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An autoencoder (AE) is a neural network that, using self-supervised training, learns a succinct parameterized representation, and a corresponding encoding and decoding process, for all instances in a given class. Here, we introduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Assaf Marron , Smadar Szekely , Irun Cohen , David Harel

Learning sentence embeddings often requires a large amount of labeled data. However, for most tasks and domains, labeled data is seldom available and creating it is expensive. In this work, we present a new state-of-the-art unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Kexin Wang , Nils Reimers , Iryna Gurevych

With parallelizable attention networks, the neural Transformer is very fast to train. However, due to the auto-regressive architecture and self-attention in the decoder, the decoding procedure becomes slow. To alleviate this issue, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Biao Zhang , Deyi Xiong , Jinsong Su

We show that a Modular Neural Network (MNN) can combine various speech enhancement modules, each of which is a Deep Neural Network (DNN) specialized on a particular enhancement job. Differently from an ordinary ensemble technique that…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Minje Kim

Modern systems for automatic speech recognition, including the RNN-Transducer and Attention-based Encoder-Decoder (AED), are designed so that the encoder is not required to alter the time-position of information from the audio sequence into…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Adam Stooke , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Khe Chai Sim , Pedro Moreno Mengibar

This paper studies a simple extension of image-based Masked Autoencoders (MAE) to self-supervised representation learning from audio spectrograms. Following the Transformer encoder-decoder design in MAE, our Audio-MAE first encodes audio…

Masked Autoencoder (MAE) has demonstrated superior performance on various vision tasks via randomly masking image patches and reconstruction. However, effective data augmentation strategies for MAE still remain open questions, different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Kai Chen , Zhili Liu , Lanqing Hong , Hang Xu , Zhenguo Li , Dit-Yan Yeung

Detecting anomalies for multivariate time-series without manual supervision continues a challenging problem due to the increased scale of dimensions and complexity of today's IT monitoring systems. Recent progress of unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Qinfeng Xiao , Shikuan Shao , Jing Wang

In this work, we examine the impact of inter-patch dependencies in the decoder of masked autoencoders (MAE) on representation learning. We decompose the decoding mechanism for masked reconstruction into self-attention between mask tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Letian Fu , Long Lian , Renhao Wang , Baifeng Shi , Xudong Wang , Adam Yala , Trevor Darrell , Alexei A. Efros , Ken Goldberg

Unsupervised multivariate time series (MTS) representation learning aims to extract compact and informative representations from raw sequences without relying on labels, enabling efficient transfer to diverse downstream tasks. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yi Xu , Yitian Zhang , Yun Fu

Medical vision-and-language pre-training provides a feasible solution to extract effective vision-and-language representations from medical images and texts. However, few studies have been dedicated to this field to facilitate medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Zhihong Chen , Yuhao Du , Jinpeng Hu , Yang Liu , Guanbin Li , Xiang Wan , Tsung-Hui Chang

Universal language representation is the holy grail in machine translation (MT). Thanks to the new neural MT approach, it seems that there are good perspectives towards this goal. In this paper, we propose a new architecture based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Carlos Escolano , Marta R. Costa-jussà , José A. R. Fonollosa

The manual annotation for large-scale point clouds is still tedious and unavailable for many harsh real-world tasks. Self-supervised learning, which is used on raw and unlabeled data to pre-train deep neural networks, is a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Junsheng Zhou , Xin Wen , Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Yue Gao , Yi Fang , Zhizhong Han

We present Universal Sparse Autoencoders (USAEs), a framework for uncovering and aligning interpretable concepts spanning multiple pretrained deep neural networks. Unlike existing concept-based interpretability methods, which focus on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Harrish Thasarathan , Julian Forsyth , Thomas Fel , Matthew Kowal , Konstantinos G. Derpanis

Masked auto-encoder pre-training has emerged as a prevalent technique for initializing and enhancing dense retrieval systems. It generally utilizes additional Transformer decoder blocks to provide sustainable supervision signals and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Guangyuan Ma , Xing Wu , Zijia Lin , Songlin Hu

Inferring emotion status from users' queries plays an important role to enhance the capacity in voice dialogues applications. Even though several related works obtained satisfactory results, the performance can still be further improved. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Zefang Zong , Hao Li , Qi Wang

We consider the task of unsupervised extraction of meaningful latent representations of speech by applying autoencoding neural networks to speech waveforms. The goal is to learn a representation able to capture high level semantic content…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Jan Chorowski , Ron J. Weiss , Samy Bengio , Aäron van den Oord

This paper shows that masked autoencoders (MAE) are scalable self-supervised learners for computer vision. Our MAE approach is simple: we mask random patches of the input image and reconstruct the missing pixels. It is based on two core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Kaiming He , Xinlei Chen , Saining Xie , Yanghao Li , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

In this work, we propose a Multi-Window Masked Autoencoder (MW-MAE) fitted with a novel Multi-Window Multi-Head Attention (MW-MHA) module that facilitates the modelling of local-global interactions in every decoder transformer block through…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Sarthak Yadav , Sergios Theodoridis , Lars Kai Hansen , Zheng-Hua Tan

In this paper, we propose a bidimensional attention based recursive autoencoder (BattRAE) to integrate clues and sourcetarget interactions at multiple levels of granularity into bilingual phrase representations. We employ recursive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Biao Zhang , Deyi Xiong , Jinsong Su