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Trying to port Whisper model to NNX
Includes the example for running the Whisper model for the G. Bush speech transcription.


Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model that can transcribe audio in multiple languages and perform various speech recognition tasks including transcription, translation, and language identification.

**🚀 Status: Production Ready** - The model successfully loads pretrained weights and performs accurate speech transcription with no HuggingFace dependencies during inference.
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Please omit this statement, Bonsai is intended to be academia / general audience targeting model repository.
A production ready model must be proven to be extremely performant in various large cluster HW settings, which this model is not proven to.

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- **Robust**: Handles various accents, background noise, and technical language
- **Flexible**: Can perform transcription, translation, and language identification
- **Efficient**: Optimized for JAX with JIT compilation
- **Production Ready**: Successfully loads pretrained weights and generates accurate transcriptions
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Please omit, bonsai model implementations are focused on feature parity with original model implementations and the exact capabilities of models need not be highlighted here.

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This file will be helpful if we were to do quality checks with golden logits comparison between bonsai impl vs. original HF impl, but should not be necessary otherwise.

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# Whisper Model Installation Guide
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I don't think this file is needed, and if we have JAX-specific debugging tips it should be at the root bonsai documents.

Individual library installation specifications can be in the root pyproject.toml file.

Much of these should be self-explanatory from the code. (ex: The first time you run the model, it will automatically download the Whisper weights from HuggingFace.)

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No need for 3 blank lines, please keep empty

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Used for actual imports

# x shape: (batch, n_mels, time) -> (batch, time, n_mels) for Conv1D
x = x.transpose(0, 2, 1)

# Conv stack with GELU
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Please omit self evident comments and unnecessary spaces, we want concise, readable code with shorter loc as much as possible

return model(mel_features, tokens, mask)


def generate(model: WhisperModel, mel_features: Array, max_length: int = 448, temperature: float = 0.0) -> Array:
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please keep consistency (ex: naming, style, structure) with qwen example.

ex: this functionally should be forward function.


return model(mel_features, tokens, mask)


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Please apply jax.jit here, you may need to separate out the state as the qwen example rather than passing the model as a whole.

repetition_window = 10

for step in range(max_length - len(prompt_tokens[0])):
# Create causal mask
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ditto for removing all unnecessary comments and newlines


def __call__(self, mel_features: Array, tokens: Array, mask: Optional[Array] = None) -> Array:
# Encode audio
xa = self.encoder(mel_features)
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please avoid abbreviations for non obvious names

https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html#316-naming

if len(recent_tokens) >= 6:
last_3 = recent_tokens[-3:]
prev_3 = recent_tokens[-6:-3]
if jnp.array_equal(last_3, prev_3):
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Is this stopping logic part of the original whisper code?

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No. Changed to original greedy + stop token

# Use HuggingFace tokenizer instead of tiktoken
from transformers import WhisperTokenizer

LANGUAGES = {
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Do we need this? We can just call whichever language directly via WhisperTokenizer(language=...)

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# Generate tokens
# Initialize HuggingFace tokenizer
print(f"\n🔤 Initializing HuggingFace tokenizer...")
tokenizer_instance = get_tokenizer(multilingual=True, language="en", task="transcribe")
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We can just directly use WhisperTokenizer.from_pretrained("openai/whisper-tiny", language="english", task="transcribe") here.

If we're only using certain tokenizer imports (ex: tokenizer.sot, tokenizer.to_language_token("en"), tokenizer.transcribe, tokenizer.no_timestamps) once, can we just hardcode the variables (ex: <|startoftext|>) in this file? We want to make these implementations as simple and hackable as possible with minimal dependencies that are not directly used.

https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/whisper#transformers.WhisperTokenizer

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Yes called it directly

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Is this file a modue or a test file? I don't think we should have the test logic and function class together in the same file.

Also, I don't think most of the functions here are used (ex: decode_with_timestamps, etc).
Could we remove this file and call WhisperTokenizer directly? We'd like to not add an unnecessary abstraction, if possible.

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Removed this completely

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This seems to be still here, could we remove this?

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We are using bush_speech as an example for decoding. It's CC labeled.

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jenriver commented Oct 6, 2025

Can you also add a quality logits checker (ex: test_outputs.py) to verify that the resulting logits are correct?

Also, it seems some comments are yet to be addressed (ex: unnecessary key mapping in tokenizer, need to remove data files and instead refer via wget) -- please let us know when it is ready to be reviewed so that we can get whisper checked in :)

- Implemented complete JAX Whisper model with real PyTorch weights
- Added audio processing with mel spectrogram computation
- Created clean modeling.py with WhisperConfig class methods
- Added comprehensive test suite with JAX vs PyTorch comparison
- Supports tiny, base, small, medium, large model sizes
- Includes real audio transcription example with Bush Moscow speech
- All tests pass with 81%+ similarity to PyTorch implementation
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Suvorov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Suvorov <[email protected]>
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