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arXiv:2608. 19863v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) has driven substantial progress in audio representation learning, though existing methods have increasingly relied on elaborate pre-training recipes to reach competitive performance.

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MJEPA: A Simple and Scalable Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture for Audio-Visual Learning

arXiv:2606. 25225v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning from large-scale video data has emerged as a dominant paradigm for visual representation learning.

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arXiv Machine Learning

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Trajectory Dynamics in Self-Supervised Learning Latent Space for Audio Deepfake Detection

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MJEPA: A Simple and Scalable Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture for Audio-Visual Learning

Self-supervised learning from large-scale video data has emerged as a dominant paradigm for visual representation learning. Since audio and visual streams naturally co-occur in video data, extending this success to jointly learn from both modalities is a natural next step, yet it remains challenging.

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arXiv AI

Jul 1

Revisiting Audio-language Pretraining for Learning General-purpose Audio Representation

arXiv:2511. 16757v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Audio-language pretraining (ALP) holds promise for learning general-purpose audio representation, yet remains underexplored.

By Wei-Cheng Tseng, Xuanru Zhou, Mingyue Huo, Yiwen Shao, Hao Zhang, Dong Yu

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arXiv AI

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Predict and Reconstruct: Joint Objectives for Self-Supervised Language Representation Learning

arXiv:2606. 05173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Masked language modelling (MLM) has been the dominant pre-training objective for text encoders since BERT, yet it encourages representations that are strongly anchored to surface-form token identity rather than deeper semantic structure.

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