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Unsupervised and self-supervised learning methods have leveraged unlabelled data to improve the pretrained models. However, these methods need significantly large amount of unlabelled data and the computational cost of training models with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Utkarsh Chauhan , Vikas Joshi , Rupesh R. Mehta

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has shown promise in learning representations of audio that are useful for automatic speech recognition (ASR). But, training SSL models like wav2vec~2.0 requires a two-stage pipeline. In this paper we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Chaitanya Talnikar , Tatiana Likhomanenko , Ronan Collobert , Gabriel Synnaeve

Recent advances in unsupervised representation learning have demonstrated the impact of pretraining on large amounts of read speech. We adapt these techniques for domain adaptation in low-resource -- both in terms of data and compute --…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Chak-Fai Li , Francis Keith , William Hartmann , Matthew Snover

We present a neural semi-supervised learning model termed Self-Pretraining. Our model is inspired by the classic self-training algorithm. However, as opposed to self-training, Self-Pretraining is threshold-free, it can potentially update…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Payam Karisani , Negin Karisani

Learning music representations that are general-purpose offers the flexibility to finetune several downstream tasks using smaller datasets. The wav2vec 2.0 speech representation model showed promising results in many downstream speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Alessandro Ragano , Emmanouil Benetos , Andrew Hines

State-of-the-art speaker verification systems are inherently dependent on some kind of human supervision as they are trained on massive amounts of labeled data. However, manually annotating utterances is slow, expensive and not scalable to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Théo Lepage , Réda Dehak

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

Recent advancements in Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) have shown promising results in Speaker Verification (SV). However, narrowing the performance gap with supervised systems remains an ongoing challenge. Several studies have observed that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Victor Miara , Theo Lepage , Reda Dehak

Recent Vision-based Large Language Models~(VisionLLMs) for autonomous driving have seen rapid advancements. However, such promotion is extremely dependent on large-scale high-quality annotated data, which is costly and labor-intensive. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Chaoqun Wang , Jie Yang , Xiaobin Hong , Ruimao Zhang

As unlabeled data carry rich task-relevant information, they are proven useful for few-shot learning of language model. The question is how to effectively make use of such data. In this work, we revisit the self-training technique for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Yiming Chen , Yan Zhang , Chen Zhang , Grandee Lee , Ran Cheng , Haizhou Li

Self-supervised pretraining has been observed to be effective at improving feature representations for transfer learning, leveraging large amounts of unlabelled data. This review summarizes recent research into its usage in X-ray, computed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Blake VanBerlo , Jesse Hoey , Alexander Wong

We present a method for transferring pre-trained self-supervised (SSL) speech representations to multiple languages. There is an abundance of unannotated speech, so creating self-supervised representations from raw audio and fine-tuning on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Samuel Kessler , Bethan Thomas , Salah Karout

Active learning is a paradigm aimed at reducing the annotation effort by training the model on actively selected informative and/or representative samples. Another paradigm to reduce the annotation effort is self-training that learns from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Javad Zolfaghari Bengar , Joost van de Weijer , Bartlomiej Twardowski , Bogdan Raducanu

Human language can be expressed in either written or spoken form, i.e. text or speech. Humans can acquire knowledge from text to improve speaking and listening. However, the quest for speech pre-trained models to leverage unpaired text has…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Duo Ma , Xianghu Yue , Junyi Ao , Xiaoxue Gao , Haizhou Li

Recent success in speech representation learning enables a new way to leverage unlabeled data to train speech recognition model. In speech representation learning, a large amount of unlabeled data is used in a self-supervised manner to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Shaoshi Ling , Yuzong Liu

A deep Transformer model with good evaluation score does not mean each subnetwork (a.k.a transformer block) learns reasonable representation. Diagnosing abnormal representation and avoiding it can contribute to achieving a better evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Liu Chen , Meysam Asgari

Scaling up weakly-supervised datasets has shown to be highly effective in the image-text domain and has contributed to most of the recent state-of-the-art computer vision and multimodal neural networks. However, existing large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Vladislav Lialin , Stephen Rawls , David Chan , Shalini Ghosh , Anna Rumshisky , Wael Hamza

We propose an approach for pre-training speech representations via a masked reconstruction loss. Our pre-trained encoder networks are bidirectional and can therefore be used directly in typical bidirectional speech recognition models. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-07 Weiran Wang , Qingming Tang , Karen Livescu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a powerful tool that allows learning of underlying representations from unlabeled data. Transformer based models such as wav2vec 2.0 and HuBERT are leading the field in the speech domain. Generally these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Bethan Thomas , Samuel Kessler , Salah Karout

Semi-supervised learning provides a solution to reduce the dependency of machine learning on labeled data. As one of the efficient semi-supervised techniques, self-training (ST) has received increasing attention. Several advancements have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Jifeng Guo , Zhulin Liu , Tong Zhang , C. L. Philip Chen