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Generating a text abstract from a set of documents remains a challenging task. The neural encoder-decoder framework has recently been exploited to summarize single documents, but its success can in part be attributed to the availability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Logan Lebanoff , Kaiqiang Song , Fei Liu

Statistical signal processing based speech enhancement methods adopt expert knowledge to design the statistical models and linear filters, which is complementary to the deep neural network (DNN) based methods which are data-driven. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-19 Wei Xue , Gang Quan , Chao Zhang , Guohong Ding , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is one of the most popular techniques for data representation and clustering, and has been widely used in machine learning and data analysis. NMF concentrates the features of each sample into a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Mulin Chen , Maoguo Gong , Xuelong Li

Dimensionality reduction and matrix factorization techniques are important and useful machine-learning techniques in many fields. Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is particularly useful for spectral analysis and image processing in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-20 Guangtun Zhu

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is one of the most popular decomposition techniques for multivariate data. NMF is a core method for many machine-learning related computational problems, such as data compression, feature extraction,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Gabriele Torre , Michael Graber

In this paper we address speaker-independent multichannel speech enhancement in unknown noisy environments. Our work is based on a well-established multichannel local Gaussian modeling framework. We propose to use a neural network for…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Simon Leglaive , Laurent Girin , Radu Horaud

Separable Non-negative Matrix Factorization (SNMF) is an important method for topic modeling, where "separable" assumes every topic contains at least one anchor word, defined as a word that has non-zero probability only on that topic. SNMF…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Kun He , Wu Wang , Xiaosen Wang , John E. Hopcroft

Existing data augmentation approaches for neural machine translation (NMT) have predominantly relied on back-translating in-domain (IND) monolingual corpora. These methods suffer from issues associated with a domain information gap, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Wei Peng , Chongxuan Huang , Tianhao Li , Yun Chen , Qun Liu

This paper introduces a quantum-inspired denoising framework that integrates the Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT) into classical audio enhancement pipelines. Unlike conventional Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) based methods, QFT provides a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Rajeshwar Tripathi , Sahil Tomar , Sandeep Kumar , Monika Aggarwal

In this paper, we address a statistical model extension of multichannel nonnegative matrix factorization (MNMF) for blind source separation, and we propose a new parameter update algorithm used in the sub-Gaussian model. MNMF employs…

This paper describes several improvements to a new method for signal decomposition that we recently formulated under the name of Differentiable Dictionary Search (DDS). The fundamental idea of DDS is to exploit a class of powerful deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Lukáš Samuel Marták , Rainer Kelz , Gerhard Widmer

Generating expressive and controllable human speech is one of the core goals of generative artificial intelligence, but its progress has long been constrained by two fundamental challenges: the deep entanglement of speech factors and the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Xinyue Yu , Youqing Fang , Pingyu Wu , Guoyang Ye , Wenbo Zhou , Weiming Zhang , Song Xiao

Auscultation provides a rich diversity of information to diagnose cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. However, sound auscultation is challenging due to noise. In this study, a modified version of the affine non-negative matrix…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Yasaman Torabi , Shahram Shirani , James P. Reilly

In this paper, we try to understand neural machine translation (NMT) via simplifying NMT architectures and training encoder-free NMT models. In an encoder-free model, the sums of word embeddings and positional embeddings represent the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Gongbo Tang , Rico Sennrich , Joakim Nivre

Neural machine translation aims at building a single large neural network that can be trained to maximize translation performance. The encoder-decoder architecture with an attention mechanism achieves a translation performance comparable to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Shenjian Zhao , Zhihua Zhang

We propose an end-to-end speech enhancement method with trainable time-frequency~(T-F) transform based on invertible deep neural network~(DNN). The resent development of speech enhancement is brought by using DNN. The ordinary DNN-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Daiki Takeuchi , Kohei Yatabe , Yuma Koizumi , Yasuhiro Oikawa , Noboru Harada

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a popular method for audio spectral unmixing. While NMF is traditionally applied to off-the-shelf time-frequency representations based on the short-time Fourier or Cosine transforms, the ability to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-07 Pierre Ablin , Dylan Fagot , Herwig Wendt , Alexandre Gramfort , Cédric Févotte

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is now a common tool for audio source separation. When learning NMF on large audio databases, one major drawback is that the complexity in time is O(FKN) when updating the dictionary (where (F;N) is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-06-22 Augustin Lefèvre , Francis Bach , Cédric Févotte

Distributed microphone arrays composed of multiple subarrays enable blind source separation over a wide spatial area. Directly applying fast multichannel nonnegative matrix factorization (FastMNMF) to all subarrays can exploit observations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Hirotaka Nishikori , Nobutaka Ito , Kouei Yamaoka , Norihiro Takamune , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Semantic parsing can be defined as the process of mapping natural language sentences into a machine interpretable, formal representation of its meaning. Semantic parsing using LSTM encoder-decoder neural networks have become promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Fabiano Ferreira Luz , Marcelo Finger