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Low-resource languages (LRLs) often lack high-quality, large-scale datasets for training effective text embedding models, hindering their application in tasks like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search. In this work, we…

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In the recent years end to end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have achieved promising results given sufficient resources. Even for languages where not a lot of labelled data is available, state of the art E2E ASR systems…

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Pseudo-labeling is a commonly used paradigm in semi-supervised learning, yet its application to semi-supervised regression (SSR) remains relatively under-explored. Unlike classification, where pseudo-labels are discrete and confidence-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Xueqing Sun , Renzhen Wang , Quanziang Wang , Yichen Wu , Xixi Jia , Deyu Meng

Existing datasets for manually labelled query-based video summarization are costly and thus small, limiting the performance of supervised deep video summarization models. Self-supervision can address the data sparsity challenge by using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Jia-Hong Huang , Luka Murn , Marta Mrak , Marcel Worring

Fine tuning self supervised pretrained models using pseudo labels can effectively improve speech recognition performance. But, low quality pseudo labels can misguide decision boundaries and degrade performance. We propose a simple yet…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zezhong Jin , Dading Zhong , Xiao Song , Zhaoyi Liu , Naipeng Ye , Qingcheng Zeng

We address the problem of efficient acoustic-model refinement (continuous retraining) using semi-supervised and active learning for a low resource Indian language, wherein the low resource constraints are having i) a small labeled corpus…

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The cross-domain performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) could be severely hampered due to the mismatch between training and testing distributions. Since the target domain usually lacks labeled data, and domain shifts exist at…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Han Zhu , Gaofeng Cheng , Jindong Wang , Wenxin Hou , Pengyuan Zhang , Yonghong Yan

Semi-supervised learning leverages unlabeled data to enhance model performance, addressing the limitations of fully supervised approaches. Among its strategies, pseudo-supervision has proven highly effective, typically relying on one or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Negin Ghamsarian , Sahar Nasirihaghighi , Klaus Schoeffmann , Raphael Sznitman

While deep learning based end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have greatly simplified modeling pipelines, they suffer from the data sparsity issue. In this work, we propose a self-training method with an end-to-end system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-31 Yang Chen , Weiran Wang , Chao Wang

Large-scale audio tagging datasets inevitably contain imperfect labels, such as clip-wise annotated (temporally weak) tags with no exact on- and offsets, due to a high manual labeling cost. This work proposes pseudo strong labels (PSL), a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Heinrich Dinkel , Zhiyong Yan , Yongqing Wang , Junbo Zhang , Yujun Wang

In recent years, semi-supervised learning (SSL) has shown tremendous success in leveraging unlabeled data to improve the performance of deep learning models, which significantly reduces the demand for large amounts of labeled data. Many SSL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Song-Bo Yang , Tian-li Yu

The Audio-Visual Video Parsing task aims to identify and temporally localize the events that occur in either or both the audio and visual streams of audible videos. It often performs in a weakly-supervised manner, where only video event…

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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

Building a multilingual Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) system in a linguistically diverse country like India can be a challenging task due to the differences in scripts and the limited availability of speech data. This problem can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Kaousheik Jayakumar , Vrunda N. Sukhadia , A Arunkumar , S. Umesh

Scaling up weakly-supervised datasets has shown to be highly effective in the image-text domain and has contributed to most of the recent state-of-the-art computer vision and multimodal neural networks. However, existing large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Vladislav Lialin , Stephen Rawls , David Chan , Shalini Ghosh , Anna Rumshisky , Wael Hamza

We present a novel data-efficient semi-supervised framework to improve the generalization of image captioning models. Constructing a large-scale labeled image captioning dataset is an expensive task in terms of labor, time, and cost. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Dong-Jin Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh , Jinsoo Choi , In So Kweon

Recent advances in semi-supervised learning (SSL) demonstrate that a combination of consistency regularization and pseudo-labeling can effectively improve image classification accuracy in the low-data regime. Compared to classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Yuliang Zou , Zizhao Zhang , Han Zhang , Chun-Liang Li , Xiao Bian , Jia-Bin Huang , Tomas Pfister

Semi-supervised learning through pseudo-labeling has become a staple of state-of-the-art monolingual speech recognition systems. In this work, we extend pseudo-labeling to massively multilingual speech recognition with 60 languages. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Loren Lugosch , Tatiana Likhomanenko , Gabriel Synnaeve , Ronan Collobert

The scarcity of high-quality annotated data presents a significant challenge in developing effective end-to-end speech-to-text translation (ST) systems, particularly for low-resource languages. This paper explores the hypothesis that weakly…

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