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most citedmask-Net: Learning Context Aware Invariant Features using Adversarial Forgetting (Student Abstract)

1 citations · 1 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL2026

DirectSpeech2LLM: A Simple End-to-End Framework to Mitigate Prompt Overfitting in Speech-LLMs

Hemant Yadav, Sunayana Sitaram, Roger Zimmermann +1

Speech-LLMs often exhibit prompt overfitting, where models solely trained on automatic speech recognition (ASR) instruction fail to generalize to new instructions such as speech tr…

cs.CL2026

NAVER LABS Europe Submission to the Instruction-following 2026 Short Track

Marcely Zanon Boito, Hemant Yadav, Jean-Luc Meunier +1

In this paper, we describe NAVER LABS Europe's submission to the instruction-following speech processing short track at IWSLT 2026. We participate again in the constrained setting,…

cs.CL2024

JOOCI: a Framework for Learning Comprehensive Speech Representations

Hemant Yadav, Rajiv Ratn Shah, Sunayana Sitaram

Information in speech can be categorized into two groups: Content (what is being said, such as linguistics) and Other (how it is expressed such as information about speaker and par…

cs.CL2024

Speech Representation Learning Revisited: The Necessity of Separate Learnable Parameters and Robust Data Augmentation

Hemant Yadav, Sunayana Sitaram, Rajiv Ratn Shah

Speech modeling methods learn one embedding for a fixed segment of speech, typically in between 10-25 ms. The information present in speech can be divided into two categories: "wha…

cs.CL2024

MS-HuBERT: Mitigating Pre-training and Inference Mismatch in Masked Language Modelling methods for learning Speech Representations

Hemant Yadav, Sunayana Sitaram, Rajiv Ratn Shah

In recent years, self-supervised pre-training methods have gained significant traction in learning high-level information from raw speech. Among these methods, HuBERT has demonstra…

eess.AS2023

Partial Rank Similarity Minimization Method for Quality MOS Prediction of Unseen Speech Synthesis Systems in Zero-Shot and Semi-supervised setting

Hemant Yadav, Erica Cooper, Junichi Yamagishi +2

This paper introduces a novel objective function for quality mean opinion score (MOS) prediction of unseen speech synthesis systems. The proposed function measures the similarity o…

cs.SD2023

Analysing the Masked predictive coding training criterion for pre-training a Speech Representation Model

Hemant Yadav, Sunayana Sitaram, Rajiv Ratn Shah

Recent developments in pre-trained speech representation utilizing self-supervised learning (SSL) have yielded exceptional results on a variety of downstream tasks. One such techni…

cs.CL2022

A Survey of Multilingual Models for Automatic Speech Recognition

Hemant Yadav, Sunayana Sitaram

Although Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have achieved human-like performance for a few languages, the majority of the world's languages do not have usable systems due t…

cs.CL2021

Intent Classification Using Pre-trained Language Agnostic Embeddings For Low Resource Languages

Hemant Yadav, Akshat Gupta, Sai Krishna Rallabandi +2

Building Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) systems that do not rely on language specific Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is an important yet less explored problem in language…

cs.CL2021

Cisco at AAAI-CAD21 shared task: Predicting Emphasis in Presentation Slides using Contextualized Embeddings

Sreyan Ghosh, Sonal Kumar, Harsh Jalan +2

This paper describes our proposed system for the AAAI-CAD21 shared task: Predicting Emphasis in Presentation Slides. In this specific task, given the contents of a slide we are ask…

cs.SD2020★ 1 cited

mask-Net: Learning Context Aware Invariant Features using Adversarial Forgetting (Student Abstract)

Hemant Yadav, Atul Anshuman Singh, Rachit Mittal +3

Training a robust system, e.g.,Speech to Text (STT), requires large datasets. Variability present in the dataset such as unwanted nuisances and biases are the reason for the need o…

cs.CL2020

MIDAS at SemEval-2020 Task 10: Emphasis Selection using Label Distribution Learning and Contextual Embeddings

Sarthak Anand, Pradyumna Gupta, Hemant Yadav +4

This paper presents our submission to the SemEval 2020 - Task 10 on emphasis selection in written text. We approach this emphasis selection problem as a sequence labeling task wher…

cs.CL2020

End-to-end Named Entity Recognition from English Speech

Hemant Yadav, Sreyan Ghosh, Yi Yu +1

Named entity recognition (NER) from text has been a widely studied problem and usually extracts semantic information from text. Until now, NER from speech is mostly studied in a tw…