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Main Authors: Seki, Shogo, Dang, Shaoxiang, Li, Li
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02454
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author Seki, Shogo
Dang, Shaoxiang
Li, Li
author_facet Seki, Shogo
Dang, Shaoxiang
Li, Li
contents The Dilated FAVOR Conformer (DF-Conformer) is an efficient variant of the Conformer architecture designed for speech enhancement (SE). It employs fast attention through positive orthogonal random features (FAVOR+) to mitigate the quadratic complexity associated with self-attention, while utilizing dilated convolution to expand the receptive field. This combination results in impressive performance across various SE models. In this paper, we propose replacing FAVOR+ with bidirectional selective structured state-space sequence models to achieve two main objectives:(1) enhancing global sequential modeling by eliminating the approximations inherent in FAVOR+, and (2) maintaining linear complexity relative to the sequence length. Specifically, we utilize Hydra, a bidirectional extension of Mamba, framed within the structured matrix mixer framework. Experiments conducted using a generative SE model on discrete codec tokens, known as Genhancer, demonstrate that the proposed method surpasses the performance of the DF-Conformer.
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spellingShingle Improving DF-Conformer Using Hydra For High-Fidelity Generative Speech Enhancement on Discrete Codec Token
Seki, Shogo
Dang, Shaoxiang
Li, Li
Sound
The Dilated FAVOR Conformer (DF-Conformer) is an efficient variant of the Conformer architecture designed for speech enhancement (SE). It employs fast attention through positive orthogonal random features (FAVOR+) to mitigate the quadratic complexity associated with self-attention, while utilizing dilated convolution to expand the receptive field. This combination results in impressive performance across various SE models. In this paper, we propose replacing FAVOR+ with bidirectional selective structured state-space sequence models to achieve two main objectives:(1) enhancing global sequential modeling by eliminating the approximations inherent in FAVOR+, and (2) maintaining linear complexity relative to the sequence length. Specifically, we utilize Hydra, a bidirectional extension of Mamba, framed within the structured matrix mixer framework. Experiments conducted using a generative SE model on discrete codec tokens, known as Genhancer, demonstrate that the proposed method surpasses the performance of the DF-Conformer.
title Improving DF-Conformer Using Hydra For High-Fidelity Generative Speech Enhancement on Discrete Codec Token
topic Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02454