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Speech separation, the task of isolating multiple speech sources from a mixed audio signal, remains challenging in noisy environments. In this paper, we propose a generative correction method to enhance the output of a discriminative…

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Diffusion models have shown promising results in speech enhancement, using a task-adapted diffusion process for the conditional generation of clean speech given a noisy mixture. However, at test time, the neural network used for score…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Bunlong Lay , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Julius Richter , Timo Gerkmann

The recent surge in popularity of diffusion models for image generation has brought new attention to the potential of these models in other areas of media generation. One area that has yet to be fully explored is the application of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Flavio Schneider

Semantic communications represent a significant breakthrough with respect to the current communication paradigm, as they focus on recovering the meaning behind the transmitted sequence of symbols, rather than the symbols themselves. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 S. Barbarossa , D. Comminiello , E. Grassucci , F. Pezone , S. Sardellitti , P. Di Lorenzo

The rapid development of artificial intelligence has driven smart health with next-generation wireless communication technologies, stimulating exciting applications in remote diagnosis and intervention. To enable a timely and effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Fupei Guo , Hao Zheng , Xiang Zhang , Li Chen , Yue Wang , Songyang Zhang

Token-based language modeling is a prominent approach for speech generation, where tokens are obtained by quantizing features from self-supervised learning (SSL) models and extracting codes from neural speech codecs, generally referred to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Yang Yang , Yunpeng Li , George Sung , Shao-Fu Shih , Craig Dooley , Alessio Centazzo , Ramanan Rajeswaran

Semantic communication has emerged as a new deep learning-based communication paradigm that drives the research of end-to-end data transmission in tasks like image classification, and image reconstruction. However, the security problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Xintian Ren , Jun Wu , Hansong Xu , Qianqian Pan

Diffusion models have recently been shown to be relevant for high-quality speech generation. Most work has been focused on generating spectrograms, and as such, they further require a subsequent model to convert the spectrogram to a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Roi Benita , Michael Elad , Joseph Keshet

We introduce Discernment, a semantic communication system that transmits the meaning of physical signals (baseband radio and audio) over a technical channel using GenAI models operating in discrete spaces. Discernment dynamically adapts to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Silvija Kokalj-Filipovic , Yagna Kaasaragadda

Diffusion-based generative models have recently gained attention in speech enhancement (SE), providing an alternative to conventional supervised methods. These models transform clean speech training samples into Gaussian noise centered at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Jean-Eudes Ayilo , Mostafa Sadeghi , Romain Serizel

Despite significant advancements in traditional syntactic communications based on Shannon's theory, these methods struggle to meet the requirements of 6G immersive communications, especially under challenging transmission conditions. With…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Hang Yin , Li Qiao , Yu Ma , Shuo Sun , Kan Li , Zhen Gao , Dusit Niyato

While deep generative models are showing exciting abilities in computer vision and natural language processing, their adoption in communication frameworks is still far underestimated. These methods are demonstrated to evolve solutions to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Eleonora Grassucci , Jihong Park , Sergio Barbarossa , Seong-Lyun Kim , Jinho Choi , Danilo Comminiello

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art synthesis quality on both visual and audio tasks, and recent works further adapt them to textual data by diffusing on the embedding space. In this paper, we conduct systematic studies of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Zhujin Gao , Junliang Guo , Xu Tan , Yongxin Zhu , Fang Zhang , Jiang Bian , Linli Xu

Diffusion models generate new samples by progressively decreasing the noise from the initially provided random distribution. This inference procedure generally utilizes a trained neural network numerous times to obtain the final output,…

To achieve continuous massive data transmission with significantly reduced data payload, the users can adopt semantic communication techniques to compress the redundant information by transmitting semantic features instead. However, current…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Youcheng Zeng , Xinxin He , Xu Chen , Haonan Tong , Zhaohui Yang , Yijun Guo , Jianjun Hao

Diffusion models that are based on iterative denoising have been recently proposed and leveraged in various generation tasks like image generation. Whereas, as a way inherently built for continuous data, existing diffusion models still have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jiaao Chen , Aston Zhang , Mu Li , Alex Smola , Diyi Yang

In real-life conversations, the content is diverse, and there exists the one-to-many problem that requires diverse generation. Previous studies attempted to introduce discrete or Gaussian-based continuous latent variables to address the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jianxiang Xiang , Zhenhua Liu , Haodong Liu , Yin Bai , Jia Cheng , Wenliang Chen

Recent advances in deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (DJSCC) have shown promise for end-to-end semantic image transmission. However, most existing schemes primarily focus on optimizing pixel-wise metrics, which often fail to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Pujing Yang , Guangyi Zhang , Yunlong Cai

In this paper, we address the problem of single-microphone speech separation in the presence of ambient noise. We propose a generative unsupervised technique that directly models both clean speech and structured noise components, training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Yochai Yemini , Rami Ben-Ari , Sharon Gannot , Ethan Fetaya

Diffusion models have shown exceptional scaling properties in the image synthesis domain, and initial attempts have shown similar benefits for applying diffusion to unconditional text synthesis. Denoising diffusion models attempt to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Matthew Baas , Kevin Eloff , Herman Kamper