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In this study, we aim to explore efficient tuning methods for speech self-supervised learning. Recent studies show that self-supervised learning (SSL) can learn powerful representations for different speech tasks. However, fine-tuning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Zih-Ching Chen , Chin-Lun Fu , Chih-Ying Liu , Shang-Wen Li , Hung-yi Lee

To understand why self-supervised learning (SSL) models have empirically achieved strong performances on several speech-processing downstream tasks, numerous studies have focused on analyzing the encoded information of the SSL layer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Jialu Li , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Nancy L. McElwain

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods targeting scene images have seen a rapid growth recently, and they mostly rely on either a dedicated dense matching mechanism or a costly unsupervised object discovery module. This paper shows that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Ke Zhu , Minghao Fu , Jianxin Wu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful technique for learning rich representations from unlabeled data. The data representations are able to capture many underlying attributes of data, and be useful in downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Weicheng Zhu , Sheng Liu , Carlos Fernandez-Granda , Narges Razavian

Self-supervised models for speech representation learning now see widespread use for their versatility and performance on downstream tasks, but the effect of model architecture on the linguistic information learned in their representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Robin Huo , Ewan Dunbar

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved great success in speech-related tasks. While Transformer and Conformer architectures have dominated SSL backbones, encoders like Zipformer, which excel in automatic speech recognition (ASR),…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Yifan Yang , Jianheng Zhuo , Zengrui Jin , Ziyang Ma , Xiaoyu Yang , Zengwei Yao , Liyong Guo , Wei Kang , Fangjun Kuang , Long Lin , Daniel Povey , Xie Chen

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has allowed substantial progress in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) performance in low-resource settings. In this context, it has been demonstrated that larger self-supervised feature extractors are crucial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Salah Zaiem , Robin Algayres , Titouan Parcollet , Slim Essid , Mirco Ravanelli

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models have shown exceptional capabilities across various speech-processing tasks. Continuous SSL representations are effective but suffer from high computational and storage demands. On the other hand,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shih-heng Wang , Jiatong Shi , Chien-yu Huang , Shinji Watanabe , Hung-yi Lee

Recent innovations in self-supervised representation learning have led to remarkable advances in natural language processing. That said, in the speech processing domain, self-supervised representation learning-based systems are not yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Hagai Aronowitz , Itai Gat , Edmilson Morais , Weizhong Zhu , Ron Hoory

Recent advances in self-supervised speech models have shown significant improvement in many downstream tasks. However, these models predominantly centered on frame-level training objectives, which can fall short in spoken language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Hung-Chieh Fang , Nai-Xuan Ye , Yi-Jen Shih , Puyuan Peng , Hsuan-Fu Wang , Layne Berry , Hung-yi Lee , David Harwath

Self-supervised pre-trained speech models were shown effective for various downstream speech processing tasks. Since they are mainly pre-trained to map input speech to pseudo-labels, the resulting representations are only effective for the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Jingru Lin , Meng Ge , Wupeng Wang , Haizhou Li , Mengling Feng

Recent years have witnessed significant advancements in self-supervised learning (SSL) methods for speech-processing tasks. Various speech-based SSL models have been developed and present promising performance on a range of downstream tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Guanrou Yang , Ziyang Ma , Zhisheng Zheng , Yakun Song , Zhikang Niu , Xie Chen

In recent years, self-supervised learning (SSL) frameworks have been extensively applied to sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) in order to learn deep representations without data annotations. While SSL frameworks reach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Bulat Khaertdinov , Stylianos Asteriadis

The performance of deep learning models depends significantly on their capacity to encode input features efficiently and decode them into meaningful outputs. Better input and output representation has the potential to boost models'…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Ahmed Adel Attia , Yashish M. Siriwardena , Carol Espy-Wilson

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

Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) has demonstrated strong performance in speaker recognition, even if the pre-training objective is designed for speech recognition. In this paper, we study which factor leads to the success of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Chengyi Wang , Shujie Liu , Zhuo Chen , Peidong Wang , Gang Liu , Jinyu Li , Jian Wu , Xiangzhan Yu , Furu Wei

Incorporating heterogeneous representations from different architectures has facilitated various vision tasks, e.g., some hybrid networks combine transformers and convolutions. However, complementarity between such heterogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Zhong-Yu Li , Bo-Wen Yin , Yongxiang Liu , Li Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng

Increasing model size when pretraining natural language representations often results in improved performance on downstream tasks. However, at some point further model increases become harder due to GPU/TPU memory limitations and longer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Zhenzhong Lan , Mingda Chen , Sebastian Goodman , Kevin Gimpel , Piyush Sharma , Radu Soricut

Self-supervised learning (SSL), which utilizes the input data itself for representation learning, has achieved state-of-the-art results for various downstream speech tasks. However, most of the previous studies focused on offline…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-11 Zili Huang , Zhuo Chen , Naoyuki Kanda , Jian Wu , Yiming Wang , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka , Xiaofei Wang , Peidong Wang

Self-supervised speech representation learning aims to extract meaningful factors from the speech signal that can later be used across different downstream tasks, such as speech and/or emotion recognition. Existing models, such as HuBERT,…