Recent work on end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) has shown that the connectionist temporal classification (CTC) loss can be used to convert acoustics to phone or character sequences. Such systems are used with a dictionary and separately-trained Language Model (LM) to produce word sequences. However, they a…
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Paper improves EEG-based speech recognition using CTC and beam search.
problem Improving continuous speech recognition from EEG signals.
method Implemented CTC-based ASR system, initialized weights, used external language model, studied articulatory feature prediction.
result Enhanced performance of EEG-based speech recognition systems.
Because no closed timelike curve (CTC) on a Lorentzian manifold can be deformed to a point, any such manifold containing a CTC must have a topological feature, to be called a timelike wormhole, that prevents the CTC from being deformed to a point. If all wormholes have horizons, which typically seems to be the case in …
We consider the region of closed timelike curves (CTC's) in three-dimensional flat Lorentz spacetimes. The interest in this global geometrical feature goes beyond the purely mathematical. Such spacetimes may be considered lower-dimensional toy models of sourceless Einstein gravity or cosmology. In particular, our inter…
CAT toolkit combines hybrid and E2E approaches for efficient speech recognition.
problem Improving speech recognition efficiency and latency.
method CTC-CRF based framework with contextualized soft forgetting.
result CAT achieves state-of-the-art results with simpler training and streaming ASR.
A new framework improves ASR alignment accuracy via optimal transport.
problem Peaky behavior and alignment inaccuracies in E2E ASR models.
method Differentiable alignment framework based on 1D optimal transport.
result Significant improvement in ASR alignment performance compared to CTC.
We report an extension of a Keras Model, called CTCModel, to perform the Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) in a transparent way. Combined with Recurrent Neural Networks, the Connectionist Temporal Classification is the reference method for dealing with unsegmented input sequences, i.e. with data that are a co…
Paper shows continuous speech recognition with EEG features, no speech input.
problem Continuous speech recognition with limited vocabulary and noisy/no speech input.
method Connectionist temporal classification (CTC) model, EEG features, new deep learning architecture.
result Continuous speech recognition achieved on limited vocabulary with noisy/no speech input.
CAT is a new ASR toolkit using CRF and CTC for state-of-the-art speech recognition.
problem Improving automatic speech recognition systems.
method CRF-based discriminative training with CTC-inspired state topology.
result CAT achieves state-of-the-art results with fewer parameters and is competitive with hybrid models.
Paper proposes an online speech recognition model using Transformer.
problem Challenges in deploying Transformer-based E2E ASR for online speech recognition.
method Chunk self-attention encoder (chunk-SAE) and monotonic truncated attention (MTA) based self-attention decoder (SAD).
result Achieved 23.66% CER with 320 ms latency, significant improvement over offline models.
Improved speech recognition using EEG and video.
problem Enhancing continuous speech recognition systems.
method Implemented a CTC-based ASR model using EEG features.
result EEG features improve continuous visual speech recognition.
This paper improves ASR performance by aligning frames more accurately.
problem Disagreement between teacher-student models in frame-level alignment.
method Introduces self-knowledge distillation (SKD) to guide frame-level alignment.
result Improves both resource efficiency and performance in ASR.
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are effective models for reducing spectral variations and modeling spectral correlations in acoustic features for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Hybrid speech recognition systems incorporating CNNs with Hidden Markov Models/Gaussian Mixture Models (HMMs/GMMs) have achieved the …
Multidimensional recurrent neural networks (MDRNNs) have shown a remarkable performance in the area of speech and handwriting recognition. The performance of an MDRNN is improved by further increasing its depth, and the difficulty of learning the deeper network is overcome by using Hessian-free (HF) optimization. Given…
Continuous speech recognition from brain activity without vocalization.
problem Recognizing silent speech from EEG signals.
method Implemented a CTC ASR model using EEG signals.
result Demonstrated feasibility of EEG for continuous silent speech recognition.
This paper improves speech recognition by distilling knowledge from acoustic models.
problem Improving speech recognition accuracy using ensemble models.
method Proposes multi-teacher distillation strategies for joint CTC-attention end-to-end ASR systems, integrating error rate metric for optimization.
result Reports state-of-the-art error rates on various datasets and languages.
