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Generalized end-to-end (GE2E) model is widely used in speaker verification (SV) fields due to its expandability and generality regardless of specific languages. However, the long-short term memory (LSTM) based on GE2E has two limitations:…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-17 Hyeonmook Park , Jungbae Park , Sang Wan Lee

Existing generative adversarial networks (GANs) for speech enhancement solely rely on the convolution operation, which may obscure temporal dependencies across the sequence input. To remedy this issue, we propose a self-attention layer…

The modeling of high-dimensional spatio-temporal processes presents a fundamental dichotomy between the probabilistic rigor of classical geostatistics and the flexible, high-capacity representations of deep learning. While Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yuri Calleo

Deep learning approaches have been widely used in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and they have achieved a significant accuracy improvement. Especially, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been revisited in ASR recently. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Yisen Wang , Xuejiao Deng , Songbai Pu , Zhiheng Huang

Current state-of-the-art neural machine translation (NMT) uses a deep multi-head self-attention network with no explicit phrase information. However, prior work on statistical machine translation has shown that extending the basic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Jie Hao , Xing Wang , Shuming Shi , Jinfeng Zhang , Zhaopeng Tu

Recently, there has been increasing progress in end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) architecture, which transcribes speech to text without any pre-trained alignments. One popular end-to-end approach is the hybrid Connectionist…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Haoran Miao , Gaofeng Cheng , Pengyuan Zhang , Yonghong Yan

This paper presents an overview and evaluation of some of the end-to-end ASR models on long-form audios. We study three categories of Automatic Speech Recognition(ASR) models based on their core architecture: (1) convolutional, (2)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Nithin Rao Koluguri , Samuel Kriman , Georgy Zelenfroind , Somshubra Majumdar , Dima Rekesh , Vahid Noroozi , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

In this paper, we propose the Self-Attention Generative Adversarial Network (SAGAN) which allows attention-driven, long-range dependency modeling for image generation tasks. Traditional convolutional GANs generate high-resolution details as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-18 Han Zhang , Ian Goodfellow , Dimitris Metaxas , Augustus Odena

Scores from traditional confidence classifiers (CCs) in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems lack universal interpretation and vary with updates to the underlying confidence or acoustic models (AMs). In this work, we build…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-02 Amber Afshan , Kshitiz Kumar , Jian Wu

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in end-to-end speech recognition that directly transcribes speech to text without any predefined alignments. One approach is the attention-based encoder-decoder framework that learns a mapping…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Suyoun Kim , Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe

Continual learning for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems poses a challenge, especially with the need to avoid catastrophic forgetting while maintaining performance on previously learned tasks. This paper introduces a novel approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Geoffrey Tyndall , Kurniawati Azizah , Dipta Tanaya , Ayu Purwarianti , Dessi Puji Lestari , Sakriani Sakti

Long-context modeling is crucial for next-generation language models, yet the high computational cost of standard attention mechanisms poses significant computational challenges. Sparse attention offers a promising direction for improving…

Sentiment Analysis has seen much progress in the past two decades. For the past few years, neural network approaches, primarily RNNs and CNNs, have been the most successful for this task. Recently, a new category of neural networks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Artaches Ambartsoumian , Fred Popowich

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with channel-wise feature refining mechanisms have brought noticeable benefits to modelling channel dependencies. However, current attention paradigms fail to infer an optimal channel…

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Sequential self-attention models usually rely on additive positional embeddings, which inject positional information into item representations at the input. In the absence of positional signals, the attention block is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Timur Nabiev , Evgeny Frolov

Autoregressive (AR) Transformer-based sequence models are known to have difficulty generalizing to sequences longer than those seen during training. When applied to text-to-speech (TTS), these models tend to drop or repeat words or produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Eric Battenberg , RJ Skerry-Ryan , Daisy Stanton , Soroosh Mariooryad , Matt Shannon , Julian Salazar , David Kao

The present paper proposes generalized Gaussian kernel adaptive filtering, where the kernel parameters are adaptive and data-driven. The Gaussian kernel is parametrized by a center vector and a symmetric positive definite (SPD) precision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Tomoya Wada , Kosuke Fukumori , Toshihisa Tanaka , Simone Fiori

Recent end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems demonstrated the ability to outperform conventional hybrid DNN/ HMM ASR. Aside from architectural improvements in those systems, those models grew in terms of depth, parameters…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Ludwig Kürzinger , Dominik Winkelbauer , Lujun Li , Tobias Watzel , Gerhard Rigoll

Recent developments in natural language processing (NLP) have highlighted the need for substantial amounts of data for models to capture textual information accurately. This raises concerns regarding the computational resources and time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Roxana Petcu , Subhadeep Maji

Sparse attention reduces the quadratic complexity of full self-attention but faces two challenges: (1) an attention gap, where applying sparse attention to full-attention-trained models causes performance degradation due to train-inference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zhenyi Shen , Junru Lu , Lin Gui , Jiazheng Li , Yulan He , Di Yin , Xing Sun