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Audio classification and restoration are among major downstream tasks in audio signal processing. However, restoration derives less of a benefit from pretrained models compared to the overwhelming success of pretrained models in…

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has proven vital in speech and audio-related applications. The paradigm trains a general model on unlabeled data that can later be used to solve specific downstream tasks. This type of model is costly to train…

Despite its practical importance across a wide range of modalities, recent advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) have been primarily focused on a few well-curated domains, e.g., vision and language, often relying on their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Huiwon Jang , Jihoon Tack , Daewon Choi , Jongheon Jeong , Jinwoo Shin

Self-supervised pre-trained audio networks have seen widespread adoption in real-world systems, particularly in multi-modal large language models. These networks are often employed in a frozen state, under the assumption that the SSL…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Tony Alex , Sara Ahmed , Armin Mustafa , Muhammad Awais , Philip JB Jackson

Audio classification is an important task of mapping audio samples into their corresponding labels. Recently, the transformer model with self-attention mechanisms has been adopted in this field. However, existing audio transformers require…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Ke Chen , Xingjian Du , Bilei Zhu , Zejun Ma , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov

Recently, there has been a vast interest in self-supervised learning (SSL) where the model is pre-trained on large scale unlabeled data and then fine-tuned on a small labeled dataset. The common wisdom is that SSL helps resource-limited…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Chengyi Wang , Yu Wu , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Yao Qian , Kenichi Kumatani , Furu Wei

Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved tremendous success in learning image representation. Despite the empirical success, most self-supervised learning methods are rather "inefficient" learners, typically taking hundreds of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Shengbang Tong , Yubei Chen , Yi Ma , Yann Lecun

Neural networks have demonstrated exceptional performance in supervised learning, benefiting from abundant high-quality annotated data. However, obtaining such data in real-world scenarios is costly and labor-intensive. Semi-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shuai Zhao , Heyan Huang , Xinge Li , Xiaokang Chen , Rui Wang

Improving generalization is a major challenge in audio classification due to labeled data scarcity. Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods tackle this by leveraging unlabeled data to learn useful features for downstream classification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Melikasadat Emami , Dung Tran , Kazuhito Koishida

In state-of-the-art self-supervised learning (SSL) pre-training produces semantically good representations by encouraging them to be invariant under meaningful transformations prescribed from human knowledge. In fact, the property of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Rumen Dangovski , Li Jing , Charlotte Loh , Seungwook Han , Akash Srivastava , Brian Cheung , Pulkit Agrawal , Marin Soljačić

Self-supervised learning (SSL) based speech pre-training has attracted much attention for its capability of extracting rich representations learned from massive unlabeled data. On the other hand, the use of weakly-supervised data is less…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Wangyou Zhang , Yanmin Qian

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

Pre-trained Transformer-based speech models have shown striking performance when fine-tuned on various downstream tasks such as automatic speech recognition and spoken language identification (SLID). However, the problem of domain mismatch…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Mohammed Maqsood Shaik , Dietrich Klakow , Badr M. Abdullah

Transformers have gained increasing popularity in a wide range of applications, including Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision and Speech Recognition, because of their powerful representational capacity. However, harnessing…

Sound event detection (SED) has significantly benefited from self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches, particularly masked audio transformer for SED (MAT-SED), which leverages masked block prediction to reconstruct missing audio segments.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Hyeonuk Nam , Yong-Hwa Park

Advancements in monaural speech enhancement (SE) techniques have greatly improved the perceptual quality of speech. However, integrating these techniques into automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems has not yielded the expected…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Dongning Yang , Wei Wang , Yanmin Qian

Emotion recognition is a challenging task due to limited availability of in-the-wild labeled datasets. Self-supervised learning has shown improvements on tasks with limited labeled datasets in domains like speech and natural language.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Aparna Khare , Srinivas Parthasarathy , Shiva Sundaram

Recent self-supervised learning (SSL) models have proven to learn rich representations of speech, which can readily be utilized by diverse downstream tasks. To understand such utilities, various analyses have been done for speech SSL models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Cheol Jun Cho , Peter Wu , Abdelrahman Mohamed , Gopala K. Anumanchipalli

Multimodal emotion recognition from speech is an important area in affective computing. Fusing multiple data modalities and learning representations with limited amounts of labeled data is a challenging task. In this paper, we explore the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Shamane Siriwardhana , Andrew Reis , Rivindu Weerasekera , Suranga Nanayakkara

Representation learning from unlabeled data has been of major interest in artificial intelligence research. While self-supervised speech representation learning has been popular in the speech research community, very few works have…