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Many real-world applications require making multiple predictions from the same text. Fine-tuning a large pre-trained language model for each downstream task causes computational burdens in the inference time due to several times of forward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Kuan-Hao Huang , Liang Tan , Rui Hou , Sinong Wang , Amjad Almahairi , Ruty Rinott

The state of the art on many NLP tasks is currently achieved by large pre-trained language models, which require a considerable amount of computation. We explore a setting where many different predictions are made on a single piece of text.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Jingfei Du , Myle Ott , Haoran Li , Xing Zhou , Veselin Stoyanov

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods which learn representations of data without explicit supervision have gained popularity in speech-processing tasks, particularly for single-talker applications. However, these models often have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Zili Huang , Desh Raj , Paola García , Sanjeev Khudanpur

The paper demonstrate that simple adjustments of the fine-tuning recipes of multimodal large language models (MLLM) are sufficient to mitigate catastrophic forgetting. On visual question answering, we design a 2x2 experimental framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 He Li , Yuhui Zhang , Xiaohan Wang , Kaifeng Lyu , Serena Yeung-Levy

End-to-end speech recognition is a promising technology for enabling compact automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems since it can unify the acoustic and language model into a single neural network. However, as a drawback, training of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yotaro Kubo , Shigeki Karita , Michiel Bacchiani

Transformer-based large language models exhibit in-context learning, enabling adaptation to downstream tasks via few-shot prompting with demonstrations. In practice, such models are often fine-tuned to improve zero-shot performance on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Chungpa Lee , Jy-yong Sohn , Kangwook Lee

Nowadays, attention models are one of the popular candidates for speech recognition. So far, many studies mainly focus on the encoder structure or the attention module to enhance the performance of these models. However, mostly ignore the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Tobias Watzel , Ludwig Kürzinger , Lujun Li , Gerhard Rigoll

During the pre-training step of natural language models, the main objective is to learn a general representation of the pre-training dataset, usually requiring large amounts of textual data to capture the complexity and diversity of natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Tobias Deußer , Cong Zhao , Wolfgang Krämer , David Leonhard , Christian Bauckhage , Rafet Sifa

Employing pre-trained language models (LM) to extract contextualized word representations has achieved state-of-the-art performance on various NLP tasks. However, applying this technique to noisy transcripts generated by automatic speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Chao-Wei Huang , Yun-Nung Chen

Speech representations learned from Self-supervised learning (SSL) models can benefit various speech processing tasks. However, utilizing SSL representations usually requires fine-tuning the pre-trained models or designing task-specific…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Kai-Wei Chang , Wei-Cheng Tseng , Shang-Wen Li , Hung-yi Lee

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has been able to leverage unlabeled data to boost the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) models when we have access to only a small amount of transcribed speech data. However, this raises the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Reem Gody , David Harwath

Recent Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) methods are able to learn feature representations that are invariant to different data augmentations, which can then be transferred to downstream tasks of interest. However, different downstream tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Chen Huang , Hanlin Goh , Jiatao Gu , Josh Susskind

Self-supervised learning has emerged as a powerful approach for leveraging large-scale unlabeled data to improve model performance in various domains. In this paper, we explore masked self-supervised pre-training for text recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Martin Kišš , Michal Hradiš

Building a good speech recognition system usually requires large amounts of transcribed data, which is expensive to collect. To tackle this problem, many unsupervised pre-training methods have been proposed. Among these methods, Masked…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Dongwei Jiang , Wubo Li , Ruixiong Zhang , Miao Cao , Ne Luo , Yang Han , Wei Zou , Xiangang Li

Background and objective: Employing deep learning models in critical domains such as medical imaging poses challenges associated with the limited availability of training data. We present a strategy for improving the performance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Eva Pachetti , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris , Sara Colantonio

While the transformer has emerged as the eminent neural architecture, several independent lines of research have emerged to address its limitations. Recurrent neural approaches have observed a lot of renewed interest, including the extended…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Sarthak Yadav , Sergios Theodoridis , Zheng-Hua Tan

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their remarkable capabilities across various language tasks. Inspired by the success of text-to-text translation refinement, this paper investigates how LLMs can improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Huaixia Dou , Xinyu Tian , Xinglin Lyu , Jie Zhu , Junhui Li , Lifan Guo

Continual learning in large language models (LLMs) is prone to catastrophic forgetting, where adapting to new tasks significantly degrades performance on previously learned ones. Existing methods typically rely on low-rank,…

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) traditionally assumes known domains, but adding data from a new domain raises concerns about computational inefficiencies linked to retraining models on both existing and new domains. Fine-tuning solely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Devang Kulshreshtha , Saket Dingliwal , Brady Houston , Nikolaos Pappas , Srikanth Ronanki

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for learning flexible speech representations from unlabeled data. By designing pretext tasks that exploit statistical regularities, SSL models can capture useful…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Yusuf Brima , Ulf Krumnack , Simone Pika , Gunther Heidemann