Synthio: Augmenting Small-Scale Audio Classification Datasets with Synthetic Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02056v1
• Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 22:05:36 GMT
• Title: Synthio: Augmenting Small-Scale Audio Classification Datasets with Synthetic Data
• Authors: Sreyan Ghosh, Sonal Kumar, Zhifeng Kong, Rafael Valle, Bryan Catanzaro, Dinesh Manocha,
• Abstract summary: We present Synthio, a novel approach for augmenting small-scale audio classification datasets with synthetic data. To overcome the first challenge, we align the generations of the T2A model with the small-scale dataset using preference optimization. To address the second challenge, we propose a novel caption generation technique that leverages the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We present Synthio, a novel approach for augmenting small-scale audio classification datasets with synthetic data. Our goal is to improve audio classification accuracy with limited labeled data. Traditional data augmentation techniques, which apply artificial transformations (e.g., adding random noise or masking segments), struggle to create data that captures the true diversity present in real-world audios. To address this shortcoming, we propose to augment the dataset with synthetic audio generated from text-to-audio (T2A) diffusion models. However, synthesizing effective augmentations is challenging because not only should the generated data be acoustically consistent with the underlying small-scale dataset, but they should also have sufficient compositional diversity. To overcome the first challenge, we align the generations of the T2A model with the small-scale dataset using preference optimization. This ensures that the acoustic characteristics of the generated data remain consistent with the small-scale dataset. To address the second challenge, we propose a novel caption generation technique that leverages the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models to (1) generate diverse and meaningful audio captions and (2) iteratively refine their quality. The generated captions are then used to prompt the aligned T2A model. We extensively evaluate Synthio on ten datasets and four simulated limited-data settings. Results indicate our method consistently outperforms all baselines by 0.1%-39% using a T2A model trained only on weakly-captioned AudioSet.

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