In plain words: A guitar amp model whose size can be dialed up or down while it runs, with no retraining and little cost, so musicians trade sound accuracy for computing power. It was compared with standard fixed-size amp models and ran live in an audio plug-in.
Abstract · Slimmable NAM: Neural Amp Models with adjustable runtime computational cost
This work demonstrates "slimmable Neural Amp Models", whose size and computational cost can be changed without additional training and with negligible computational overhead, enabling musicians to easily trade off between the accuracy and compute of the models they are using. The method's performance is quantified against commonly-used baselines, and a real-time demonstration of the model in an audio effect plug-in is developed.
Steven Atkinson
arXiv:2511.07470 · cs.LG · submitted Nov 8, 2025
abstract · pdf · html · 2 pages, 2 figures. Accepted to NeurIPS 2025 workshop on AI for Music