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Pretext Tasks selection for multitask self-supervised speech representation learning

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Through solving pretext tasks, self-supervised learning leverages unlabeled data to extract useful latent representations replacing traditional input features in the downstream task. In audio/speech signal processing, a wide range of features where engineered through decades of research efforts. As it turns out, learning to predict such features (a.k.a pseudo-labels) has proven to be a particularly relevant pretext task, leading to useful self-supervised representations which prove to be effective for downstream tasks. However, methods and common practices for combining such pretext tasks for better performance on the downstream task have not been explored and understood properly. In fact, the process relies almost exclusively on a computationally heavy experimental procedure, which becomes intractable with the increase of the number of pretext tasks. This paper introduces a method to select a group of pretext tasks among a set of candidates. The method we propose estimates calibrated weights for the partial losses corresponding to the considered pretext tasks during the self-supervised training process. The experiments conducted on automatic speech recognition, speaker and emotion recognition validate our approach, as the groups selected and weighted with our method perform better than classic baselines, thus facilitating the selection and combination of relevant pseudo-labels for self-supervised representation learning.
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hal-03601330 , version 1 (08-03-2022)

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Salah Zaiem, Titouan Parcollet, Slim Essid, Abdelwahab Heba. Pretext Tasks selection for multitask self-supervised speech representation learning. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2022, 16 (6), pp.1439-1453. ⟨10.1109/JSTSP.2022.3195430⟩. ⟨hal-03601330⟩
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