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A general problem in acoustic scene classification task is the mismatched conditions between training and testing data, which significantly reduces the performance of the developed methods on classification accuracy. As a countermeasure, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-20 Shayan Gharib , Konstantinos Drossos , Emre Çakir , Dmitriy Serdyuk , Tuomas Virtanen

In this paper, we focus on unsupervised domain adaptation for Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC), where the source domain has a large amount of labeled data, while only unlabeled passages are available in the target domain. To this end, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Huazheng Wang , Zhe Gan , Xiaodong Liu , Jingjing Liu , Jianfeng Gao , Hongning Wang

State-of-the-art speaker recognition systems comprise an x-vector (or i-vector) speaker embedding front-end followed by a probabilistic linear discriminant analysis (PLDA) backend. The effectiveness of these components relies on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Kong Aik Lee , Qiongqiong Wang , Takafumi Koshinaka

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

Deep neural network based speech enhancement approaches aim to learn a noisy-to-clean transformation using a supervised learning paradigm. However, such a trained-well transformation is vulnerable to unseen noises that are not included in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Heqing Zou , Linhui Sun , Eng Siong Chng

Recent domain adaptation methods have demonstrated impressive improvement on unsupervised domain adaptation problems. However, in the semi-supervised domain adaptation (SSDA) setting where the target domain has a few labeled instances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Bingyu Liu , Yuhong Guo , Jieping Ye , Weihong Deng

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have proven to be very successful in automatic speech recognition (ASR). These great improvements have been reported mostly based on highly curated datasets such as LibriSpeech for non-streaming…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Mostafa Karimi , Changliang Liu , Kenichi Kumatani , Yao Qian , Tianyu Wu , Jian Wu

Human language is a combination of elemental languages/domains/styles that change across and sometimes within discourses. Language models, which play a crucial role in speech recognizers and machine translation systems, are particularly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-03-22 Damianos Karakos , Mark Dredze , Sanjeev Khudanpur

The performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems can be significantly compromised by previously unseen conditions, which is typically due to a mismatch between training and testing distributions. In this paper, we address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Wei-Ning Hsu , James Glass

The primary objective of domain adaptation methods is to transfer knowledge from a source domain to a target domain that has similar but different data distributions. Thus, in order to correctly classify the unlabeled target domain samples,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Rohith AP , Ambedkar Dukkipati , Gaurav Pandey

Domain shift is a significant challenge in machine learning, particularly in medical applications where data distributions differ across institutions due to variations in data collection practices, equipment, and procedures. This can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Takumi Okuo , Shinnosuke Matsuo , Shota Harada , Kiyohito Tanaka , Ryoma Bise

Pretrained automatic speech recognition (ASR) models such as Whisper perform well but still need domain adaptation to handle unseen parlance. In many real-world settings, collecting speech data is impractical, necessitating text-only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Akshat Pandey , Karun Kumar , Raphael Tang

We study the problem of choosing algorithm hyper-parameters in unsupervised domain adaptation, i.e., with labeled data in a source domain and unlabeled data in a target domain, drawn from a different input distribution. We follow the…

We consider the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation for image classification. To learn target-domain-aware features from the unlabeled data, we create a self-supervised pretext task by augmenting the unlabeled data with a certain type…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 L. Xiao , J. Xu , D. Zhao , Z. Wang , L. Wang , Y. Nie , B. Dai

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer the knowledge from the labeled source domain to the unlabeled target domain. Existing self-training based UDA approaches assign pseudo labels for target data and treat them as ground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Xiaoqing Guo , Chen Yang , Baopu Li , Yixuan Yuan

Deep learning-based object detectors have shown remarkable improvements. However, supervised learning-based methods perform poorly when the train data and the test data have different distributions. To address the issue, domain adaptation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Seunghyeon Kim , Jaehoon Choi , Taekyung Kim , Changick Kim

Although current face anti-spoofing methods achieve promising results under intra-dataset testing, they suffer from poor generalization to unseen attacks. Most existing works adopt domain adaptation (DA) or domain generalization (DG)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Jingjing Wang , Jingyi Zhang , Ying Bian , Youyi Cai , Chunmao Wang , Shiliang Pu

Recent advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) have combined speech encoders with large language models (LLMs) through projection, forming Speech LLMs with strong performance. However, adapting them to new domains remains…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Yangui Fang , Jing Peng , Xu Li , Yu Xi , Chengwei Zhang , Guohui Zhong , Kai Yu

Despite recent advances, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are still far from perfect. Typical errors include acronyms, named entities, and domain-specific special words for which little or no labeled data is available. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Christian Huber , Alexander Waibel

Text to speech (TTS) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) are two dual tasks in speech processing and both achieve impressive performance thanks to the recent advance in deep learning and large amount of aligned speech and text data.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Yi Ren , Xu Tan , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Zhou Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu