PEFT-SER: On the Use of Parameter Efficient Transfer Learning Approaches For Speech Emotion Recognition Using Pre-trained Speech Models

Abstract

Many recent studies have focused on fine-tuning pre-trained models for speech emotion recognition (SER), resulting in promising performance compared to traditional methods that rely largely on low-level, knowledge-inspired acoustic features. These pre-trained speech models learn general-purpose speech representations using self-supervised or weakly-supervised learning objectives from large-scale datasets. Despite the significant advances made in SER through the use of pre-trained architecture, fine-tuning these large pre-trained models for different datasets requires saving copies of entire weight parameters, rendering them impractical to deploy in real-world settings. As an alternative, this work explores parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) approaches for adapting pre-trained speech models for emotion recognition. Specifically, we evaluate the efficacy of adapter tuning, embedding prompt tuning, and LoRa (Low-rank approximation) on four popular SER testbeds. Our results reveal that LoRa achieves the best fine-tuning performance in emotion recognition while enhancing fairness and requiring only a minimal extra amount of weight parameters. Furthermore, our findings offer novel insights into future research directions in SER, distinct from existing approaches focusing on directly fine-tuning the model architecture. Our code is publicly available under: https://github.com/usc-sail/peft-ser.

arXiv commentThis work was accepted to the 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2023

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