Rehearsal-Free Online Continual Learning for Automatic Speech Recognition

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Autori principali: Eeckt, Steven Vander, Van hamme, Hugo
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author Eeckt, Steven Vander
Van hamme, Hugo
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Van hamme, Hugo
contents Fine-tuning an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model to new domains results in degradation on original domains, referred to as Catastrophic Forgetting (CF). Continual Learning (CL) attempts to train ASR models without suffering from CF. While in ASR, offline CL is usually considered, online CL is a more realistic but also more challenging scenario where the model, unlike in offline CL, does not know when a task boundary occurs. Rehearsal-based methods, which store previously seen utterances in a memory, are often considered for online CL, in ASR and other research domains. However, recent research has shown that weight averaging is an effective method for offline CL in ASR. Based on this result, we propose, in this paper, a rehearsal-free method applicable for online CL. Our method outperforms all baselines, including rehearsal-based methods, in two experiments. Our method is a next step towards general CL for ASR, which should enable CL in all scenarios with few if any constraints.
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spellingShingle Rehearsal-Free Online Continual Learning for Automatic Speech Recognition
Eeckt, Steven Vander
Van hamme, Hugo
Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
Fine-tuning an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model to new domains results in degradation on original domains, referred to as Catastrophic Forgetting (CF). Continual Learning (CL) attempts to train ASR models without suffering from CF. While in ASR, offline CL is usually considered, online CL is a more realistic but also more challenging scenario where the model, unlike in offline CL, does not know when a task boundary occurs. Rehearsal-based methods, which store previously seen utterances in a memory, are often considered for online CL, in ASR and other research domains. However, recent research has shown that weight averaging is an effective method for offline CL in ASR. Based on this result, we propose, in this paper, a rehearsal-free method applicable for online CL. Our method outperforms all baselines, including rehearsal-based methods, in two experiments. Our method is a next step towards general CL for ASR, which should enable CL in all scenarios with few if any constraints.
title Rehearsal-Free Online Continual Learning for Automatic Speech Recognition
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10860