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Distributed learning and Edge AI necessitate efficient data processing, low-latency communication, decentralized model training, and stringent data privacy to facilitate real-time intelligence on edge devices while reducing dependency on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Lucas Heublein , Simon Kocher , Tobias Feigl , Alexander Rügamer , Christopher Mutschler , Felix Ott

This work examines the content and usefulness of disentangled phone and speaker representations from two separately trained VQ-VAE systems: one trained on multilingual data and another trained on monolingual data. We explore the multi- and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Jennifer Williams , Jason Fong , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi

We present a new generative autoencoder model with dual contradistinctive losses to improve generative autoencoder that performs simultaneous inference (reconstruction) and synthesis (sampling). Our model, named dual contradistinctive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Gaurav Parmar , Dacheng Li , Kwonjoon Lee , Zhuowen Tu

Embracing the deep learning techniques for representation learning in clustering research has attracted broad attention in recent years, yielding a newly developed clustering paradigm, viz. the deep clustering (DC). Typically, the DC models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Shuai Chang

In this paper, we propose a novel model called Learnable VAE (L-VAE), which learns a disentangled representation together with the hyperparameters of the cost function. L-VAE can be considered as an extension of \b{eta}-VAE, wherein the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Hazal Mogultay Ozcan , Sinan Kalkan , Fatos T. Yarman-Vural

Continuous speech representations based on Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional spectrogram or discrete token based features for speech generation and reconstruction. Recent research has…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Changhao Cheng , Wei Wang , Wangyou Zhang , Dongya Jia , Jian Wu , Zhuo Chen , Yanmin Qian

This study tackles unsupervised subword modeling in the zero-resource scenario, learning frame-level speech representation that is phonetically discriminative and speaker-invariant, using only untranscribed speech for target languages.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Siyuan Feng , Tan Lee

Wav2vec-C introduces a novel representation learning technique combining elements from wav2vec 2.0 and VQ-VAE. Our model learns to reproduce quantized representations from partially masked speech encoding using a contrastive loss in a way…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-25 Samik Sadhu , Di He , Che-Wei Huang , Sri Harish Mallidi , Minhua Wu , Ariya Rastrow , Andreas Stolcke , Jasha Droppo , Roland Maas

Evaluating and interpreting latent representations, such as variational autoencoders (VAEs), remains a significant challenge for diverse data types, especially when ground-truth generative factors are unknown. To address this, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-13 Xiaoan Lang , Fang Liu

Most of the prevalent approaches in speech prosody modeling rely on learning global style representations in a continuous latent space which encode and transfer the attributes of reference speech. However, recent work on neural codecs which…

The goal of voice conversion is to transform the speech of a source speaker to sound like that of a reference speaker while preserving the original content. A key challenge is to extract disentangled linguistic content from the source and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Jaehun Kim , Ji-Hoon Kim , Yeunju Choi , Tan Dat Nguyen , Seongkyu Mun , Joon Son Chung

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) provide an attractive solution to image generation problem. However, they tend to produce blurred and over-smoothed images due to their dependence on pixel-wise reconstruction loss. This paper introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Salman H. Khan , Munawar Hayat , Nick Barnes

Disentangling factors of variation has become a very challenging problem on representation learning. Existing algorithms suffer from many limitations, such as unpredictable disentangling factors, poor quality of generated images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Taihong Xiao , Jiapeng Hong , Jinwen Ma

While deep generative models have significantly advanced representation learning, they may inherit or amplify biases and fairness issues by encoding sensitive attributes alongside predictive features. Enforcing strict independence in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chenrui Ma , Xi Xiao , Tianyang Wang , Xiao Wang , Yanning Shen

Unsupervised Multiple Domain Translation is the task of transforming data from one domain to other domains without having paired data to train the systems. Typically, methods based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Antonio Almudévar , Théo Mariotte , Alfonso Ortega , Marie Tahon

Recent research showed that an autoencoder trained with speech of a single speaker, called exemplar autoencoder (eAE), can be used for any-to-one voice conversion (VC). Compared to large-scale many-to-many models such as AutoVC, the eAE…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Weida Liang , Lantian Li , Wenqiang Du , Dong Wang

We would like to learn a representation of the data which decomposes an observation into factors of variation which we can independently control. Specifically, we want to use minimal supervision to learn a latent representation that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Diane Bouchacourt , Ryota Tomioka , Sebastian Nowozin

Recent advancements in Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have enabled the generation of natural and expressive speech from textual input. Accented TTS aims to enhance user experience by making the synthesized speech more relatable to minority…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Jan Melechovsky , Ambuj Mehrish , Berrak Sisman , Dorien Herremans

Adversarial attacks are often considered as threats to the robustness of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Various defending techniques have been developed to mitigate the potential negative impact of adversarial attacks against task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jianzhang Zheng , Fan Yang , Hao Shen , Xuan Tang , Mingsong Chen , Liang Song , Xian Wei

The deployment of machine listening algorithms in real-life applications is often impeded by a domain shift caused for instance by different microphone characteristics. In this paper, we propose a novel domain adaptation strategy based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-27 Jakob Abeßer , Meinard Müller