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Language models such as GPT-2 have performed well on constructing syntactically sound sentences for text auto-completion task. However, such models often require considerable training effort to adapt to specific writing domains (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Dong-Ho Lee , Zhiqiang Hu , Roy Ka-Wei Lee

Language model based pre-trained models such as BERT have provided significant gains across different NLP tasks. In this paper, we study different types of transformer based pre-trained models such as auto-regressive models (GPT-2),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Varun Kumar , Ashutosh Choudhary , Eunah Cho

In this paper, we explore the use of pre-trained language models to learn sentiment information of written texts for speech sentiment analysis. First, we investigate how useful a pre-trained language model would be in a 2-step pipeline…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Suwon Shon , Pablo Brusco , Jing Pan , Kyu J. Han , Shinji Watanabe

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) models can synthesize natural human speech when trained on large amounts of transcribed speech. However, collecting such large-scale transcribed data is expensive. This paper proposes an unsupervised pre-training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Seongyeon Park , Myungseo Song , Bohyung Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh

Unsupervised pre-training and transfer learning are commonly used techniques to initialize training algorithms for neural networks, particularly in settings with limited labeled data. In this paper, we study the effects of unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-12 Taj Jones-McCormick , Aukosh Jagannath , Subhabrata Sen

Pre-training large-scale neural language models on raw texts has made a significant contribution to improving transfer learning in natural language processing (NLP). With the introduction of transformer-based language models, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Shoya Wada , Toshihiro Takeda , Shiro Manabe , Shozo Konishi , Jun Kamohara , Yasushi Matsumura

Self-supervised pre-training using unlabeled data is widely used in automatic speech recognition. In this paper, we propose a new self-supervised pre-training approach to dealing with heterogeneous data. Instead of mixing all the data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Xiaodong Cui , A F M Saif , Brian Kingsbury , Tianyi Chen

For high-resource languages like English, text classification is a well-studied task. The performance of modern NLP models easily achieves an accuracy of more than 90% in many standard datasets for text classification in English (Xie et…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Dawei Zhu , Michael A. Hedderich , Fangzhou Zhai , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Dietrich Klakow

Natural language processing (NLP) enables the understanding and generation of meaningful human language, typically using a pre-trained complex architecture on a large dataset to learn the language and next fine-tune its weights to implement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Yarden Tzach , Ronit D. Gross , Ella Koresh , Shalom Rosner , Or Shpringer , Tal Halevi , Ido Kanter

While modern Transformer-based language models (LMs) have achieved major success in multi-task generalization, they often struggle to capture long-range dependencies within their context window. This work introduces a novel approach using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Alok N. Shah , Khush Gupta , Keshav Ramji , Pratik Chaudhari

Obtaining text datasets with semantic annotations is an effortful process, yet crucial for supervised training in natural language processsing (NLP). In general, developing and applying new NLP pipelines in domain-specific contexts for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Johann Frei , Frank Kramer

Most advances in medical image recognition supporting clinical auxiliary diagnosis meet challenges due to the low-resource situation in the medical field, where annotations are highly expensive and professional. This low-resource problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Fudan Zheng , Jindong Cao , Weijiang Yu , Zhiguang Chen , Nong Xiao , Yutong Lu

Supervised machine learning provides state-of-the-art solutions to a wide range of computer vision problems. However, the need for copious labelled training data limits the capabilities of these algorithms in scenarios where such input is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 András Kalapos , Bálint Gyires-Tóth

During the pre-training step of natural language models, the main objective is to learn a general representation of the pre-training dataset, usually requiring large amounts of textual data to capture the complexity and diversity of natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Tobias Deußer , Cong Zhao , Wolfgang Krämer , David Leonhard , Christian Bauckhage , Rafet Sifa

The paradigm of representation learning through transfer learning has the potential to greatly enhance clinical natural language processing. In this work, we propose a multi-task pre-training and fine-tuning approach for learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Yuqi Si , Elmer V Bernstam , Kirk Roberts

Pre-training has shown success in different areas of machine learning, such as Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and medical imaging. However, it has not been fully explored for clinical data analysis. An immense amount of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Chantal Pellegrini , Nassir Navab , Anees Kazi

The GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) language models are an artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology that enables automatic text generation. There is a growing interest in applying GPT language models to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Manuel de Buenaga , Francisco Javier Bueno

Speech representations learned from Self-supervised learning (SSL) models can benefit various speech processing tasks. However, utilizing SSL representations usually requires fine-tuning the pre-trained models or designing task-specific…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Kai-Wei Chang , Wei-Cheng Tseng , Shang-Wen Li , Hung-yi Lee

Self-supervised learning of speech representations has been a very active research area but most work is focused on a single domain such as read audio books for which there exist large quantities of labeled and unlabeled data. In this…

Self-supervised pre-training appears as an advantageous alternative to supervised pre-trained for transfer learning. By synthesizing annotations on pretext tasks, self-supervision allows to pre-train models on large amounts of pseudo-labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Levy Chaves , Alceu Bissoto , Eduardo Valle , Sandra Avila