Simple Pooling Front-ends For Efficient Audio Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00943v5
• Date: Sun, 7 May 2023 02:06:55 GMT
• Title: Simple Pooling Front-ends For Efficient Audio Classification
• Authors: Xubo Liu, Haohe Liu, Qiuqiang Kong, Xinhao Mei, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang
• Abstract summary: We show that eliminating the temporal redundancy in the input audio features could be an effective approach for efficient audio classification. We propose a family of simple pooling front-ends (SimPFs) which use simple non-parametric pooling operations to reduce the redundant information. SimPFs can achieve a reduction in more than half of the number of floating point operations for off-the-shelf audio neural networks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Recently, there has been increasing interest in building efficient audio neural networks for on-device scenarios. Most existing approaches are designed to reduce the size of audio neural networks using methods such as model pruning. In this work, we show that instead of reducing model size using complex methods, eliminating the temporal redundancy in the input audio features (e.g., mel-spectrogram) could be an effective approach for efficient audio classification. To do so, we proposed a family of simple pooling front-ends (SimPFs) which use simple non-parametric pooling operations to reduce the redundant information within the mel-spectrogram. We perform extensive experiments on four audio classification tasks to evaluate the performance of SimPFs. Experimental results show that SimPFs can achieve a reduction in more than half of the number of floating point operations (FLOPs) for off-the-shelf audio neural networks, with negligible degradation or even some improvements in audio classification performance.

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