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Traditional techniques for measuring similarities between time series are based on handcrafted similarity measures, whereas more recent learning-based approaches cannot exploit external supervision. We combine ideas from time-series…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Wenjie Pei , David M. J. Tax , Laurens van der Maaten

Many operations on sensory data -- comparison, memory, retrieval, and reasoning -- are naturally expressed over discrete symbolic structures. In language this interface is given by tokens; in audio, it must be learned. Existing audio…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Adhiraj Banerjee , Vipul Arora

While split conformal prediction guarantees marginal coverage, approaching the stronger property of conditional coverage is essential for reliable uncertainty quantification. Naive conformal scores, however, suffer from poor conditional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Sacha Braun , Eugène Berta , Michael I. Jordan , Francis Bach

This paper contributes multivariate versions of seven commonly used elastic similarity and distance measures for time series data analytics. Elastic similarity and distance measures are a class of similarity measures that can compensate for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Ahmed Shifaz , Charlotte Pelletier , Francois Petitjean , Geoffrey I. Webb

Obtaining large-scale human-labeled datasets to train acoustic representation models is a very challenging task. On the contrary, we can easily collect data with machine-generated labels. In this work, we propose to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Shaoyong Jia , Xin Shu , Yang Yang , Dawei Liang , Qiyue Liu , Junhui Liu

Psychoacoustical so-called "timbre spaces" map perceptual similarity ratings of instrument sounds onto low-dimensional embeddings via multidimensional scaling, but suffer from scalability issues and are incapable of generalization. Recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Haokun Tian , Stefan Lattner , Charalampos Saitis

Utilizing task-invariant knowledge acquired from related tasks as prior information, meta-learning offers a principled approach to learning a new task with limited data records. Sample-efficient adaptation of this prior information is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yilang Zhang , Bingcong Li , Georgios B. Giannakis

Any generic deep machine learning algorithm is essentially a function fitting exercise, where the network tunes its weights and parameters to learn discriminatory features by minimizing some cost function. Though the network tries to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Tapabrata Chakraborti , Brendan McCane , Steven Mills , Umapada Pal

This paper introduces a learning scheme to construct a Hilbert space (i.e., a vector space along its inner product) to address both unsupervised and semi-supervised domain adaptation problems. This is achieved by learning projections from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Samitha Herath , Mehrtash Harandi , Fatih Porikli

This paper presents methods of making using of text supervision to improve the performance of sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) voice conversion. Compared with conventional frame-to-frame voice conversion approaches, the seq2seq acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Yuan Jiang , Li-Juan Liu , Chen Liang , Li-Rong Dai

Time series similarity measures are highly relevant in a wide range of emerging applications including training machine learning models, classification, and predictive modeling. Standard similarity measures for time series most often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Lucas Cassiel Jacaruso

Prompt tuning can further enhance the performance of visual-language models across various downstream tasks (e.g., few-shot learning), enabling them to better adapt to specific applications and needs. In this paper, we present a Diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Songlin Dong , Zhengdong Zhou , Chenhao Ding , Xinyuan Gao , Alex Kot , Yihong Gong

This paper offers a precise, formal definition of an audio-to-score alignment. While the concept of an alignment is intuitively grasped, this precision affords us new insight into the evaluation of audio-to-score alignment algorithms.…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-01 John Thickstun , Jennifer Brennan , Harsh Verma

This paper focuses on optimal unimodal transformation of the score outputs of a univariate learning model under linear loss functions. We demonstrate that the optimal mapping between score values and the target region is a rectangular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu

This is a tutorial and survey paper on metric learning. Algorithms are divided into spectral, probabilistic, and deep metric learning. We first start with the definition of distance metric, Mahalanobis distance, and generalized Mahalanobis…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-25 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

Distance metric learning can be viewed as one of the fundamental interests in pattern recognition and machine learning, which plays a pivotal role in the performance of many learning methods. One of the effective methods in learning such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Mostafa Razavi Ghods , Mohammad Hossein Moattar , Yahya Forghani

Performance-score synchronization is an integral task in signal processing, which entails generating an accurate mapping between an audio recording of a performance and the corresponding musical score. Traditional synchronization methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Ruchit Agrawal , Daniel Wolff , Simon Dixon

Deep time series metric learning is challenging due to the difficult trade-off between temporal invariance to nonlinear distortion and discriminative power in identifying non-matching sequences. This paper proposes a novel neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Shinnosuke Matsuo , Xiaomeng Wu , Gantugs Atarsaikhan , Akisato Kimura , Kunio Kashino , Brian Kenji Iwana , Seiichi Uchida

We present a self-supervised approach for learning video representations using temporal video alignment as a pretext task, while exploiting both frame-level and video-level information. We leverage a novel combination of temporal alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Sanjay Haresh , Sateesh Kumar , Huseyin Coskun , Shahram Najam Syed , Andrey Konin , Muhammad Zeeshan Zia , Quoc-Huy Tran

In scalable machine learning systems, model training is often parallelized over multiple nodes that run without tight synchronization. Most analysis results for the related asynchronous algorithms use an upper bound on the information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Xuyang Wu , Sindri Magnusson , Hamid Reza Feyzmahdavian , Mikael Johansson