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We present a compact, quantization-ready acoustic scene classification (ASC) framework that couples an efficient student network with a learned teacher ensemble and knowledge distillation. The student backbone uses stacked…
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Aiming towards human-level generalization, there is a need to explore adaptable representation learning methods with greater transferability. Most existing approaches independently address task-transferability and cross-domain adaptation,…
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