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Countless learning tasks require dealing with sequential data. Image captioning, speech synthesis, and music generation all require that a model produce outputs that are sequences. In other domains, such as time series prediction, video…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Zachary C. Lipton , John Berkowitz , Charles Elkan

Recent achievements in end-to-end deep learning have encouraged the exploration of tasks dealing with highly structured data with unified deep network models. Having such models for compressing audio signals has been challenging since it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Daniela N. Rim , Inseon Jang , Heeyoul Choi

Data augmentation is a valuable tool for the design of deep learning systems to overcome data limitations and stabilize the training process. Especially in the medical domain, where the collection of large-scale data sets is challenging and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Mane Margaryan , Matthias Seibold , Indu Joshi , Mazda Farshad , Philipp Fürnstahl , Nassir Navab

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are effective models for reducing spectral variations and modeling spectral correlations in acoustic features for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Hybrid speech recognition systems incorporating CNNs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Ying Zhang , Mohammad Pezeshki , Philemon Brakel , Saizheng Zhang , Cesar Laurent Yoshua Bengio , Aaron Courville

Recent advances in analysis of subband amplitude envelopes of natural sounds have resulted in convincing synthesis, showing subband amplitudes to be a crucial component of perception. Probabilistic latent variable analysis is particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-28 William J. Wilkinson , Joshua D. Reiss , Dan Stowell

Stochastic video prediction models take in a sequence of image frames, and generate a sequence of consecutive future image frames. These models typically generate future frames in an autoregressive fashion, which is slow and requires the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Ananya Kumar , S. M. Ali Eslami , Danilo J. Rezende , Marta Garnelo , Fabio Viola , Edward Lockhart , Murray Shanahan

We introduce nested diffusion models, an efficient and powerful hierarchical generative framework that substantially enhances the generation quality of diffusion models, particularly for images of complex scenes. Our approach employs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xiao Zhang , Ruoxi Jiang , Rebecca Willett , Michael Maire

Sound events often occur in unstructured environments where they exhibit wide variations in their frequency content and temporal structure. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are able to extract higher level features that are invariant to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Emre Çakır , Giambattista Parascandolo , Toni Heittola , Heikki Huttunen , Tuomas Virtanen

This paper introduces an alternative approach to sampling from autoregressive models. Autoregressive models are typically sampled sequentially, according to the transition dynamics defined by the model. Instead, we propose a sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Vivek Jayaram , John Thickstun

Neural audio synthesis methods can achieve high-fidelity and realistic sound generation by utilizing deep generative models. Such models typically rely on external labels which are often discrete as conditioning information to achieve…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yunyi Liu , Craig Jin

Humans excel at discovering regular structures from limited samples and applying inferred rules to novel settings. We investigate whether modern generative models can similarly learn underlying rules from finite samples and perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Binxu Wang , Jiaqi Shang , Haim Sompolinsky

There has been a recent explosion of impressive generative models that can produce high quality images (or videos) conditioned on text descriptions. However, all such approaches rely on conditional sentences that contain unambiguous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Tanzila Rahman , Hsin-Ying Lee , Jian Ren , Sergey Tulyakov , Shweta Mahajan , Leonid Sigal

Generative modeling has recently achieved remarkable success across text, image, and audio domains, demonstrating powerful capabilities for unified representation learning. However, audio generation models still face challenges in terms of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Chengwei Liu , Haoyin Yan , Shaofei Xue , Xiaotao Liang , Yinghao Liu , Zheng Xue , Gang Song , Boyang Zhou

Most sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models are autoregressive; they generate each token by conditioning on previously generated tokens. In contrast, non-autoregressive seq2seq models generate all tokens in one pass, which leads to increased…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Xuezhe Ma , Chunting Zhou , Xian Li , Graham Neubig , Eduard Hovy

We describe a novel approach for generating music using a self-correcting, non-chronological, autoregressive model. We represent music as a sequence of edit events, each of which denotes either the addition or removal of a note---even a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-21 Wayne Chi , Prachi Kumar , Suri Yaddanapudi , Rahul Suresh , Umut Isik

Deep generative models can generate high-fidelity audio conditioned on various types of representations (e.g., mel-spectrograms, Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC)). Recently, such models have been used to synthesize audio waveforms…

Neural network-based vocoders have recently demonstrated the powerful ability to synthesize high-quality speech. These models usually generate samples by conditioning on spectral features, such as Mel-spectrogram and fundamental frequency,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Yunchao He , Yujun Wang

Neural network models for audio tasks, such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) and acoustic scene classification (ASC), are susceptible to noise contamination for real-life applications. To improve audio quality, an enhancement module,…

Neural audio autoencoders create compact latent representations that preserve perceptually important information, serving as the foundation for both modern audio compression systems and generation approaches like next-token prediction and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Dimitrios Bralios , Paris Smaragdis , Jonah Casebeer

In this paper, we propose a style-based conditional video generative model. We introduce a novel temporal generator based on a set of learned sinusoidal bases. Our method learns dynamic representations of various actions that are…

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