ATST: Audio Representation Learning with Teacher-Student Transformer
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This work addresses the problem of segment-level general audio SSL, and proposes a new transformer-based teacher-student SSL model, named ATST, which achieves the new state-of-the-art results on almost all of the downstream tasks.
Abstract
Self-supervised learning (SSL) learns knowledge from a large amount of unlabeled data, and then transfers the knowledge to a specific problem with a limited number of labeled data. SSL has achieved promising results in various domains. This work addresses the problem of segment-level general audio SSL, and proposes a new transformer-based teacher-student SSL model, named ATST. A transformer encoder is developed on a recently emerged teacher-student baseline scheme, which largely improves the modeling capability of pre-training. In addition, a new strategy for positive pair creation is designed to fully leverage the capability of transformer. Extensive experiments have been conducted, and the proposed model achieves the new state-of-the-art results on almost all of the downstream tasks.
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