Attention is All You Need? Good Embeddings with Statistics are enough:Large Scale Audio Understanding without Transformers/ Convolutions/ BERTs/ Mixers/ Attention/ RNNs or ....
Authors: Prateek Verma
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- Deep learning has revolutionized audio signal processing
- Convolutional architectures have achieved state-of-the-art results
- End-to-end Transformer architectures have shown impressive performance in natural language processing tasks
- The proposed method for large-scale audio understanding does not rely on traditional neural architectures or Transformers
- The approach is based on a Bag-of-Words model and utilizes micro and macro level clustered vanilla embeddings
- Feed-forward encoder-decoder models are used to extract bottlenecks of spectral envelops, spectral patches and slices as well as multi-resolution spectra
- A classification head is trained on a learned representation using simple codes learned on latent representations
- This approach does not involve convolutions, recurrence, attention mechanisms or other approaches such as BERT.
- The authors demonstrate that their approach surpasses traditional convolutional neural network architectures and comes strikingly close to outperforming powerful Transformer architectures.
- This work presents a novel way of doing large scale audio understanding that challenges the dominance of traditional convolutional and recurrent neural networks as well as end-to-end Transformer architectures.
Abstract: This paper presents a way of doing large scale audio understanding without traditional state of the art neural architectures. Ever since the introduction of deep learning for understanding audio signals in the past decade, convolutional architectures have been able to achieve state of the art results surpassing traditional hand-crafted features. In the recent past, there has been a similar shift away from traditional convolutional and recurrent neural networks towards purely end-to-end Transformer architectures. We, in this work, explore an approach, based on Bag-of-Words model. Our approach does not have any convolutions, recurrence, attention, transformers or other approaches such as BERT. We utilize micro and macro level clustered vanilla embeddings, and use a MLP head for classification. We only use feed-forward encoder-decoder models to get the bottlenecks of spectral envelops, spectral patches and slices as well as multi-resolution spectra. A classification head (a feed-forward layer), similar to the approach in SimCLR is trained on a learned representation. Using simple codes learned on latent representations, we show how we surpass traditional convolutional neural network architectures, and come strikingly close to outperforming powerful Transformer architectures. This work hopefully would pave way for exciting advancements in the field of representation learning without massive, end-to-end neural architectures.
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