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20242026
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11 papers

cs.SD2026

BAT: Better Audio Transformer Guided by Convex Gated Probing

Houtan Ghaffari, Lukas Rauch, Christoph Scholz +1

Probing is widely adopted in computer vision to faithfully evaluate self-supervised learning (SSL) embeddings, as finetuning may misrepresent their inherent quality. In contrast, a…

cs.SD2026

Unmute the Patch Tokens: Rethinking Probing in Multi-Label Audio Classification

Lukas Rauch, René Heinrich, Houtan Ghaffari +4

Although probing frozen models has become a standard evaluation paradigm, self-supervised learning in audio defaults to fine-tuning when pursuing state-of-the-art on AudioSet. A ke…

cs.AI2026

Meta-Learning and Meta-Reinforcement Learning -- Tracing the Path towards DeepMind's Adaptive Agent

Björn Hoppmann, Christoph Scholz

Humans are highly effective at utilizing prior knowledge to adapt to novel tasks, a capability that standard machine learning models struggle to replicate due to their reliance on…

cs.LG2026

Graph Reinforcement Learning for Power Grids: A Comprehensive Survey

Mohamed Hassouna, Clara Holzhüter, Pawel Lytaev +3

The increasing share of renewable energy and distributed electricity generation requires the development of deep learning approaches to address the lack of flexibility inherent in…

cs.LG2025

Can Masked Autoencoders Also Listen to Birds?

Lukas Rauch, René Heinrich, Ilyass Moummad +3

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) learn rich semantic representations in audio classification through an efficient self-supervised reconstruction task. However, general-purpose models fai…

cs.LG2025

Adversarial Training Improves Generalization Under Distribution Shifts in Bird Sound Classification

René Heinrich, René Heinrich, Lukas Rauch +5

Adversarial training is a promising strategy for enhancing robustness against adversarial attacks, but its impact on generalization under substantial distribution shifts in audio c…