Neural network based architectures used for sound recognition are usually adapted from other application domains such as image recognition, which may not harness the time-frequency representation of a signal. The ConditionaL Neural Networks (CLNN) and its extension the Masked ConditionaL Neural Networks (MCLNN) are des…
The ConditionaL Neural Networks (CLNN) and the Masked ConditionaL Neural Networks (MCLNN) exploit the nature of multi-dimensional temporal signals. The CLNN captures the conditional temporal influence between the frames in a window and the mask in the MCLNN enforces a systematic sparseness that follows a filterbank-lik…
Deep neural network architectures designed for application domains other than sound, especially image recognition, may not optimally harness the time-frequency representation when adapted to the sound recognition problem. In this work, we explore the ConditionaL Neural Network (CLNN) and the Masked ConditionaL Neural N…
AaSP improves audio self-supervised learning by addressing aliasing issues.
problem Alias issues in audio spectrogram transformers.
method AaSP combines aliasing-aware patch representation, teacher-student masked modeling, cross-attention predictor, and contrastive regularization.
result AaSP learns more stable representations that integrate high-frequency cues.
Automatic feature extraction using neural networks has accomplished remarkable success for images, but for sound recognition, these models are usually modified to fit the nature of the multi-dimensional temporal representation of the audio signal in spectrograms. This may not efficiently harness the time-frequency repr…
TimeVQVAE-AD detects anomalies in time series data with high accuracy and provides explainable results.
problem Detecting and explaining anomalies in time series data accurately.
method Masked latent generative modeling in time-frequency domain.
result TimeVQVAE-AD outperforms existing methods in anomaly detection and explainability.
The ConditionaL Neural Network (CLNN) exploits the nature of the temporal sequencing of the sound signal represented in a spectrogram, and its variant the Masked ConditionaL Neural Network (MCLNN) induces the network to learn in frequency bands by embedding a filterbank-like sparseness over the network's links using a …
Deep learning based speech enhancement and source separation systems have recently reached unprecedented levels of quality, to the point that performance is reaching a new ceiling. Most systems rely on estimating the magnitude of a target source by estimating a real-valued mask to be applied to a time-frequency represe…
SpecAugment improves speech recognition with simple feature augmentation.
problem Improving automatic speech recognition accuracy.
method Applying warping, frequency channel masking, and time step masking to feature inputs of neural networks.
result Achieved state-of-the-art performance on LibriSpeech and Switchboard tasks.
We propose a new blind source separation algorithm based on mixtures of alpha-stable distributions. Complex symmetric alpha-stable distributions have been recently showed to better model audio signals in the time-frequency domain than classical Gaussian distributions thanks to their larger dynamic range. However, infer…
Novel bio-inspired masking for robust speech emotion recognition.
problem Noise degradation in speech emotion recognition.
method Cochlear cepstrogram-based contrastive learning with temporal and frequency masking.
result Improved speech emotion recognition performance on K-EmoCon benchmark.
We apply a fast kernel method for mask-based single-channel speech enhancement. Specifically, our method solves a kernel regression problem associated to a non-smooth kernel function (exponential power kernel) with a highly efficient iterative method (EigenPro). Due to the simplicity of this method, its hyper-parameter…
This paper improves multichannel speech enhancement using complex ratio masking and channel-attention.
problem Limited performance of deep learning methods in multichannel speech enhancement.
method Introduces complex ratio masking and channel-attention mechanism inside a U-Net architecture.
result Demonstrates superior performance on the CHiME-3 dataset.
SKI speeds up Toeplitz Neural Networks by avoiding explicit decay bias and using frequency response.
problem Efficiently compute and update Toeplitz matrices in neural networks.
method Sparse plus low-rank decomposition, asymmetric SKI, frequency response modeling.
result Achieved significant speedup with minimal performance loss.
This study proposes a trainable adaptive window switching (AWS) method and apply it to a deep-neural-network (DNN) for speech enhancement in the modified discrete cosine transform domain. Time-frequency (T-F) mask processing in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT)-domain is a typical speech enhancement method. To re…
Neural network based architectures used for sound recognition are usually adapted from other application domains, which may not harness sound related properties. The ConditionaL Neural Network (CLNN) is designed to consider the relational properties across frames in a temporal signal, and its extension the Masked Condi…
Radio frequency (RF) sensors are used alongside other sensing modalities to provide rich representations of the world. Given the high variability of complex-valued target responses, RF systems are susceptible to attacks masking true target characteristics from accurate identification. In this work, we evaluate differen…
Isolating individual instruments in a musical mixture has a myriad of potential applications, and seems imminently achievable given the levels of performance reached by recent deep learning methods. While most musical source separation techniques learn an independent model for each instrument, we propose using a common…
This paper proposes an end-to-end approach for single-channel speaker-independent multi-speaker speech separation, where time-frequency (T-F) masking, the short-time Fourier transform (STFT), and its inverse are represented as layers within a deep network. Previous approaches, rather than computing a loss on the recons…
A new method integrates Fourier basis expansion and mapping for improved time series forecasting.
problem Inconsistent starting cycles and series length issues in Fourier-based methods.
method Fourier Basis Mapping (FBM) method that integrates time-frequency features through Fourier basis expansion and mapping.
result FBM addresses inconsistencies and preserves temporal characteristics, achieving SOTA performance.
Framework improves marine mammal monitoring in noisy underwater environments.
problem Underwater bioacoustic monitoring challenges due to overlapping calls and variable noise.
method Multi-step attention-guided framework with segmentation and mid-level fusion.
result Improved signal discrimination, reduced false positives, reliable representations.
Researchers developed a generic model to account for structural variability in SHM.
problem Variability in natural frequency due to operational and environmental conditions limits SHM technologies.
method An overlapping mixture of Gaussian processes (OMGP) was used to generate a generic representation of normal condition.
result The OMGP model provided a generic representation (form) to characterise the normal condition of structures.
FMix improves model performance by distorting learned functions without distorting data distribution.
problem Improving model robustness and generalization performance in mixed sample data augmentation.
method Proposes FMix, an MSDA using random binary masks generated from Fourier space.
result FMix outperforms MixUp and CutMix, achieving state-of-the-art results on CIFAR-10.
PMI-Masking improves MLM pretraining by masking correlated spans efficiently.
problem Uniform token masking leads to inefficient and suboptimal performance in MLMs.
method PMI-Masking uses Pointwise Mutual Information to mask n-grams with high collocation.
result PMI-Masking reaches half the training time and improves performance.
Deep learning models compare performance on Limit Order Book tasks.
problem Comparing Deep Learning models for High Frequency Trading.
method Reviewed and compared state-of-the-art models on the same dataset.
result Multilayer Perceptrons perform comparably to CNN-LSTM architectures.
A new loss function for VAEs improves image quality and efficiency.
problem Training VAEs to generate realistic images requires a loss function that reflects human perception.
method Based on Watson's perceptual model, the loss function computes a weighted distance in frequency space, accounts for luminance and contrast masking, and is extended to color images.
result VAEs trained with the new loss function generated high-quality, less blurry images with fewer artifacts and less computational resources.
A new unsupervised method separates speech sources without requiring labeled data.
problem Lack of supervised data for effective neural source separation.
method Uses a complex Gaussian mixture model (cGMM) for joint training of separation and localization networks.
result The method outperforms conventional initialization methods in monaural and multichannel separation.
ST-MTM models complex time series by decomposing and masking seasonal and trend components.
problem Forecasting complex time series with intricate temporal variations.
method Seasonal-Trend Decomposition with Masking and Contrastive Learning.
result ST-MTM achieves superior forecasting performance compared to existing methods.
Expands MLM by masking token positions, improving performance and convergence.
problem Improving language model performance and convergence.
method Masking token positions along with [MASK] tokens, using a fully connected classifier stage.
result Shows .3% improvement and 50% faster convergence for BERT Base with position masking.
SMART training improves mask-predict translations.
problem Closing the performance gap between semi-autoregressive and autoregressive models.
method SMART training method for conditional masked language models.
result SMART-trained models produce higher-quality translations.
MaskCycleGAN-VC improves voice conversion without parallel data.
problem Limited ability to convert mel-spectrogram data without parallel data.
method Integrates a novel auxiliary task called filling in frames (FIF) to learn time-frequency structures.
result MaskCycleGAN-VC outperforms existing methods with similar model size.
New method reduces diffusion model function evaluations for discrete data.
problem High computational burden in generating samples from masked diffusion models.
method Modified causal attention mask and speculative sampling mechanism for non-factorized predictions.
result Achieved ~2x reduction in required network forward passes.
Proposes a proportional masking strategy for better tabular data imputation.
problem Heterogeneity of tabular data disrupts uniform random masking in MAEs.
method Computes missingness statistics, generates proportional masks, uses MLP token mixing.
result Proportional masking preserves missingness distribution, improves imputation performance.
New analysis reveals masked self-supervised learning's effectiveness in extracting data structure.
problem Analyzing masked self-supervised learning in high-dimensional data.
method Developed precise high-dimensional analysis of masked modeling objectives.
result Identified phase transitions and structured regimes for masked self-supervised learning.
Defense against ASR attacks using dropout uncertainty.
problem Adversarial attacks on ASR systems.
method Dropout uncertainty in neural networks.
result High detection accuracy across various ASR systems and datasets.
This paper connects masked pre-training to Bayesian model selection.
problem Understanding the success of masked pre-training and its generalization.
method The paper shows masked pre-training corresponds to maximizing the marginal likelihood.
result Masked pre-training with a suitable scoring function maximizes the marginal likelihood.
Optimizes pruning masks for neural networks using probabilistic fine-tuning and PAC-Bayes bounds.
problem Improving neural network performance through adaptive pruning of weights.
method Optimizes stochastic pruning masks by minimizing expected loss, considering data-adaptive regularization and feature alignment.
result Probabilistic fine-tuning leads to improved test error over baseline methods in neural networks.
We consider the problem of selecting an optimal mask for an image manifold, i.e., choosing a subset of the pixels of the image that preserves the manifold's geometric structure present in the original data. Such masking implements a form of compressive sensing through emerging imaging sensor platforms for which the pow…
Recent object detectors use four-coordinate bounding box (bbox) regression to predict object locations. Providing additional information indicating the object positions and coordinates will improve detection performance. Thus, we propose two types of masks: a bbox mask and a bounding shape (bshape) mask, to represent t…
Paper proposes a machine learning framework for VLSI mask optimization.
problem Costly VLSI mask optimization due to complex processes.
method Heterogeneous OPC framework using machine learning.
result Demonstrates efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed framework.
The paper investigates the effects of invalid action masking in policy gradient algorithms.
problem Invalid actions in policy gradient algorithms can lead to suboptimal performance.
method The paper provides theoretical justification and empirical demonstrations of the importance of invalid action masking.
result Invalid action masking is crucial as the number of invalid actions increases.
Develops masks to explain neural network predictions.
problem Improving neural network interpretability for various applications.
method Creates explanation masks for pre-trained networks using a secondary network.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of the method across different types of networks.
We propose an algorithm to separate simultaneously speaking persons from each other, the "cocktail party problem", using a single microphone. Our approach involves a deep recurrent neural networks regression to a vector space that is descriptive of independent speakers. Such a vector space can embed empirically determi…
Improved YOLOv5 model detects mask-wearing with enhanced accuracy.
problem Detecting mask-wearing in high traffic public places.
method Improved YOLOv5l with Multi-Head Attentional Self-Convolution, Swin Transformer Block, I-CBAM module, and enhanced feature fusion.
result 1.1% improvement in mAP(0.5) and 1.3% improvement in mAP(0.5:0.95) compared to YOLOv5l.
Simplified masked diffusion models improve discrete data generation.
problem Complex model formulations and unclear relationships hinder discrete data generative modeling.
method Developed a simple and general framework for masked diffusion models.
result Models trained on OpenWebText surpass prior diffusion language models and outperform autoregressive models.
Language models trained on chess board states outperform those on moves, even with causal masking.
problem Applying causal masking to spatial data for training unimodal language models.
method Trained bidirectional and causal self-attention models on both spatial (board-based) and sequential (move-based) chess data.
result Models trained on spatial board states achieve stronger playing strength than those trained on sequential data, even with causal masking.
Masking diffusion outperforms other discrete diffusion models by incorporating jump times into the model.
problem Improving the performance of discrete diffusion models.
method Conditioning on the jump schedule of discrete Markov processes.
result Schedule-conditioned discrete diffusion (SCUD) models outperform classical and masking diffusion models.
Parallel decoding improves machine translation efficiency and accuracy.
problem Efficiently generating translations from left to right.
method Conditional masked language modeling for parallel decoding.
result Improves translation performance by over 4 BLEU points.