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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

Supervised learning demands large amounts of precisely annotated data to achieve promising results. Such data curation is labor-intensive and imposes significant overhead regarding time and costs. Self-supervised learning (SSL) partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Thangarajah Akilan , Nusrat Jahan , Wandong Zhang

Recently, the usage of speech self-supervised models (SSL) for downstream tasks has been drawing a lot of attention. While large pre-trained models commonly outperform smaller models trained from scratch, questions regarding the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Daria Diatlova , Anton Udalov , Vitalii Shutov , Egor Spirin

Self-supervised learning (SSL) proficiency in speech-related tasks has driven research into utilizing discrete tokens for speech tasks like recognition and translation, which offer lower storage requirements and great potential to employ…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-15 Yifan Yang , Feiyu Shen , Chenpeng Du , Ziyang Ma , Kai Yu , Daniel Povey , Xie Chen

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models reshaped our approach to speech, language and vision. However their huge size and the opaque relations between their layers and tasks result in slow inference and network overthinking, where predictions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Dan Berrebbi , Brian Yan , Shinji Watanabe

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has garnered significant attention in speech processing, excelling in linguistic tasks such as speech recognition. However, jointly improving the performance of pre-trained models on various downstream tasks,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Tianrui Wang , Jin Li , Ziyang Ma , Rui Cao , Xie Chen , Longbiao Wang , Meng Ge , Xiaobao Wang , Yuguang Wang , Jianwu Dang , Nyima Tashi

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently allowed leveraging large datasets of unlabeled speech signals to reach impressive performance on speech tasks using only small amounts of annotated data. The high number of proposed approaches…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Salah Zaiem , Youcef Kemiche , Titouan Parcollet , Slim Essid , Mirco Ravanelli

Audio self-supervised learning (SSL) pre-training, which aims to learn good representations from unlabeled audio, has made remarkable progress. However, the extensive computational demands during pre-training pose a significant barrier to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Wenxi Chen , Yuzhe Liang , Ziyang Ma , Zhisheng Zheng , Xie Chen

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is crucial for real-world applications, especially in data-hungry domains such as healthcare and self-driving cars. In addition to a lack of labeled data, these applications also suffer from distributional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Ha Manh Bui , Iliana Maifeld-Carucci

Self-supervised learning (SSL) speech models, which can serve as powerful upstream models to extract meaningful speech representations, have achieved unprecedented success in speech representation learning. However, their effectiveness on…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Tung-Yu Wu , Chen-An Li , Tzu-Han Lin , Tsu-Yuan Hsu , Hung-Yi Lee

Recently, masked image modeling (MIM), an important self-supervised learning (SSL) method, has drawn attention for its effectiveness in learning data representation from unlabeled data. Numerous studies underscore the advantages of MIM,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jiantao Wu , Shentong Mo , Sara Atito , Zhenhua Feng , Josef Kittler , Muhammad Awais

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 gained traction for its ability to learn rich representations with low labeling costs, applicable across diverse downstream tasks. However, assessing the downstream-task performance remains challenging due…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Takashi Maekaku , Keita Goto , Jinchuan Tian , Yusuke Shinohara , Shinji Watanabe

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has witnessed great progress with various improvements in the self-training framework with pseudo labeling. The main challenge is how to distinguish high-quality pseudo labels against the confirmation bias.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Siyuan Li , Weiyang Jin , Zedong Wang , Fang Wu , Zicheng Liu , Cheng Tan , Stan Z. Li

Speech enhancement and separation are two fundamental tasks for robust speech processing. Speech enhancement suppresses background noise while speech separation extracts target speech from interfering speakers. Despite a great number of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Zili Huang , Shinji Watanabe , Shu-wen Yang , Paola Garcia , Sanjeev Khudanpur

We investigate the utility of in-domain self-supervised pre-training of vision models in the analysis of remote sensing imagery. Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising approach for remote sensing image classification due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Ivica Dimitrovski , Ivan Kitanovski , Nikola Simidjievski , Dragi Kocev

Recent studies have shown that the benefits provided by self-supervised pre-training and self-training (pseudo-labeling) are complementary. Semi-supervised fine-tuning strategies under the pre-training framework, however, remain…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Bowen Zhang , Songjun Cao , Xiaoming Zhang , Yike Zhang , Long Ma , Takahiro Shinozaki

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models like Wav2Vec2, HuBERT, and WavLM have been widely used in speech processing. These transformer-based models consist of multiple layers, each capturing different levels of representation. While prior…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Xinyu Liang , Fredrik Cumlin , Victor Ungureanu , Chandan K. A. Reddy , Christian Schuldt , Saikat Chatterjee

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has led to great strides in speech processing. However, the resources needed to train these models has become prohibitively large as they continue to scale. Currently, only a few groups with substantial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 William Chen , Xuankai Chang , Yifan Peng , Zhaoheng Ni , Soumi Maiti , Shinji Watanabe

SUPERB was proposed to evaluate the generalizability of self-supervised learning (SSL) speech models across various tasks. However, it incurs high computational costs due to the large datasets and diverse tasks. In this paper, we introduce…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Yu-Hsiang Wang , Huang-Yu Chen , Kai-Wei Chang , Winston Hsu , Hung-yi Lee