arXiv Machine Learning August 18, 2026 By Christiaan M. Geldenhuys, Thomas R. Niesler

A Parameter-Free Few-Shot Evaluation for Elephant Vocalisation Classification

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arXiv:2608. 14824v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a parameter-free episodic evaluation of nearest-centroid classification for elephant vocalisations on fixed pretrained acoustic embeddings, across the Elephant Voices (EV) and Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) datasets.

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