Bringing the Discussion of Minima Sharpness to the Audio Domain: a Filter-Normalised Evaluation for Acoustic Scene Classification

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Autori principali: Milling, Manuel, Triantafyllopoulos, Andreas, Tsangko, Iosif, Rampp, Simon David Noel, Schuller, Björn Wolfgang
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author Milling, Manuel
Triantafyllopoulos, Andreas
Tsangko, Iosif
Rampp, Simon David Noel
Schuller, Björn Wolfgang
author_facet Milling, Manuel
Triantafyllopoulos, Andreas
Tsangko, Iosif
Rampp, Simon David Noel
Schuller, Björn Wolfgang
contents The correlation between the sharpness of loss minima and generalisation in the context of deep neural networks has been subject to discussion for a long time. Whilst mostly investigated in the context of selected benchmark data sets in the area of computer vision, we explore this aspect for the acoustic scene classification task of the DCASE2020 challenge data. Our analysis is based on two-dimensional filter-normalised visualisations and a derived sharpness measure. Our exploratory analysis shows that sharper minima tend to show better generalisation than flat minima -even more so for out-of-domain data, recorded from previously unseen devices-, thus adding to the dispute about better generalisation capabilities of flat minima. We further find that, in particular, the choice of optimisers is a main driver of the sharpness of minima and we discuss resulting limitations with respect to comparability. Our code, trained model states and loss landscape visualisations are publicly available.
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spellingShingle Bringing the Discussion of Minima Sharpness to the Audio Domain: a Filter-Normalised Evaluation for Acoustic Scene Classification
Milling, Manuel
Triantafyllopoulos, Andreas
Tsangko, Iosif
Rampp, Simon David Noel
Schuller, Björn Wolfgang
Sound
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
The correlation between the sharpness of loss minima and generalisation in the context of deep neural networks has been subject to discussion for a long time. Whilst mostly investigated in the context of selected benchmark data sets in the area of computer vision, we explore this aspect for the acoustic scene classification task of the DCASE2020 challenge data. Our analysis is based on two-dimensional filter-normalised visualisations and a derived sharpness measure. Our exploratory analysis shows that sharper minima tend to show better generalisation than flat minima -even more so for out-of-domain data, recorded from previously unseen devices-, thus adding to the dispute about better generalisation capabilities of flat minima. We further find that, in particular, the choice of optimisers is a main driver of the sharpness of minima and we discuss resulting limitations with respect to comparability. Our code, trained model states and loss landscape visualisations are publicly available.
title Bringing the Discussion of Minima Sharpness to the Audio Domain: a Filter-Normalised Evaluation for Acoustic Scene Classification
topic Sound
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16369