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Automatic detection of speaker confidence is critical for adaptive computing but remains constrained by limited labelled data and the subjectivity of paralinguistic annotations. This paper proposes a semi-supervised hybrid framework that…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Adam Wynn , Jingyun Wang

One paradigm for learning from few labeled examples while making best use of a large amount of unlabeled data is unsupervised pretraining followed by supervised fine-tuning. Although this paradigm uses unlabeled data in a task-agnostic way,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Ting Chen , Simon Kornblith , Kevin Swersky , Mohammad Norouzi , Geoffrey Hinton

We propose the application of a semi-supervised learning method to improve the performance of acoustic modelling for automatic speech recognition based on deep neural net- works. As opposed to unsupervised initialisation followed by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-04 Akash Kumar Dhaka , Giampiero Salvi

This paper presents a new approach to identifying and eliminating mislabeled training instances for supervised learning. The goal of this approach is to improve classification accuracies produced by learning algorithms by improving the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-02 C. E. Brodley , M. A. Friedl

Self-supervised learning systems have gained significant attention in recent years by leveraging clustering-based pseudo-labels to provide supervision without the need for human annotations. However, the noise in these pseudo-labels caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Zia-ur-Rehman , Arif Mahmood , Wenxiong Kang

Federated Learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm dealing with decentralized and personal datasets. Since data reside on devices like smartphones and virtual assistants, labeling is entrusted to the clients, or labels are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Vasileios Tsouvalas , Aaqib Saeed , Tanir Ozcelebi

The performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems typically degrades significantly when the training and test data domains are mismatched. In this paper, we show that self-training (ST) combined with an uncertainty-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Sameer Khurana , Niko Moritz , Takaaki Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

Competitive point cloud semantic segmentation results usually rely on a large amount of labeled data. However, data annotation is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task, particularly for three-dimensional point cloud data. Thus,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Puzuo Wang , Wei Yao

In this paper, we present a simple and efficient method for training deep neural networks in a semi-supervised setting where only a small portion of training data is labeled. We introduce self-ensembling, where we form a consensus…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Samuli Laine , Timo Aila

Although state-of-the-art Speech Foundational Models can produce high-quality text pseudo-labels, applying Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) for in-the-wild real-world data remains challenging due to its richer and more complex acoustics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Wen Ding , Fan Qian

In Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), teacher-student (T/S) training has shown to perform well for domain adaptation with small amount of training data. However, adaption without ground-truth labels is still challenging. A previous study…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-08 Rehan Ahmad , Muhammad Umar Farooq , Thomas Hain

Automatic Speech Recognition has been a longstanding research area, with substantial efforts dedicated to integrating semi-supervised learning due to the scarcity of labeled datasets. However, most prior work has focused on improving…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Nune Tadevosyan , Nikolay Karpov , Andrei Andrusenko , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Ante Jukic

In this paper, we propose a novel active learning approach integrated with an improved semi-supervised learning framework to reduce the cost of manual annotation and enhance model performance. Our proposed approach effectively leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Wanli Ma , Oktay Karakus , Paul L. Rosin

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) under weak supervision has attracted increasing research attention as it can significantly reduce the annotation cost. However, labels from weak supervision can be noisy, and the high capacity of DNNs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Dawei Zhu , Xiaoyu Shen , Michael A. Hedderich , Dietrich Klakow

It is an effective way that improves the performance of the existing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems by retraining with more and more new training data in the target domain. Recently, Deep Neural Network (DNN) has become a…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Jiabin Xue , Jiqing Han , Tieran Zheng , Jiaxing Guo , Boyong Wu

Data augmentation is usually used by supervised learning approaches for offline writer identification, but such approaches require extra training data and potentially lead to overfitting errors. In this study, a semi-supervised feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Shiming Chen , Yisong Wang , Chin-Teng Lin , Weiping Ding , Zehong Cao

We summarize the results of a host of efforts using giant automatic speech recognition (ASR) models pre-trained using large, diverse unlabeled datasets containing approximately a million hours of audio. We find that the combination of…

Training deep neural networks requires massive amounts of training data, but for many tasks only limited labeled data is available. This makes weak supervision attractive, using weak or noisy signals like the output of heuristic methods or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Mostafa Dehghani , Aliaksei Severyn , Sascha Rothe , Jaap Kamps

Named Entity Recognition (NER) performance often degrades rapidly when applied to target domains that differ from the texts observed during training. When in-domain labelled data is available, transfer learning techniques can be used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Pierre Lison , Aliaksandr Hubin , Jeremy Barnes , Samia Touileb

While deep learning has been incredibly successful in modeling tasks with large, carefully curated labeled datasets, its application to problems with limited labeled data remains a challenge. The aim of the present work is to improve the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Tyler Lee , Ting Gong , Suchismita Padhy , Andrew Rouditchenko , Anthony Ndirango