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When only limited target domain data is available, domain adaptation could be used to promote performance of deep neural network (DNN) acoustic model by leveraging well-trained source model and target domain data. However, suffering from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-06 Han Zhu , Jiangjiang Zhao , Yuling Ren , Li Wang , Pengyuan Zhang

We presented the Treff adapter, a training-efficient adapter for CLAP, to boost zero-shot classification performance by making use of a small set of labelled data. Specifically, we designed CALM to retrieve the probability distribution of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Jinhua Liang , Xubo Liu , Haohe Liu , Huy Phan , Emmanouil Benetos , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

The performance of automatic speech recognition models often degenerates on domains not covered by the training data. Domain adaptation can address this issue, assuming the availability of the target domain data in the target language.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Han Zhu , Gaofeng Cheng , Qingwei Zhao , Pengyuan Zhang

Conventional end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems rely on paired speech-text data for domain adaptation. Recent LLM-based ASR architectures connect a speech encoder to a large language model via a projection module,…

When adapting large language models (LLMs) to a specific downstream task, two primary approaches are commonly employed: (1) prompt engineering, often with in-context few-shot learning, leveraging the model's inherent generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Jorg Bornschein , Clare Lyle , Yazhe Li , Amal Rannen-Triki , Xu Owen He , Razvan Pascanu

Adapting speaker recognition systems to new environments is a widely-used technique to improve a well-performing model learned from large-scale data towards a task-specific small-scale data scenarios. However, previous studies focus on…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Zhenyu Wang , John H. L. Hansen

While audio quality is a key performance metric for various audio processing tasks, including generative modeling, its objective measurement remains a challenge. Audio-Language Models (ALMs) are pre-trained on audio-text pairs that may…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Soham Deshmukh , Dareen Alharthi , Benjamin Elizalde , Hannes Gamper , Mahmoud Al Ismail , Rita Singh , Bhiksha Raj , Huaming Wang

ASR model deployment environment is ever-changing, and the incoming speech can be switched across different domains during a session. This brings a challenge for effective domain adaptation when only target domain text data is available,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Rao Ma , Xiaobo Wu , Jin Qiu , Yanan Qin , Haihua Xu , Peihao Wu , Zejun Ma

Large audio language models (ALMs) extend LLMs with auditory understanding. A common approach freezes the LLM and trains only an adapter on self-generated targets. However, this fails for reasoning LLMs (RLMs) whose built-in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Petr Grinberg , Hassan Shahmohammadi

The advent of Large Language Models (LLM) has reformed the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). Prompting LLM with audio embeddings to generate transcriptions becomes the new state-of-the-art ASR. Despite LLMs being trained with an extensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yingyi Ma , Zhe Liu , Ozlem Kalinli

Domain adaptation is an important challenge for neural machine translation. However, the traditional fine-tuning solution requires multiple extra training and yields a high cost. In this paper, we propose a non-tuning paradigm, resolving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Zewei Sun , Qingnan Jiang , Shujian Huang , Jun Cao , Shanbo Cheng , Mingxuan Wang

This study aims to guide language model selection by investigating: 1) the necessity of finetuning versus zero-shot usage, 2) the benefits of domain-adjacent versus generic pretrained models, 3) the value of further domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Lovedeep Gondara , Jonathan Simkin , Graham Sayle , Shebnum Devji , Gregory Arbour , Raymond Ng

Large audio-language models (LALMs) exhibit strong zero-shot capabilities in multiple downstream tasks, such as audio question answering (AQA) and abstract reasoning; however, these models still lag behind specialized models for certain…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Videet Mehta , Liming Wang , Hilde Kuehne , Rogerio Feris , James R. Glass , M. Jehanzeb Mirza

Domain adaptation helps transfer the knowledge gained from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. During the past few years, different domain adaptation techniques have been published. One common flaw of these approaches is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Mohammad J. Hashemi , Eric Keller

Recent advances in large language and vision-language models have enabled zero-shot inference, allowing models to solve new tasks without task-specific training. Various adaptation techniques such as prompt engineering, In-Context Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Artyom Gadetsky , Andrei Atanov , Yulun Jiang , Zhitong Gao , Ghazal Hosseini Mighan , Amir Zamir , Maria Brbic

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in zero-shot action recognition by learning to associate video embeddings with class embeddings. However, a significant challenge arises when relying solely on action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yehna Kim , Young-Eun Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

The remarkable advancements in large language models (LLMs) have brought about significant improvements in Natural Language Processing(NLP) tasks. This paper presents a comprehensive review of in-context learning techniques, focusing on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yinheng Li

The recent success of neural machine translation models relies on the availability of high quality, in-domain data. Domain adaptation is required when domain-specific data is scarce or nonexistent. Previous unsupervised domain adaptation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Zi-Yi Dou , Junjie Hu , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Graham Neubig

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are markedly proficient in deriving visual representations guided by natural language. Recent explorations have utilized LVLMs to tackle zero-shot visual anomaly detection (VAD) challenges by pairing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jiaqi Zhu , Shaofeng Cai , Fang Deng , Beng Chin Ooi , Junran Wu

Cutting state monitoring in the milling process is crucial for improving manufacturing efficiency and tool life. Cutting sound detection using machine learning (ML) models, inspired by experienced machinists, can be employed as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Mir Imtiaz Mostafiz , Eunseob Kim , Adrian Shuai Li , Elisa Bertino , Martin Byung-Guk Jun , Ali Shakouri