Search Results for author: Alexei Baevski

Found 40 papers, 23 papers with code

Adaptive Input Representations for Neural Language Modeling

3 code implementations ICLR 2019 Alexei Baevski, Michael Auli

We introduce adaptive input representations for neural language modeling which extend the adaptive softmax of Grave et al. (2017) to input representations of variable capacity.

Language Modelling

Cloze-driven Pretraining of Self-attention Networks

no code implementations IJCNLP 2019 Alexei Baevski, Sergey Edunov, Yinhan Liu, Luke Zettlemoyer, Michael Auli

We present a new approach for pretraining a bi-directional transformer model that provides significant performance gains across a variety of language understanding problems.

Constituency Parsing NER +2

fairseq: A Fast, Extensible Toolkit for Sequence Modeling

6 code implementations NAACL 2019 Myle Ott, Sergey Edunov, Alexei Baevski, Angela Fan, Sam Gross, Nathan Ng, David Grangier, Michael Auli

fairseq is an open-source sequence modeling toolkit that allows researchers and developers to train custom models for translation, summarization, language modeling, and other text generation tasks.

Language Modelling Text Generation +1

wav2vec: Unsupervised Pre-training for Speech Recognition

5 code implementations11 Apr 2019 Steffen Schneider, Alexei Baevski, Ronan Collobert, Michael Auli

Our experiments on WSJ reduce WER of a strong character-based log-mel filterbank baseline by up to 36% when only a few hours of transcribed data is available.

Ranked #5 on Speech Recognition on TIMIT (using extra training data)

Binary Classification General Classification +2

vq-wav2vec: Self-Supervised Learning of Discrete Speech Representations

3 code implementations ICLR 2020 Alexei Baevski, Steffen Schneider, Michael Auli

We propose vq-wav2vec to learn discrete representations of audio segments through a wav2vec-style self-supervised context prediction task.

Ranked #2 on Speech Recognition on TIMIT (using extra training data)

Clustering General Classification +3

Effectiveness of self-supervised pre-training for speech recognition

2 code implementations10 Nov 2019 Alexei Baevski, Michael Auli, Abdel-rahman Mohamed

We compare self-supervised representation learning algorithms which either explicitly quantize the audio data or learn representations without quantization.

Language Modelling Quantization +3

wav2vec 2.0: A Framework for Self-Supervised Learning of Speech Representations

22 code implementations NeurIPS 2020 Alexei Baevski, Henry Zhou, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Michael Auli

We show for the first time that learning powerful representations from speech audio alone followed by fine-tuning on transcribed speech can outperform the best semi-supervised methods while being conceptually simpler.

 Ranked #1 on Speech Recognition on TIMIT (using extra training data)

Quantization Self-Supervised Learning +1

Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning for Speech Recognition

6 code implementations24 Jun 2020 Alexis Conneau, Alexei Baevski, Ronan Collobert, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Michael Auli

This paper presents XLSR which learns cross-lingual speech representations by pretraining a single model from the raw waveform of speech in multiple languages.

Quantization Representation Learning +2

Self-training and Pre-training are Complementary for Speech Recognition

3 code implementations22 Oct 2020 Qiantong Xu, Alexei Baevski, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Paden Tomasello, Alexis Conneau, Ronan Collobert, Gabriel Synnaeve, Michael Auli

Self-training and unsupervised pre-training have emerged as effective approaches to improve speech recognition systems using unlabeled data.

 Ranked #1 on Speech Recognition on LibriSpeech train-clean-100 test-other (using extra training data)

speech-recognition Speech Recognition +1

Multilingual Speech Translation with Efficient Finetuning of Pretrained Models

no code implementations24 Oct 2020 Xian Li, Changhan Wang, Yun Tang, Chau Tran, Yuqing Tang, Juan Pino, Alexei Baevski, Alexis Conneau, Michael Auli

We present a simple yet effective approach to build multilingual speech-to-text (ST) translation by efficient transfer learning from pretrained speech encoder and text decoder.

Cross-Lingual Transfer Text Generation +2

A Comparison of Discrete Latent Variable Models for Speech Representation Learning

no code implementations24 Oct 2020 Henry Zhou, Alexei Baevski, Michael Auli

Neural latent variable models enable the discovery of interesting structure in speech audio data.

Representation Learning

The Zero Resource Speech Benchmark 2021: Metrics and baselines for unsupervised spoken language modeling

2 code implementations23 Nov 2020 Tu Anh Nguyen, Maureen de Seyssel, Patricia Rozé, Morgane Rivière, Evgeny Kharitonov, Alexei Baevski, Ewan Dunbar, Emmanuel Dupoux

We introduce a new unsupervised task, spoken language modeling: the learning of linguistic representations from raw audio signals without any labels, along with the Zero Resource Speech Benchmark 2021: a suite of 4 black-box, zero-shot metrics probing for the quality of the learned models at 4 linguistic levels: phonetics, lexicon, syntax and semantics.

Clustering Language Modelling +1

Reservoir Transformers

no code implementations ACL 2021 Sheng Shen, Alexei Baevski, Ari S. Morcos, Kurt Keutzer, Michael Auli, Douwe Kiela

We demonstrate that transformers obtain impressive performance even when some of the layers are randomly initialized and never updated.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Language Modelling +2

Uncovering the impact of learning rate for global magnitude pruning

no code implementations1 Jan 2021 Janice Lan, Rudy Chin, Alexei Baevski, Ari S. Morcos

However, prior work has implicitly assumed that the best training configuration for model performance was also the best configuration for mask discovery.

Generative Spoken Language Modeling from Raw Audio

2 code implementations1 Feb 2021 Kushal Lakhotia, Evgeny Kharitonov, Wei-Ning Hsu, Yossi Adi, Adam Polyak, Benjamin Bolte, Tu-Anh Nguyen, Jade Copet, Alexei Baevski, Adelrahman Mohamed, Emmanuel Dupoux

We introduce Generative Spoken Language Modeling, the task of learning the acoustic and linguistic characteristics of a language from raw audio (no text, no labels), and a set of metrics to automatically evaluate the learned representations at acoustic and linguistic levels for both encoding and generation.

Language Modelling Resynthesis

Robust wav2vec 2.0: Analyzing Domain Shift in Self-Supervised Pre-Training

3 code implementations2 Apr 2021 Wei-Ning Hsu, Anuroop Sriram, Alexei Baevski, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Qiantong Xu, Vineel Pratap, Jacob Kahn, Ann Lee, Ronan Collobert, Gabriel Synnaeve, Michael Auli

On a large-scale competitive setup, we show that pre-training on unlabeled in-domain data reduces the gap between models trained on in-domain and out-of-domain labeled data by 66%-73%.

Self-Supervised Learning

Large-Scale Self- and Semi-Supervised Learning for Speech Translation

no code implementations14 Apr 2021 Changhan Wang, Anne Wu, Juan Pino, Alexei Baevski, Michael Auli, Alexis Conneau

In this paper, we improve speech translation (ST) through effectively leveraging large quantities of unlabeled speech and text data in different and complementary ways.

Language Modelling Translation

Unsupervised Speech Recognition

4 code implementations NeurIPS 2021 Alexei Baevski, Wei-Ning Hsu, Alexis Conneau, Michael Auli

Despite rapid progress in the recent past, current speech recognition systems still require labeled training data which limits this technology to a small fraction of the languages spoken around the globe.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition +1

Multilingual Speech Translation from Efficient Finetuning of Pretrained Models

no code implementations ACL 2021 Xian Li, Changhan Wang, Yun Tang, Chau Tran, Yuqing Tang, Juan Pino, Alexei Baevski, Alexis Conneau, Michael Auli

We present a simple yet effective approach to build multilingual speech-to-text (ST) translation through efficient transfer learning from a pretrained speech encoder and text decoder.

Text Generation Transfer Learning +1

Simple and Effective Zero-shot Cross-lingual Phoneme Recognition

2 code implementations23 Sep 2021 Qiantong Xu, Alexei Baevski, Michael Auli

Recent progress in self-training, self-supervised pretraining and unsupervised learning enabled well performing speech recognition systems without any labeled data.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition +2

data2vec: A General Framework for Self-supervised Learning in Speech, Vision and Language

9 code implementations Preprint 2022 Alexei Baevski, Wei-Ning Hsu, Qiantong Xu, Arun Babu, Jiatao Gu, Michael Auli

While the general idea of self-supervised learning is identical across modalities, the actual algorithms and objectives differ widely because they were developed with a single modality in mind.

Image Classification Linguistic Acceptability +5

Measuring the Impact of Individual Domain Factors in Self-Supervised Pre-Training

no code implementations1 Mar 2022 Ramon Sanabria, Wei-Ning Hsu, Alexei Baevski, Michael Auli

In this paper, we present a controlled study to better understand the effect of such factors on the performance of pre-trained representations on automatic speech recognition.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Towards End-to-end Unsupervised Speech Recognition

1 code implementation5 Apr 2022 Alexander H. Liu, Wei-Ning Hsu, Michael Auli, Alexei Baevski

Unsupervised speech recognition has shown great potential to make Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems accessible to every language.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

On-demand compute reduction with stochastic wav2vec 2.0

no code implementations25 Apr 2022 Apoorv Vyas, Wei-Ning Hsu, Michael Auli, Alexei Baevski

Our results for models pre-trained on 960h Librispeech dataset and fine-tuned on 10h of transcribed data show that using the same stochastic model, we get a smooth trade-off between word error rate (WER) and inference time with only marginal WER degradation compared to the W2V2 and SEW models trained for a specific setting.

Offline Visual Representation Learning for Embodied Navigation

1 code implementation27 Apr 2022 Karmesh Yadav, Ram Ramrakhya, Arjun Majumdar, Vincent-Pierre Berges, Sachit Kuhar, Dhruv Batra, Alexei Baevski, Oleksandr Maksymets

In this paper, we show that an alternative 2-stage strategy is far more effective: (1) offline pretraining of visual representations with self-supervised learning (SSL) using large-scale pre-rendered images of indoor environments (Omnidata), and (2) online finetuning of visuomotor representations on specific tasks with image augmentations under long learning schedules.

Representation Learning Self-Supervised Learning

Wav2Vec-Aug: Improved self-supervised training with limited data

no code implementations27 Jun 2022 Anuroop Sriram, Michael Auli, Alexei Baevski

Self-supervised learning (SSL) of speech representations has received much attention over the last few years but most work has focused on languages and domains with an abundance of unlabeled data.

Data Augmentation Self-Supervised Learning

Masked Autoencoders that Listen

4 code implementations13 Jul 2022 Po-Yao Huang, Hu Xu, Juncheng Li, Alexei Baevski, Michael Auli, Wojciech Galuba, Florian Metze, Christoph Feichtenhofer

Following the Transformer encoder-decoder design in MAE, our Audio-MAE first encodes audio spectrogram patches with a high masking ratio, feeding only the non-masked tokens through encoder layers.

Ranked #2 on Speaker Identification on VoxCeleb1 (using extra training data)

Audio Classification Representation Learning +1

AV-data2vec: Self-supervised Learning of Audio-Visual Speech Representations with Contextualized Target Representations

no code implementations10 Feb 2023 Jiachen Lian, Alexei Baevski, Wei-Ning Hsu, Michael Auli

Self-supervision has shown great potential for audio-visual speech recognition by vastly reducing the amount of labeled data required to build good systems.

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition Self-Supervised Learning +2

OVRL-V2: A simple state-of-art baseline for ImageNav and ObjectNav

no code implementations14 Mar 2023 Karmesh Yadav, Arjun Majumdar, Ram Ramrakhya, Naoki Yokoyama, Alexei Baevski, Zsolt Kira, Oleksandr Maksymets, Dhruv Batra

We present a single neural network architecture composed of task-agnostic components (ViTs, convolutions, and LSTMs) that achieves state-of-art results on both the ImageNav ("go to location in <this picture>") and ObjectNav ("find a chair") tasks without any task-specific modules like object detection, segmentation, mapping, or planning modules.

object-detection Object Detection +3

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