ACE-Step is a novel open-source foundation model for music generation that overcomes key limitations of existing approaches through a holistic architectural design. It integrates diffusion-based generation with Sana's Deep Compression AutoEncoder (DCAE) and a lightweight linear transformer, achieving state-of-the-art performance in generation speed, musical coherence, and controllability.
1@misc{gong2025acestep,
2 title={ACE-Step: A Step Towards Music Generation Foundation Model},
3 author={Junmin Gong, Wenxiao Zhao, Sen Wang, Shengyuan Xu, Jing Guo},
4 howpublished={\url{https://github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step}},
5 year={2025},
6 note={GitHub repository}
7}
This project is co-led by ACE Studio and StepFun.