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The success of deep learning comes from its ability to capture the hierarchical structure of data by learning high-level representations defined in terms of low-level ones. In this paper we explore self-supervised learning of hierarchical…

Predictive Coding (PC) is an influential account of cortical learning. Much of recent work has focused on comparing PC to Backpropagation (BP) to find whether PC offers any advantages. Small scale experiments show that PC enables learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Gaspard Oliviers , Elene Lominadze , Rafal Bogacz

Anomaly detection in multi-variate time series (MVTS) data is a huge challenge as it requires simultaneous representation of long term temporal dependencies and correlations across multiple variables. More often, this is solved by breaking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Theivendiram Pranavan , Terence Sim , Arulmurugan Ambikapathi , Savitha Ramasamy

This paper introduces Relative Predictive Coding (RPC), a new contrastive representation learning objective that maintains a good balance among training stability, minibatch size sensitivity, and downstream task performance. The key to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai , Martin Q. Ma , Muqiao Yang , Han Zhao , Louis-Philippe Morency , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Code-Switching (CS) remains a challenge for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), especially character-based models. With the combined choice of characters from multiple languages, the outcome from character-based models suffers from phoneme…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Burin Naowarat , Thananchai Kongthaworn , Korrawe Karunratanakul , Sheng Hui Wu , Ekapol Chuangsuwanich

Feature extraction is crucial for human activity recognition (HAR) using body-worn movement sensors. Recently, learned representations have been used successfully, offering promising alternatives to manually engineered features. Our work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Harish Haresamudram , Irfan Essa , Thomas Ploetz

Large language models (LLMs) often suffer from hallucinations due to error accumulation in autoregressive decoding, where suboptimal early token choices misguide subsequent generation. Although multi-path decoding can improve robustness by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Tianyu Zheng , Hong Wu , Jiaji Zhong

Reliable detection of anomalies is crucial when deploying machine learning models in practice, but remains challenging due to the lack of labeled data. To tackle this challenge, contrastive learning approaches are becoming increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Puck de Haan , Sindy Löwe

Recently, contrastive learning has been shown to be effective in improving pre-trained language models (PLM) to derive high-quality sentence representations. It aims to pull close positive examples to enhance the alignment while push apart…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Kun Zhou , Beichen Zhang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Contrastive predictive coding (CPC) aims to learn representations of speech by distinguishing future observations from a set of negative examples. Previous work has shown that linear classifiers trained on CPC features can accurately…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Benjamin van Niekerk , Leanne Nortje , Matthew Baas , Herman Kamper

The next token prediction loss is the dominant self-supervised training objective for large language models and has achieved promising results in a variety of downstream tasks. However, upon closer investigation of this objective, we find…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zhili Feng , Dhananjay Ram , Cole Hawkins , Aditya Rawal , Jinman Zhao , Sheng Zha

Training objectives based on predictive coding have recently been shown to be very effective at learning meaningful representations from unlabeled speech. One example is Autoregressive Predictive Coding (Chung et al., 2019), which trains an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Yu-An Chung , James Glass

Recent work has shown that, when integrated with adversarial training, self-supervised pre-training can lead to state-of-the-art robustness In this work, we improve robustness-aware self-supervised pre-training by learning representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Ziyu Jiang , Tianlong Chen , Ting Chen , Zhangyang Wang

In this paper, we propose a neural-based coding scheme in which an artificial neural network is exploited to automatically compress and decompress speech signals by a trainable approach. Having a two-stage training phase, the system can be…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Mahmood Yousefi-Azar , Farbod Razzazi

In this work we address disentanglement of style and content in speech signals. We propose a fully convolutional variational autoencoder employing two encoders: a content encoder and a style encoder. To foster disentanglement, we propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-12 Janek Ebbers , Michael Kuhlmann , Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

We propose an end-to-end learned image compression codec wherein the analysis transform is jointly trained with an object classification task. This study affirms that the compressed latent representation can predict human perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Chen-Hsiu Huang , Ja-Ling Wu

Video prediction models often combine three components: an encoder from pixel space to a small latent space, a latent space prediction model, and a generative model back to pixel space. However, the large and unpredictable pixel space makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 T. Barak , Y. Loewenstein

We propose Deep Autoencoding Predictive Components (DAPC) -- a self-supervised representation learning method for sequence data, based on the intuition that useful representations of sequence data should exhibit a simple structure in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Junwen Bai , Weiran Wang , Yingbo Zhou , Caiming Xiong

Contrastive learning relies on constructing a collection of negative examples that are sufficiently hard to discriminate against positive queries when their representations are self-trained. Existing contrastive learning methods either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Qianjiang Hu , Xiao Wang , Wei Hu , Guo-Jun Qi

We present a representation learning framework for financial time series forecasting. One challenge of using deep learning models for finance forecasting is the shortage of available training data when using small datasets. Direct trend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Hanwei Wu , Ather Gattami , Markus Flierl