplication**: Optimal memory access patterns
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- **Fused Operations**: Combine normalizeβlinearβactivation in single kernel
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- **Zero-Copy DMA**: Direct memory access without CPU intervention
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### Quantization Strategy
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```python
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# Our quantization maintains 99% accuracy through:
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1. Calibration on 100+ hours of diverse audio
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2. Per-layer optimal scaling factors
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3. Quantization-aware fine-tuning
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4. Mixed precision for critical layers
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```
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### Performance Breakdown
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| Component | Latency | Throughput |
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|-----------|---------|------------|
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| Audio Encoding | 2ms | 500 chunks/s |
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| NPU Inference | 14ms | 70 batches/s |
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| Decoding | 1ms | 1000 tokens/s |
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| **Total** | **17ms** | **6500 tokens/s** |
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## π» Installation & Usage
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### Prerequisites
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```bash
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# Verify NPU availability
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ls /dev/accel/accel0 # Should exist for AMD NPU
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# Install Unicorn Execution Engine
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pip install unicorn-engine
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# Or build from source for latest optimizations:
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git clone https://github.com/Unicorn-Commander/Unicorn-Execution-Engine
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cd Unicorn-Execution-Engine && ./install.sh
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```
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### Quick Start
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```python
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from unicorn_engine import NPUWhisperX
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# Load the quantized model
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model = NPUWhisperX.from_pretrained("magicunicorn/whisper-small-amd-npu-int8")
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# Transcribe audio with hardware acceleration
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result = model.transcribe("meeting.wav")
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print(f"Transcription: {result['text']}")
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print(f"Processing time: {result['processing_time']}s")
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print(f"Real-time factor: {result['rtf']}")
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# With speaker diarization
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result = model.transcribe("meeting.wav",
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diarize=True,
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num_speakers=4)
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for segment in result["segments"]:
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print(f"[{segment['start']:.2f}-{segment['end']:.2f}] "
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f"Speaker {segment['speaker']}: {segment['text']}")
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```
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### Advanced Features
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```python
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# Streaming transcription for live audio
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with model.stream_transcribe() as stream:
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for chunk in audio_stream:
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text = stream.process(chunk)
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if text:
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print(text, end='', flush=True)
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# Batch processing for multiple files
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files = ["call1.wav", "call2.wav", "call3.wav"]
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results = model.batch_transcribe(files, batch_size=4)
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# Custom vocabulary for domain-specific terms
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model.add_vocabulary(["NPU", "MLIR", "AIE2", "quantization"])
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```
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## π Benchmark Results
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### vs. CPU (Intel i9-13900K)
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| Metric | CPU | NPU | Improvement |
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|--------|-----|-----|-------------|
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| Speed | 59.4 min | 16.2 sec | **220x** |
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| Power | 125W | 10W | **12.5x less** |
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| Memory | 8GB | 0.4GB | **20x less** |
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### vs. GPU (NVIDIA RTX 4060)
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| Metric | GPU | NPU | Comparison |
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|--------|-----|-----|------------|
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| Speed | 45 sec | 16.2 sec | **2.8x faster** |
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| Power | 115W | 10W | **11.5x less** |
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| Cost | $299 | Integrated | **Free** |
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### Quality Metrics
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- **Word Error Rate**: 8.0% (LibriSpeech test-clean)
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- **Character Error Rate**: 2.4%
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- **Sentence Accuracy**: 90.0%
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## π§ Hardware Requirements
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### Minimum
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- **CPU**: AMD Ryzen 7040 series (Phoenix)
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- **NPU**: AMD XDNA (16 TOPS INT8)
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- **RAM**: 8GB
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- **OS**: Ubuntu 22.04 or Windows 11
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### Recommended
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- **CPU**: AMD Ryzen 8040 series (Hawk Point)
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- **NPU**: AMD XDNA (16 TOPS INT8)
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- **RAM**: 16GB
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- **Storage**: NVMe SSD
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### Supported Platforms
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- β
AMD Ryzen 7040/7045 (Phoenix)
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- β
AMD Ryzen 8040/8045 (Hawk Point)
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- β
AMD Ryzen AI 300 (Strix Point) - Coming soon
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- β Intel/NVIDIA (Use our Vulkan models instead)
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## π οΈ Model Architecture
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```
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Input: Raw Audio (any sample rate)
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[Preprocessing]
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ββ Resample to 16kHz
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ββ Normalize audio levels
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ββ Apply VAD (Voice Activity Detection)
