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Recently, direct modeling of raw waveforms using deep neural networks has been widely studied for a number of tasks in audio domains. In speaker verification, however, utilization of raw waveforms is in its preliminary phase, requiring…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-18 Jee-weon Jung , Hee-Soo Heo , Ju-ho Kim , Hye-jin Shim , Ha-Jin Yu

Various sources have reported the WaveNet deep learning architecture being able to generate high-quality speech, but to our knowledge there haven't been studies on the interpretation or visualization of trained WaveNets. This study…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Kanru Hua

Denoising generative models, such as diffusion and flow-based models, produce high-quality samples but require many denoising steps due to discretization error. Flow maps, which estimate the average velocity between timesteps, mitigate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Kyungmin Lee , Sihyun Yu , Jinwoo Shin

Limited by inference latency, existing robot manipulation policies lack sufficient real-time interaction capability with the environment. Although faster generation methods such as flow matching are gradually replacing diffusion methods,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zhenchen Dong , Jinna Fu , Jiaming Wu , Shengyuan Yu , Fulin Chen , Yide Liu

Recent progress in deep learning for audio synthesis opens the way to models that directly produce the waveform, shifting away from the traditional paradigm of relying on vocoders or MIDI synthesizers for speech or music generation. Despite…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Alexandre Défossez , Neil Zeghidour , Nicolas Usunier , Léon Bottou , Francis Bach

Large language models show that simple autoregressive training can yield scalable and coherent generation, but extending this paradigm to speech remains challenging due to the entanglement of semantic and acoustic information. Most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Luca Della Libera , Cem Subakan , Mirco Ravanelli

Modern diffusion/flow-based models for image generation typically exhibit two core characteristics: (i) using multi-step sampling, and (ii) operating in a latent space. Recent advances have made encouraging progress on each aspect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yiyang Lu , Susie Lu , Qiao Sun , Hanhong Zhao , Zhicheng Jiang , Xianbang Wang , Tianhong Li , Zhengyang Geng , Kaiming He

Music generation aims to create music segments that align with human aesthetics based on diverse conditional information. Despite advancements in generating music from specific textual descriptions (e.g., style, genre, instruments), the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Jiahao Song , Yuzhao Wang

We present a new approach and a novel architecture, termed WSNet, for learning compact and efficient deep neural networks. Existing approaches conventionally learn full model parameters independently and then compress them via ad hoc…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Xiaojie Jin , Yingzhen Yang , Ning Xu , Jianchao Yang , Nebojsa Jojic , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan

Generative models that can model and predict sequences of future events can, in principle, learn to capture complex real-world phenomena, such as physical interactions. However, a central challenge in video prediction is that the future is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Manoj Kumar , Mohammad Babaeizadeh , Dumitru Erhan , Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine , Laurent Dinh , Durk Kingma

Generative modeling has recently achieved remarkable success across image, video, and audio domains, demonstrating powerful capabilities for unified representation learning. Yet speech front-end tasks such as speech enhancement (SE), target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Ziqian Wang , Zikai Liu , Yike Zhu , Xingchen Li , Boyi Kang , Jixun Yao , Xianjun Xia , Chuanzeng Huang , Lei Xie

WaveNet is a state-of-the-art text-to-speech vocoder that remains challenging to deploy due to its autoregressive loop. In this work we focus on ways to accelerate the original WaveNet architecture directly, as opposed to modifying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Sam Davis , Giuseppe Coccia , Sam Gooch , Julian Mack

Flow Matching (FM) is a simulation-free method for learning a continuous and invertible flow to interpolate between two distributions, and in particular to generate data from noise. Inspired by the variational nature of the diffusion…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-14 Chen Xu , Xiuyuan Cheng , Yao Xie

Deep learning approaches for beat and downbeat tracking have brought advancements. However, these approaches continue to rely on hand-crafted, subsampled spectral features as input, restricting the information available to the model. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 Christian J. Steinmetz , Joshua D. Reiss

Significant efforts are being invested to bring state-of-the-art classification and recognition to edge devices with extreme resource constraints (memory, speed, and lack of GPU support). Here, we demonstrate the first deep network for…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Md Mohaimenuzzaman , Christoph Bergmeir , Ian Thomas West , Bernd Meyer

Recent progress in flow-based generative models and reinforcement learning (RL) has improved text-image alignment and visual quality. However, current RL training for flow models still has two main problems: (i) GRPO-style fixed per-prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kaijie Chen , Zhiyang Xu , Ying Shen , Zihao Lin , Yuguang Yao , Lifu Huang

Significant progress has been made for estimating optical flow using deep neural networks. Advanced deep models achieve accurate flow estimation often with a considerable computation complexity and time-consuming training processes. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Lingtong Kong , Jie Yang

Estimating three-dimensional conformations of a molecular graph allows insight into the molecule's biological and chemical functions. Fast generation of valid conformations is thus central to molecular modeling. Recent advances in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Sohil Atul Shah , Vladlen Koltun

Recent advances in visually-induced audio generation are based on sampling short, low-fidelity, and one-class sounds. Moreover, sampling 1 second of audio from the state-of-the-art model takes minutes on a high-end GPU. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Vladimir Iashin , Esa Rahtu

Neural waveform models such as WaveNet have demonstrated better performance than conventional vocoders for statistical parametric speech synthesis. As an autoregressive (AR) model, WaveNet is limited by a slow sequential waveform generation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Xin Wang , Shinji Takaki , Junichi Yamagishi