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HuBERT: Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning by Masked Prediction of Hidden Units
Wei-Ning Hsu, Benjamin Bolte, Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai +3
Self-supervised approaches for speech representation learning are challenged by three unique problems: (1) there are multiple sound units in each input utterance, (2) there is no l…
On the Influence of Masking Policies in Intermediate Pre-training
Qinyuan Ye, Belinda Z. Li, Sinong Wang +5
Current NLP models are predominantly trained through a two-stage "pre-train then fine-tune" pipeline. Prior work has shown that inserting an intermediate pre-training stage, using…
Generative Spoken Language Modeling from Raw Audio
Kushal Lakhotia, Evgeny Kharitonov, Wei-Ning Hsu +8
We introduce Generative Spoken Language Modeling, the task of learning the acoustic and linguistic characteristics of a language from raw audio (no text, no labels), and a set of m…
Studying Strategically: Learning to Mask for Closed-book QA
Qinyuan Ye, Belinda Z. Li, Sinong Wang +5
Closed-book question-answering (QA) is a challenging task that requires a model to directly answer questions without access to external knowledge. It has been shown that directly f…