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20202026
most citedTriplet Entropy Loss: Improving The Generalisation of Short Speech Language Identification Systems

3 citations · 3 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL2026

Scaling few-shot spoken word classification with generative meta-continual learning

Louise Beyers, Batsirayi Mupamhi Ziki, Ruan van der Merwe

Few-shot spoken word classification has largely been developed for applications where a small number of classes is considered, and so the potential of larger-scale few-shot spoken…

cs.CL2026

Does language matter for spoken word classification? A multilingual generative meta-learning approach

Batsirayi Mupamhi Ziki, Louise Beyers, Ruan van der Merwe

Meta-learning has been shown to have better performance than supervised learning for few-shot monolingual spoken word classification. However, the meta-learning approach remains un…

cs.CL2023

Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting for Few-Shot Spoken Word Classification Through Meta-Learning

Ruan van der Merwe, Herman Kamper

We consider the problem of few-shot spoken word classification in a setting where a model is incrementally introduced to new word classes. This would occur in a user-defined keywor…

cs.LG2022

Manifold Characteristics That Predict Downstream Task Performance

Ruan van der Merwe, Gregory Newman, Etienne Barnard

Pretraining methods are typically compared by evaluating the accuracy of linear classifiers, transfer learning performance, or visually inspecting the representation manifold's (RM…

cs.SD2020★ 3 cited

Triplet Entropy Loss: Improving The Generalisation of Short Speech Language Identification Systems

Ruan van der Merwe

We present several methods to improve the generalisation of language identification (LID) systems to new speakers and to new domains. These methods involve Spectral augmentation, w…