In this work we explored building automatic speech recognition models for transcribing doctor patient conversation. We collected a large scale dataset of clinical conversations ( hr), designed the task to represent the real word scenario, and explored several alignment approaches to iteratively improve data qua…
Keyword spotting--or wakeword detection--is an essential feature for hands-free operation of modern voice-controlled devices. With such devices becoming ubiquitous, users might want to choose a personalized custom wakeword. In this work, we present DONUT, a CTC-based algorithm for online query-by-example keyword spotti…
Improved neural transducer model outperforms attention model on longer sequences.
problem Improving performance of neural transducer models.
method Comparison of training criteria (marginalization vs. maximum approximation), model generalization, and output label topology.
result Final transducer model outperforms attention model by over 6% relative WER on Switchboard 300h.
Causality violations are typically seen as unrealistic and undesirable features of a physical model. The following points out three reasons why causality violations, which Bonnor and Steadman identified even in solutions to the Einstein equation referring to ordinary laboratory situations, are not necessarily undesirab…
CL methods improve monolingual ASR models across new tasks without forgetting past data.
problem Catastrophic Forgetting in monolingual ASR models when adapting to new domains or accents.
method Implement and compare various Continual Learning methods for monolingual ASR.
result Best CL method reduces performance gap by over 40% with minimal past data.
Hybrid and end-to-end models compare in syllable recognition.
problem Comparing hybrid and end-to-end models for syllable recognition.
method Traditional hybrid system (kaldi) vs. end-to-end (TensorFlow) models.
result Hybrid models with explicit syllable knowledge outperform end-to-end models.
Recently, the connectionist temporal classification (CTC) model coupled with recurrent (RNN) or convolutional neural networks (CNN), made it easier to train speech recognition systems in an end-to-end fashion. However in real-valued models, time frame components such as mel-filter-bank energies and the cepstral coeffic…
Neural network generates music scores directly from polyphonic audio.
problem Transcribing music scores directly from polyphonic audio.
method Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network (CRNN) with CTC loss function.
result Model can learn to transcribe scores directly from audio signals.
End-to-end speech recognition using EEG without speech input.
problem Speech recognition without direct speech input.
method Implemented attention model and CTC-based ASR systems for EEG signals; fused EEG with noisy speech features.
result Demonstrated end-to-end speech recognition using EEG signals.
We have recently shown that deep Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent neural networks (RNNs) outperform feed forward deep neural networks (DNNs) as acoustic models for speech recognition. More recently, we have shown that the performance of sequence trained context dependent (CD) hidden Markov model (HMM) acoustic m…
This study provides benchmarks for different implementations of LSTM units between the deep learning frameworks PyTorch, TensorFlow, Lasagne and Keras. The comparison includes cuDNN LSTMs, fused LSTM variants and less optimized, but more flexible LSTM implementations. The benchmarks reflect two typical scenarios for au…
We present Listen, Attend and Spell (LAS), a neural network that learns to transcribe speech utterances to characters. Unlike traditional DNN-HMM models, this model learns all the components of a speech recognizer jointly. Our system has two components: a listener and a speller. The listener is a pyramidal recurrent ne…
Sequence-to-sequence attention-based models on subword units allow simple open-vocabulary end-to-end speech recognition. In this work, we show that such models can achieve competitive results on the Switchboard 300h and LibriSpeech 1000h tasks. In particular, we report the state-of-the-art word error rates (WER) of 3.5…
Connectionist temporal classification (CTC) is widely used for maximum likelihood learning in end-to-end speech recognition models. However, there is usually a disparity between the negative maximum likelihood and the performance metric used in speech recognition, e.g., word error rate (WER). This results in a mismatch…
In this paper we deal with the offline handwriting text recognition (HTR) problem with reduced training datasets. Recent HTR solutions based on artificial neural networks exhibit remarkable solutions in referenced databases. These deep learning neural networks are composed of both convolutional (CNN) and long short-ter…
State-level minimum Bayes risk (sMBR) training has become the de facto standard for sequence-level training of speech recognition acoustic models. It has an elegant formulation using the expectation semiring, and gives large improvements in word error rate (WER) over models trained solely using cross-entropy (CE) or co…
Inspired by recent work on neural network image generation which rely on backpropagation towards the network inputs, we present a proof-of-concept system for speech texture synthesis and voice conversion based on two mechanisms: approximate inversion of the representation learned by a speech recognition neural network,…
We study a multiclass multiple instance learning (MIL) problem where the labels only suggest whether any instance of a class exists or does not exist in a training sample or example. No further information, e.g., the number of instances of each class, relative locations or orders of all instances in a training sample, …
Develops STC for sequential data with missing labels.
problem Learning from partially labeled and unsegmented sequential data.
method Introduces Star Temporal Classification (STC) using a star token and GTN framework.
result Recover most of supervised baseline performance with up to 70% missing labels.
