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Speaker representation learning is crucial for voice recognition systems, with recent advances in self-supervised approaches reducing dependency on labeled data. Current two-stage iterative frameworks, while effective, suffer from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Danwei Cai , Zexin Cai , Ze Li , Ming Li

Audio-visual speech contains synchronized audio and visual information that provides cross-modal supervision to learn representations for both automatic speech recognition (ASR) and visual speech recognition (VSR). We introduce continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Andrew Rouditchenko , Ronan Collobert , Tatiana Likhomanenko

Self-supervised learning (SSL) learns high-quality representations from large pools of unlabeled training data. As datasets grow larger, it becomes crucial to identify the examples that contribute the most to learning such representations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Siddharth Joshi , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Conventional semi-supervised contrastive learning methods assign pseudo-labels only to samples whose highest predicted class probability exceeds a predefined threshold, and then perform supervised contrastive learning using those selected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Shogo Nakayama , Masahiro Okuda

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) for speaker verification (SV) has drawn increasing interest recently due to its ability to exploit unlabeled data. Performing data augmentation on raw waveforms, such as adding noise or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Chong-Xin Gan , Man-Wai Mak , Weiwei Lin , Jen-Tzung Chien

This paper presents a production Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) pipeline based on the student-teacher framework, which leverages millions of unlabeled examples to improve Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks. We investigate two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Luoxin Chen , Francisco Garcia , Varun Kumar , He Xie , Jianhua Lu

In this paper, we propose a simple but powerful unsupervised learning method for speaker recognition, namely Contrastive Equilibrium Learning (CEL), which increases the uncertainty on nuisance factors latent in the embeddings by employing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Sung Hwan Mun , Woo Hyun Kang , Min Hyun Han , Nam Soo Kim

Recently, masked prediction pre-training has seen remarkable progress in self-supervised learning (SSL) for speech recognition. It usually requires a codebook obtained in an unsupervised way, making it less accurate and difficult to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Chengyi Wang , Yiming Wang , Yu Wu , Sanyuan Chen , Jinyu Li , Shujie Liu , Furu Wei

Disease diagnosis from medical images via supervised learning is usually dependent on tedious, error-prone, and costly image labeling by medical experts. Alternatively, semi-supervised learning and self-supervised learning offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Attiano Purpura-Pontoniere , Demetri Terzopoulos , Adam Wang , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has demonstrated its effectiveness in learning representations through comparison methods that align with human intuition. However, mainstream SSL methods heavily rely on high body datasets with single label,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiale Chen

This paper introduces a semi-supervised contrastive learning framework and its application to text-independent speaker verification. The proposed framework employs generalized contrastive loss (GCL). GCL unifies losses from two different…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Nakamasa Inoue , Keita Goto

Semi-supervised action recognition aims to improve spatio-temporal reasoning ability with a few labeled data in conjunction with a large amount of unlabeled data. Albeit recent advancements, existing powerful methods are still prone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Yu Wang , Sanping Zhou , Kun Xia , Le Wang

Learning from large amounts of unsupervised data and a small amount of supervision is an important open problem in computer vision. We propose a new semi-supervised learning method, Semantic Positives via Pseudo-Labels (SemPPL), that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Matko Bošnjak , Pierre H. Richemond , Nenad Tomasev , Florian Strub , Jacob C. Walker , Felix Hill , Lars Holger Buesing , Razvan Pascanu , Charles Blundell , Jovana Mitrovic

Audio-Visual Source Localization (AVSL) is the task of identifying specific sounding objects in the scene given audio cues. In our work, we focus on semi-supervised AVSL with pseudo-labeling. To address the issues with vanilla hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yuxin Guo , Shijie Ma , Yuhao Zhao , Hu Su , Wei Zou

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) can reduce the need for large labelled datasets by incorporating unlabelled data into the training. This is particularly interesting for semantic segmentation, where labelling data is very costly and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Sebastian Scherer , Robin Schön , Rainer Lienhart

Semi-Supervised Video Paragraph Grounding (SSVPG) aims to localize multiple sentences in a paragraph from an untrimmed video with limited temporal annotations. Existing methods focus on teacher-student consistency learning and video-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yaokun Zhong , Siyu Jiang , Jian Zhu , Jian-Fang Hu

While state-of-the-art contrastive Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) models produce results competitive with their supervised counterparts, they lack the ability to infer latent variables. In contrast, prescribed latent variable (LV) models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jason Ramapuram , Dan Busbridge , Xavier Suau , Russ Webb

Self-supervised learning (SSL)-based speech models are extensively used for full-stack speech processing. However, it has been observed that improving SSL-based speech representations using unlabeled speech for content-related tasks is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Amit Meghanani , Thomas Hain

We introduce Condition-Aware Self-Supervised Learning Representation (CA-SSLR), a generalist conditioning model broadly applicable to various speech-processing tasks. Compared to standard fine-tuning methods that optimize for downstream…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Yen-Ju Lu , Jing Liu , Thomas Thebaud , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Ariya Rastrow , Najim Dehak , Jesus Villalba

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has drawn an increased attention in the field of speech processing. Recent studies have demonstrated that contrastive learning is able to learn discriminative speaker embeddings in a self-supervised manner.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Chunlei Zhang , Dong Yu