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Integrating Contrastive Learning into a Multitask Transformer Model for Effective Domain Adaptation

Computation and Language 2023-10-10 v1 Human-Computer Interaction Machine Learning

Abstract

While speech emotion recognition (SER) research has made significant progress, achieving generalization across various corpora continues to pose a problem. We propose a novel domain adaptation technique that embodies a multitask framework with SER as the primary task, and contrastive learning and information maximisation loss as auxiliary tasks, underpinned by fine-tuning of transformers pre-trained on large language models. Empirical results obtained through experiments on well-established datasets like IEMOCAP and MSP-IMPROV, illustrate that our proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance in SER within cross-corpus scenarios.

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@article{arxiv.2310.04703,
  title  = {Integrating Contrastive Learning into a Multitask Transformer Model for Effective Domain Adaptation},
  author = {Chung-Soo Ahn and Jagath C. Rajapakse and Rajib Rana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.04703},
  year   = {2023}
}
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