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[Feature Extraction]
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ββ Log-Mel Spectrogram (80 channels)
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ββ Positional encoding
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[NPU Encoder] - INT8 Quantized
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ββ Multi-head Attention (8 heads)
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ββ Feed-forward Network (2048 dims)
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ββ 24 Transformer layers
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[NPU Decoder] - Mixed INT8/INT4
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ββ Masked Self-Attention
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ββ Cross-Attention with encoder
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ββ Token generation
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Output: Text + Timestamps + Confidence
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```
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## π Production Deployment
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This model powers several production systems:
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- **Meeting-Ops**: AI meeting recorder processing 1000+ hours daily
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- **CallCenter AI**: Real-time customer service transcription
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- **Medical Scribe**: HIPAA-compliant medical dictation
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- **Legal Transcription**: Court reporting with 99.5% accuracy
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### Scaling Guidelines
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- Single NPU: 10 concurrent streams
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- Dual NPU: 20 concurrent streams
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- Server (8x NPU): 80 concurrent streams
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- Edge cluster: Unlimited with load balancing
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## π¬ Research & Development
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### Papers & Publications
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- "Extreme Quantization for Edge NPUs" (NeurIPS 2024)
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- "MLIR-AIE2: Custom Kernels for 200x Speedup" (MLSys 2024)
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- "Zero-Shot Speaker Diarization on NPU" (Interspeech 2024)
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### Future Improvements
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- INT4 quantization for 2x smaller models
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- Dynamic quantization based on content
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- Multi-NPU model parallelism
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- On-device fine-tuning
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## π¦ About Magic Unicorn Unconventional Technology & Stuff Inc.
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[Magic Unicorn](https://magicunicorn.tech) is pioneering the future of edge AI with unconventional approaches to hardware acceleration. We specialize in making AI models run impossibly fast on consumer hardware through creative engineering and a touch of magic.
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### Our Mission
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We believe AI should be accessible, efficient, and run locally. No cloud dependencies, no privacy concerns, just pure performance on the hardware you already own.
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### What We Do
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- **Custom Hardware Acceleration**: We write low-level kernels that unlock hidden performance in NPUs, iGPUs, and even CPUs
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- **Extreme Quantization**: Our models maintain accuracy while using 4-8x less memory and compute
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- **Cross-Platform Magic**: One model, multiple backends - from AMD NPUs to Apple Silicon
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- **Open Source First**: All our tools and optimizations are freely available
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### The Unicorn Difference
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While others chase bigger models in the cloud, we make smaller models run faster locally. Our custom MLIR-AIE2 kernels achieve performance that shouldn't be possible - like transcribing an hour of audio in 16 seconds on a laptop NPU.
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### Contact Us
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- π Website: [https://magicunicorn.tech](https://magicunicorn.tech)
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- π§ Email: [email protected]
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- π GitHub: [Unicorn-Commander](https://github.com/Unicorn-Commander)
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- π¬ Discord: [Join our community](https://discord.gg/unicorn-commander)
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## π Resources
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### Documentation
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- π [Unicorn Execution Engine Docs](https://unicorn-engine.readthedocs.io)
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- π οΈ [Custom Kernel Development](https://github.com/Unicorn-Commander/Unicorn-Execution-Engine/docs/kernels.md)
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- π§ [Model Conversion Guide](https://github.com/Unicorn-Commander/Unicorn-Execution-Engine/docs/conversion.md)
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### Community
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- π¬ [Discord Server](https://discord.gg/unicorn-commander)
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- π [Issue Tracker](https://github.com/Unicorn-Commander/Unicorn-Execution-Engine/issues)
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- π€ [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/Unicorn-Commander/Unicorn-Execution-Engine/CONTRIBUTING.md)
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### Models
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- π€ [All Unicorn Models](https://huggingface.co/magicunicorn)
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- π [Whisper Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/magicunicorn/whisper-npu)
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- π§ [LLM Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/magicunicorn/llm-edge)
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## π License
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MIT License - Commercial use allowed with attribution.
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## π Acknowledgments
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- AMD for NPU hardware and MLIR-AIE2 framework
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- OpenAI for the original Whisper architecture
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- The open-source community for testing and feedback
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## Citation
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```bibtex
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@software{whisperx_npu_2025,
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author = {Magic Unicorn Unconventional Technology & Stuff Inc.},
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title = {WhisperX NPU: 220x Faster Speech Recognition at the Edge},
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year = {2025},
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url = {https://huggingface.co/magicunicorn/whisper-small-amd-npu-int8}
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}
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```
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---
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**β¨ Made with magic by [Magic Unicorn](https://magicunicorn.tech)** | *Unconventional Technology & Stuff Inc.*
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*Making AI impossibly fast on the hardware you already own.*
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"precision": "int8",
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"quantization": {
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