Andrew Bydlon

This work presents advancements in audio pretraining objectives designed to generate semantically rich embeddings, capable of addressing a wide range of audio-related tasks. Despite significant progress in the field, current methods often emphasize full fine-tuning in downstream applications, which can obscure the true potential of pretrained audio encoders.

Cross-triggering is a critical problem for applications of audio event detection (AED), particularly in low-resource settings. However, not much attention (if not none) has been paid to this problem in the AED research community. In this work, we tackle this problem via a regularization approach. We propose a regularizer, namely mutual exclusivity regularizer, that is able to enforce pairwise exclusivity between two event classes when they do not co-occur.