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Achieving superior enhancement performance while maintaining a low parameter count and computational complexity remains a challenge in the field of speech enhancement. In this paper, we introduce LORT, a novel architecture that integrates…

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The performance of relation extraction models has increased considerably with the rise of neural networks. However, a key issue of neural relation extraction is robustness: the models do not scale well to long sentences with multiple…

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Self-attention network, an attention-based feedforward neural network, has recently shown the potential to replace recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in a variety of NLP tasks. However, it is not clear if the self-attention network could be a…

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For a speech-enhancement algorithm, it is highly desirable to simultaneously improve perceptual quality and recognition rate. Thanks to computational costs and model complexities, it is challenging to train a model that effectively…

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