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5 papers

cs.LG2025

Heterogeneous Self-Supervised Acoustic Pre-Training with Local Constraints

Xiaodong Cui, A F M Saif, Brian Kingsbury +1

Self-supervised pre-training using unlabeled data is widely used in automatic speech recognition. In this paper, we propose a new self-supervised pre-training approach to dealing w…

eess.AS2025

Objective Soups: Multilingual Multi-Task Modeling for Speech Processing

A F M Saif, Lisha Chen, Xiaodong Cui +3

Training a single model for multilingual, multi-task speech processing (MSP) is severely hampered by conflicting objectives between tasks like speech recognition and translation. W…

cs.LG2025

A First-order Generative Bilevel Optimization Framework for Diffusion Models

Quan Xiao, Hui Yuan, A F M Saif +4

Diffusion models, which iteratively denoise data samples to synthesize high-quality outputs, have achieved empirical success across domains. However, optimizing these models for do…

cs.CL2024

Bilevel Joint Unsupervised and Supervised Training for Automatic Speech Recognition

Xiaodong Cui, A F M Saif, Songtao Lu +4

In this paper, we propose a bilevel joint unsupervised and supervised training (BL-JUST) framework for automatic speech recognition. Compared to the conventional pre-training and f…

cs.LG2024

FERERO: A Flexible Framework for Preference-Guided Multi-Objective Learning

Lisha Chen, AFM Saif, Yanning Shen +1

Finding specific preference-guided Pareto solutions that represent different trade-offs among multiple objectives is critical yet challenging in multi-objective problems. Existing…