Study combines speaker verification and voice trigger detection in a single network.
problem Separate training for speaker verification and voice trigger detection.
method Multi-task learning with a single network trained on both tasks.
result Single network achieves comparable accuracy to independent models for each task.
RoyalFlush system improves multi-speaker ASR in M2MeT challenge.
problem Improving multi-speaker automatic speech recognition in noisy environments.
method Front-end processing with WPE and beamforming, data augmentation, and fusion of two ASR models.
result 12.22% absolute CER reduction on validation set and 12.11% on test set compared to baseline.
Attention-based encoder decoder network uses a left-to-right beam search algorithm in the inference step. The current beam search expands hypotheses and traverses the expanded hypotheses at the next time step. This traversal is implemented using a for-loop program in general, and it leads to speed down of the recogniti…
Brain2Char decodes text from brain recordings, achieving state-of-the-art performance.
problem Directly decoding text from brain recordings for communication.
method Combines 3D Inception layers, bidirectional recurrent layers, and language model weighted beam search. Uses CTC loss and auxiliary losses for regularization.
result Achieves 10.6%, 8.5%, and 7.0% WER on vocabulary sizes from 1200 to 1900 words.
The paper introduces BCART models for aggregate claim amount, improving frequency-severity and joint modeling.
problem Modeling aggregate claim amount with frequency-severity and joint dependencies.
method Developed three types of BCART models: frequency-severity, sequential, and joint models. Used various distributions for claim severity data.
result Weibull distribution outperforms gamma and lognormal for right-skewed, heavy-tailed claim severity data.
The paper uses model-based trees to create interpretable surrogate models for complex machine learning models.
problem Interpreting complex machine learning models.
method Using model-based trees to partition feature space and create interpretable models.
result Model-based trees generate optimal surrogate models that balance interpretability and performance.
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Gauge Flow Models use a learnable Gauge Field in Generative Flow Models.
problem Improving generative model performance.
method Integrates a learnable Gauge Field into Flow ODEs.
result Gauge Flow Models outperform traditional Flow Models in Flow Matching experiments.
The study examines how model predictions hold up under model extensions.
problem Model predictions may not be robust under model extensions, limiting their applicability.
method The study uses causal ordering to assess robustness of qualitative model predictions and characterizes model extensions that preserve predictions.
result Conditions and techniques are provided to assess robustness of model predictions under model extensions.
MALC combines interpretable linear models with black-box models for better predictions and transparency.
problem Combining interpretability with black-box models for better predictions.
method Formulates MALC as a convex optimization problem and uses accelerated proximal gradient method for training.
result MALC provides an efficient frontier balancing prediction accuracy and transparency.
Revises Bayesian model averaging for foundation models.
problem Ensemble pre-trained and lightly-finetuned foundation models for improved classification performance.
method Introduces trainable linear classifiers and computationally cheaper model averaging scheme (OMA).
result Ensembled models can better predict on various datasets.
Paper introduces symmetric divergence link models for probability distributions.
problem Symmetric divergence measures for probability distributions.
method Two general classes of link models: one for survival functions and another for cumulative probability distribution functions.
result Advantages of symmetric divergence measures over asymmetric measures for model averaging and feature assessment.
New method to handle credit portfolio model uncertainties.
problem Model risk in credit portfolio models.
method Demonstrates comprehensive yet easy-to-implement approach to uncertainty in model parameters.
result Comprehensive method to deal with model uncertainties.
The paper tests stock return models and uses LSTM to predict stock returns.
problem Validating stock return models and predicting stock returns.
method Used Fama-French three-factor, four-factor, and five-factor models; also used LSTM model.
result Fama-French five-factor model shows better validity for stock returns.