EAT: Self-Supervised Pre-Training with Efficient Audio Transformer

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03497v1
• Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2024 14:31:27 GMT
• Title: EAT: Self-Supervised Pre-Training with Efficient Audio Transformer
• Authors: Wenxi Chen, Yuzhe Liang, Ziyang Ma, Zhisheng Zheng, Xie Chen
• Abstract summary: Efficient Audio Transformer (EAT) is inspired by the success of data2vec 2.0 in image modality and Audio-MAE in audio modality. A novel Utterance-Frame Objective (UFO) is designed to enhance the modeling capability of acoustic events. Experiment results demonstrate that EAT achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on a range of audio-related tasks.
• Score: 2.443213094810588
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Audio self-supervised learning (SSL) pre-training, which aims to learn good representations from unlabeled audio, has made remarkable progress. However, the extensive computational demands during pre-training pose a significant barrier to the potential application and optimization of audio SSL models. In this paper, inspired by the success of data2vec 2.0 in image modality and Audio-MAE in audio modality, we introduce Efficient Audio Transformer (EAT) to further improve the effectiveness and efficiency in audio SSL. The proposed EAT adopts the bootstrap self-supervised training paradigm to the audio domain. A novel Utterance-Frame Objective (UFO) is designed to enhance the modeling capability of acoustic events. Furthermore, we reveal that the masking strategy is critical in audio SSL pre-training, and superior audio representations can be obtained with large inverse block masks. Experiment results demonstrate that EAT achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on a range of audio-related tasks, including AudioSet (AS-2M, AS-20K), ESC-50, and SPC-2, along with a significant pre-training speedup up to ~15x compared to existing audio SSL models.

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