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Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) surmises that inputs and pairwise positive relationships are enough to learn meaningful representations. Although SSL has recently reached a milestone: outperforming supervised methods in many modalities\dots…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Randall Balestriero , Yann LeCun

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has demonstrated its effectiveness in learning representations through comparison methods that align with human intuition. However, mainstream SSL methods heavily rely on high body datasets with single label,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiale Chen

Learning rich visual representations using contrastive self-supervised learning has been extremely successful. However, it is still a major question whether we could use a similar approach to learn superior auditory representations. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Haider Al-Tahan , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Recent developments in Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) have demonstrated significant potential for Speaker Verification (SV), but closing the performance gap with supervised systems remains an ongoing challenge. SSL frameworks rely on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Theo Lepage , Reda Dehak

In this paper, we propose a simple but powerful unsupervised learning method for speaker recognition, namely Contrastive Equilibrium Learning (CEL), which increases the uncertainty on nuisance factors latent in the embeddings by employing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Sung Hwan Mun , Woo Hyun Kang , Min Hyun Han , Nam Soo Kim

Self-supervised learning (SSL) learns high-quality representations from large pools of unlabeled training data. As datasets grow larger, it becomes crucial to identify the examples that contribute the most to learning such representations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Siddharth Joshi , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Self-supervised visual pretraining has shown significant progress recently. Among those methods, SimCLR greatly advanced the state of the art in self-supervised and semi-supervised learning on ImageNet. The input feature representations for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Dongwei Jiang , Wubo Li , Miao Cao , Wei Zou , Xiangang Li

Sign language recognition (SLR) is a machine learning task aiming to identify signs in videos. Due to the scarcity of annotated data, unsupervised methods like contrastive learning have become promising in this field. They learn meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ariel Basso Madjoukeng , Jérôme Fink , Pierre Poitier , Edith Belise Kenmogne , Benoit Frenay

Standard contrastive learning approaches usually require a large number of negatives for effective unsupervised learning and often exhibit slow convergence. We suspect this behavior is due to the suboptimal selection of negatives used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Anshul Shah , Suvrit Sra , Rama Chellappa , Anoop Cherian

Speaker Recognition is a challenging task with essential applications such as authentication, automation, and security. The SincNet is a new deep learning based model which has produced promising results to tackle the mentioned task. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 João Antônio Chagas Nunes , David Macêdo , Cleber Zanchettin

Last couple of years have witnessed a tremendous progress in self-supervised learning (SSL), the success of which can be attributed to the introduction of useful inductive biases in the learning process to learn meaningful visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Abhishek Jha , Matthew B. Blaschko , Yuki M. Asano , Tinne Tuytelaars

Recent advancements in Deep and Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) have led to substantial improvements in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) performance, reaching unprecedented levels. However, obtaining sufficient amounts of accurately labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Bulat Khaertdinov , Pedro Jeuris , Annanda Sousa , Enrique Hortal

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is a paradigm that leverages unlabeled data for model training. Empirical studies show that SSL can achieve promising performance in distribution shift scenarios, where the downstream and training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Xuyang Zhao , Tianqi Du , Yisen Wang , Jun Yao , Weiran Huang

In recent years, speech-based self-supervised learning (SSL) has made significant progress in various tasks, including automatic speech recognition (ASR). An ASR model with decent performance can be realized by fine-tuning an SSL model with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-30 Zhisheng Zheng , Ziyang Ma , Yu Wang , Xie Chen

Self-supervised learning is a growing paradigm in deep representation learning, showing great generalization capabilities and competitive performance in low-labeled data regimes. The SimCLR framework proposes the NT-Xent loss for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Wilhelm Ågren

In this work, we study the features extracted by English self-supervised learning (SSL) models in cross-lingual contexts and propose a new metric to predict the quality of feature representations. Using automatic speech recognition (ASR) as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Shuyue Stella Li , Beining Xu , Xiangyu Zhang , Hexin Liu , Wenhan Chao , Leibny Paola Garcia

Despite the growing popularity of metric learning approaches, very little work has attempted to perform a fair comparison of these techniques for speaker verification. We try to fill this gap and compare several metric learning loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Juan M. Coria , Hervé Bredin , Sahar Ghannay , Sophie Rosset

Pseudo-labeling is the most adopted method for pre-training automatic speech recognition (ASR) models. However, its performance suffers from the supervised teacher model's degrading quality in low-resource setups and under domain transfer.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Alex Xiao , Christian Fuegen , Abdelrahman Mohamed

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has led to considerable progress in Speaker Verification (SV). The standard framework uses same-utterance positive sampling and data-augmentation to generate anchor-positive pairs of the same speaker. This is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Theo Lepage , Reda Dehak

Self-supervised learning (SSL) for automated speech recognition in terms of its emotional content, can be heavily degraded by the presence noise, affecting the efficiency of modeling the intricate temporal and spectral informative…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Ioannis Ziogas , Hessa Alfalahi , Ahsan H. Khandoker , Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis