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20022019
most citedA Comparative Study on Transformer vs RNN in Speech Applications

788 citations

13 papers

eess.AS2019★ 11 cited

ASVspoof 2019: A large-scale public database of synthesized, converted and replayed speech

Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi, Massimiliano Todisco +37

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) is one of the most natural and convenient means of biometric person recognition. Unfortunately, just like all other biometric systems, ASV is v…

cs.CL2019★ 788 cited

A Comparative Study on Transformer vs RNN in Speech Applications

Shigeki Karita, Nanxin Chen, Tomoki Hayashi +10

Sequence-to-sequence models have been widely used in end-to-end speech processing, for example, automatic speech recognition (ASR), speech translation (ST), and text-to-speech (TTS…

stat.ML2019

Absum: Simple Regularization Method for Reducing Structural Sensitivity of Convolutional Neural Networks

Sekitoshi Kanai, Yasutoshi Ida, Yasuhiro Fujiwara +2

We propose Absum, which is a regularization method for improving adversarial robustness of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Although CNNs can accurately recognize images, rece…

stat.ML2018★ 6 cited

Variational Autoencoder with Implicit Optimal Priors

Hiroshi Takahashi, Tomoharu Iwata, Yuki Yamanaka +2

The variational autoencoder (VAE) is a powerful generative model that can estimate the probability of a data point by using latent variables. In the VAE, the posterior of the laten…

cs.LG2018★ 37 cited

Interpretable Adversarial Perturbation in Input Embedding Space for Text

Motoki Sato, Jun Suzuki, Hiroyuki Shindo +1

Following great success in the image processing field, the idea of adversarial training has been applied to tasks in the natural language processing (NLP) field. One promising appr…

cs.DS2018★ 1 cited

On Maximization of Weakly Modular Functions: Guarantees of Multi-stage Algorithms, Tractability, and Hardness

Shinsaku Sakaue

Maximization of {\it non-submodular} functions appears in various scenarios, and many previous works studied it based on some measures that quantify the closeness to being submodul…

cs.CL2018★ 74 cited

ESPnet: End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit

Shinji Watanabe, Takaaki Hori, Shigeki Karita +9

This paper introduces a new open source platform for end-to-end speech processing named ESPnet. ESPnet mainly focuses on end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR), and adopts w…

stat.ML2018★ 77 cited

Differentiable Dynamic Programming for Structured Prediction and Attention

Arthur Mensch, Mathieu Blondel

Dynamic programming (DP) solves a variety of structured combinatorial problems by iteratively breaking them down into smaller subproblems. In spite of their versatility, DP algorit…

quant-ph2017★ 22 cited

Secure Quantum Network Coding on Butterfly Network

Masaki Owari, Go Kato, Masahito Hayashi

Quantum network coding on the butterfly network has been studied as a typical example of quantum multiple cast network. We propose secure quantum network coding on the butterfly ne…

quant-ph2016

A Fast Exact Quantum Algorithm for Solitude Verification

Seiichiro Tani

Solitude verification is arguably one of the simplest fundamental problems in distributed computing, where the goal is to verify that there is a unique contender in a network. This…

cs.NI2016★ 353 cited

Knowledge-Defined Networking

Albert Mestres, Alberto Rodriguez-Natal, Josep Carner +17

The research community has considered in the past the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to control and operate networks. A notable example is the Knowledge Pla…

stat.ML2016★ 36 cited

Localized Lasso for High-Dimensional Regression

Makoto Yamada, Koh Takeuchi, Tomoharu Iwata +2

We introduce the localized Lasso, which is suited for learning models that are both interpretable and have a high predictive power in problems with high dimensionality and smal…

astro-ph2002★ 20 cited

Perturbation theory in Lagrangian hydrodynamics for a cosmological fluid with velocity dispersion

Takayuki Tatekawa, Momoko Suda, Kei-ichi Maeda +2

We extensively develop a perturbation theory for nonlinear cosmological dynamics, based on the Lagrangian description of hydrodynamics. We solve hydrodynamic equations for a self-g…