ExHuBERT: Enhancing HuBERT Through Block Extension and Fine-Tuning on 37 Emotion Datasets

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Autori principali: Amiriparian, Shahin, Packań, Filip, Gerczuk, Maurice, Schuller, Björn W.
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author Amiriparian, Shahin
Packań, Filip
Gerczuk, Maurice
Schuller, Björn W.
author_facet Amiriparian, Shahin
Packań, Filip
Gerczuk, Maurice
Schuller, Björn W.
contents Foundation models have shown great promise in speech emotion recognition (SER) by leveraging their pre-trained representations to capture emotion patterns in speech signals. To further enhance SER performance across various languages and domains, we propose a novel twofold approach. First, we gather EmoSet++, a comprehensive multi-lingual, multi-cultural speech emotion corpus with 37 datasets, 150,907 samples, and a total duration of 119.5 hours. Second, we introduce ExHuBERT, an enhanced version of HuBERT achieved by backbone extension and fine-tuning on EmoSet++. We duplicate each encoder layer and its weights, then freeze the first duplicate, integrating an extra zero-initialized linear layer and skip connections to preserve functionality and ensure its adaptability for subsequent fine-tuning. Our evaluation on unseen datasets shows the efficacy of ExHuBERT, setting a new benchmark for various SER tasks. Model and details on EmoSet++: https://huggingface.co/amiriparian/ExHuBERT.
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spellingShingle ExHuBERT: Enhancing HuBERT Through Block Extension and Fine-Tuning on 37 Emotion Datasets
Amiriparian, Shahin
Packań, Filip
Gerczuk, Maurice
Schuller, Björn W.
Computation and Language
68T10
I.2
Foundation models have shown great promise in speech emotion recognition (SER) by leveraging their pre-trained representations to capture emotion patterns in speech signals. To further enhance SER performance across various languages and domains, we propose a novel twofold approach. First, we gather EmoSet++, a comprehensive multi-lingual, multi-cultural speech emotion corpus with 37 datasets, 150,907 samples, and a total duration of 119.5 hours. Second, we introduce ExHuBERT, an enhanced version of HuBERT achieved by backbone extension and fine-tuning on EmoSet++. We duplicate each encoder layer and its weights, then freeze the first duplicate, integrating an extra zero-initialized linear layer and skip connections to preserve functionality and ensure its adaptability for subsequent fine-tuning. Our evaluation on unseen datasets shows the efficacy of ExHuBERT, setting a new benchmark for various SER tasks. Model and details on EmoSet++: https://huggingface.co/amiriparian/ExHuBERT.
title ExHuBERT: Enhancing HuBERT Through Block Extension and Fine-Tuning on 37 Emotion Datasets
topic Computation and Language
68T10
I.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10275