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arXiv Machine Learning

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MAST: Label-Efficient, Robust, and Generalizable Sound Detection for Biodiversity Monitoring via Masked Audio Pretraining and Self-Training

arXiv:2609.15221v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Passive acoustic monitoring can measure biodiversity at larger scales, but time--frequency annotation of animal vocalizations is expensive, site-spec...

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arXiv Machine Learning

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Beyond task performance: Decoding bioacoustic embeddings with speech features

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arXiv AI

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VocSim: A Training-free Benchmark for Zero-shot Content Identity in Single-source Audio

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arXiv Computation and Language

Sep 1

A Simple Method to Enhance Pre-trained Language Models with Speech Tokens for Classification

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arXiv Computer Vision

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