4 papers
Evaluating The Robustness of Self-Supervised Representations to Background/Foreground Removal
Xavier F. Cadet, Ranya Aloufi, Alain Miranville +2
Despite impressive empirical advances of SSL in solving various tasks, the problem of understanding and characterizing SSL representations learned from input data remains relativel…
A study on the impact of Self-Supervised Learning on automatic dysarthric speech assessment
Xavier F. Cadet, Ranya Aloufi, Sara Ahmadi-Abhari +1
Automating dysarthria assessments offers the opportunity to develop practical, low-cost tools that address the current limitations of manual and subjective assessments. Nonetheless…
FIB: A Method for Evaluation of Feature Impact Balance in Multi-Dimensional Data
Xavier F. Cadet, Sara Ahmadi-Abhari, Hamed Haddadi
Errors might not have the same consequences depending on the task at hand. Nevertheless, there is limited research investigating the impact of imbalance in the contribution of diff…
Proof of Steak
Jon Crowcroft, Hamed Haddadi, Arthur Gervais +1
We introduce Proof-of-Steak (PoS) as a fundamental net-zero block generation technique, often accompanied by Non-Frangipane Tokens. Genesis cut is gradually heated and minted (usin…