SELECTIVE MUTUAL LEARNING: AN EFFICIENT APPROACH FOR SINGLE CHANNEL SPEECH SEPARATION

Ha Minh Tan, Duc Quang Vu, Chung Ting Lee, Yung-Hui Li, Jia Ching Wang

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Abstract

Mutual learning, the related idea to knowledge distillation, is a group of untrained lightweight networks, which simultaneously learn and share knowledge to perform tasks together during training. In this paper, we propose a novel mutual learning approach, namely selective mutual learning. This is the simple yet effective approach to boost the performance of the networks for speech separation. There are two networks in the selective mutual learning method, they are like a pair of friends learning and sharing knowledge with each other. Especially, the high-confidence predictions are used to guide the remaining network while the low-confidence predictions are ignored. This helps to remove poor predictions of the two networks during sharing knowledge. The experimental results have shown that our proposed selective mutual learning method significantly improves the separation performance compared to existing training strategies including independently training, knowledge distillation, and mutual learning with the same network architecture.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages3678-3682
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781665405409
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event47th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022 - Virtual, Online, Singapore
Duration: 23 May 202227 May 2022

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2022-May
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference47th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022
Country/TerritorySingapore
CityVirtual, Online
Period23/05/2227/05/22

Keywords

  • monophonic source separation
  • Supervised speech separation
  • time domain audio separation

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