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With the development of deep learning, neural network-based speech enhancement (SE) models have shown excellent performance. Meanwhile, it was shown that the development of self-supervised pre-trained models can be applied to various…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-29 Xiao-Ying Zhao , Qiu-Shi Zhu , Jie Zhang

Pre-trained models are nowadays a fundamental component of machine learning research. In continual learning, they are commonly used to initialize the model before training on the stream of non-stationary data. However, pre-training is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Andrea Cossu , Tinne Tuytelaars , Antonio Carta , Lucia Passaro , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Davide Bacciu

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has shown rapid advances in recent years but still degrades significantly in far-field and noisy environments. The recent development of self-supervised learning (SSL) technology can improve the ASR…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Changfeng Gao , Gaofeng Cheng , Pengyuan Zhang

We propose noise-robust voice conversion (VC) which takes into account the recording quality and environment of noisy source speech. Conventional denoising training improves the noise robustness of a VC model by learning noisy-to-clean VC…

Unsupervised pre-training is now the predominant approach for both text and speech understanding. Self-attention models pre-trained on large amounts of unannotated data have been hugely successful when fine-tuned on downstream tasks from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Ankur Bapna , Yu-an Chung , Nan Wu , Anmol Gulati , Ye Jia , Jonathan H. Clark , Melvin Johnson , Jason Riesa , Alexis Conneau , Yu Zhang

We present two approaches that use unlabeled data to improve sequence learning with recurrent networks. The first approach is to predict what comes next in a sequence, which is a conventional language model in natural language processing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Andrew M. Dai , Quoc V. Le

In this paper, we investigate the use of adversarial learning for unsupervised adaptation to unseen recording conditions, more specifically, single microphone far-field speech. We adapt neural networks based acoustic models trained with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-31 Pavel Denisov , Ngoc Thang Vu , Marc Ferras Font

A significant challenge in sound event detection (SED) is the effective utilization of unlabeled data, given the limited availability of labeled data due to high annotation costs. Semi-supervised algorithms rely on labeled data to learn…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Pengfei Cai , Yan Song , Nan Jiang , Qing Gu , Ian McLoughlin

Traditionally, research in automated speech recognition has focused on local-first encoding of audio representations to predict the spoken phonemes in an utterance. Unfortunately, approaches relying on such hyper-local information tend to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-19 David M. Chan , Shalini Ghosh , Debmalya Chakrabarty , Björn Hoffmeister

In self-supervised learning, it is challenging to reduce the gap between the enhancement performance on the estimated and target speech signals with existed pre-tasks. In this paper, we propose a multi-task pre-training method to improve…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-02 Yi Li , Yang Sun , Syed Mohsen Naqvi

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) suffers from performance degradation in noisy conditions. To address this issue, we propose a novel adversarial learning framework that incorporates noise-disentanglement to establish a noise-independent…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Xujiang Xing , Mingxing Xu , Thomas Fang Zheng

Conformal prediction is a powerful distribution-free tool for uncertainty quantification, establishing valid prediction intervals with finite-sample guarantees. To produce valid intervals which are also adaptive to the difficulty of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Nabeel Seedat , Alan Jeffares , Fergus Imrie , Mihaela van der Schaar

Recent work has shown that language models' refusal behavior is primarily encoded in a single direction in their latent space, making it vulnerable to targeted attacks. Although Latent Adversarial Training (LAT) attempts to improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Alexandra Abbas , Nora Petrova , Helios Ael Lyons , Natalia Perez-Campanero

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) aims at detecting speech segments on an audio signal, which is a necessary first step for many today's speech based applications. Current state-of-the-art methods focus on training a neural network exploiting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Sina Alisamir , Fabien Ringeval , Francois Portet

Collecting large-scale datasets is crucial for training deep models, annotating the data, however, inevitably yields noisy labels, which poses challenges to deep learning algorithms. Previous efforts tend to mitigate this problem via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Yuanpeng Tu , Boshen Zhang , Yuxi Li , Liang Liu , Jian Li , Jiangning Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Cai Rong Zhao

In this study, we investigated whether self-supervised pretraining could produce a neural network feature extractor applicable to multiple classification tasks in B-mode lung ultrasound analysis. When fine-tuning on three lung ultrasound…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Blake VanBerlo , Brian Li , Jesse Hoey , Alexander Wong

Transformer-based models attain excellent results and generalize well when trained on sufficient amounts of data. However, constrained by the limited data available in the audio domain, most transformer-based models for audio tasks are…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Dading Chong , Helin Wang , Peilin Zhou , Qingcheng Zeng

Recent work has demonstrated that neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. To escape from the predicament, many works try to harden the model in various ways, in which adversarial training is an effective way which learns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Kejiang Chen , Hang Zhou , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaofeng Mao , Yuhong Li , Yuan He , Hui Xue , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Recently, self-supervised learning methods based on masked latent prediction have proven to encode input data into powerful representations. However, during training, the learned latent space can be further transformed to extract…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Aurian Quelennec , Pierre Chouteau , Geoffroy Peeters , Slim Essid

The objective of this paper is self-supervised learning from video, in particular for representations for action recognition. We make the following contributions: (i) We propose a new architecture and learning framework Memory-augmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Tengda Han , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman