DinoSR: Self-Distillation and Online Clustering for Self-supervised Speech Representation Learning

Autor: Liu, Alexander H., Chang, Heng-Jui, Auli, Michael, Hsu, Wei-Ning, Glass, James R.
Rok vydání: 2023
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: In this paper, we introduce self-distillation and online clustering for self-supervised speech representation learning (DinoSR) which combines masked language modeling, self-distillation, and online clustering. We show that these concepts complement each other and result in a strong representation learning model for speech. DinoSR first extracts contextualized embeddings from the input audio with a teacher network, then runs an online clustering system on the embeddings to yield a machine-discovered phone inventory, and finally uses the discretized tokens to guide a student network. We show that DinoSR surpasses previous state-of-the-art performance in several downstream tasks, and provide a detailed analysis of the model and the learned discrete units.
Databáze: arXiv