30 accepted papers
Action Quality Assessment (AQA) aims to score how well an action is performed and is widely used in sports analysis, rehabilitation assessment, and human skill evaluation. Multi-modal AQA has recently achieved strong progress by leveraging complementary visual and kinematic cues, yet real-world depl
Perception for embodied agents is video-based, often multi-view (ego, exo, or both), and inherently continual, with simultaneous task and viewpoint shifts. Yet continual learning (CL) remains dominated by exo-only recognition tasks, obscuring behavior under these real-world coupled shifts. We introd…
The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has significantly promoted the development of code generation task, sparking a surge in pertinent literature. Current research is hindered by redundant generation results and a tendency to overfit local patterns in the short term. Although existing studi…
General continual learning (GCL) challenges intelligent systems to learn from single-pass, non-stationary data streams without clear task boundaries. While recent advances in continual parameter-efficient tuning (PET) of pretrained models show promise, they typically rely on multiple training epochs…
Referring 3D segmentation seeks to localize and segment target objects in a 3D scene given a natural-language query, requiring joint reasoning over geometric structures and linguistic cues. Although recent progress using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has improved rendering quality, existing methods s
To cope with uncertain changes of the external world, intelligent systems must continually learn from complex, evolving environments and respond in real time. This ability, collectively known as general continual learning (GCL), encapsulates practical challenges such as online datastreams and blurry…
Audio is a fundamental modality for analyzing speech, music, and environmental sounds. While pretrained audio models have significantly advanced audio understanding, they remain fragile in real-world scenarios where data distributions evolve over time. In this work, we present the first systematic b…
Foundation models have transformed machine learning through large-scale pretraining, massive parameterization, and increased test-time compute. Despite surpassing human performance in several domains, these models remain fundamentally limited in continuous operation, experience accumulation, and per…
General continual learning (GCL) is a broad concept to describe real-world continual learning (CL) problems, which are often characterized by online data streams without distinct transitions between tasks, i.e., blurry task boundaries. Such requirements result in poor initial performance, limited ge…
Audio super-resolution (SR), i.e., upsampling the low-resolution (LR) waveform to the high-resolution (HR) version, has recently been explored with diffusion and bridge models, while previous methods often suffer from sub-optimal upsampling quality due to their uninformative generation prior. Toward…
Large language models (LLMs), through pretraining on extensive corpora, encompass rich semantic knowledge and exhibit the potential for efficient adaptation to diverse downstream tasks. However, the intrinsic mechanisms underlying LLMs remain unexplored, limiting the efficacy of applying these model…
Knowledge distillation (KD) is a powerful strategy for training deep neural networks (DNNs). While it was originally proposed to train a more compact “student” model from a large “teacher” model, many recent efforts have focused on adapting it as an effective way to promote generalization of the mod…
With the rapid development of the big data era, Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has been widely applied to enable data collaboration while ensuring privacy protection. However, the ultrahigh dimensionality of features and the sparse data structures inherent in large-scale datasets introduce signif…
"Action Quality Assessment (AQA) evaluates diverse skills but models struggle with non-stationary data. We propose Continual AQA (CAQA) to refine models using sparse new data. Feature replay preserves memory without storing raw inputs. However, the misalignment between static old features and the dy…
To accommodate real-world dynamics artificial intelligence systems need to cope with sequentially arriving content in an online manner. Beyond regular Continual Learning (CL) attempting to address catastrophic forgetting with offline training of each task Online Continual Learning (OCL) is a more ch…
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for Text-to-SQL tasks, exhibiting remarkable reasoning capabilities. Different from tasks such as math word problem and commonsense reasoning, SQL solutions have a relatively fixed pattern. This facilitates the investigation of whether LLMs…
Prompt-based continual learning is an emerging direction in leveraging pre-trained knowledge for downstream continual learning, and has almost reached the performance pinnacle under supervised pre-training. However, our empirical research reveals that the current strategies fall short of their full…
Automatic pronunciation assessment is commonly trained and applied for a specific language, which is not practical in multi-lingual or low-resource scenarios. In this paper, we propose a unified method to take advantage of multi-lingual data for multi-lingual pronunciation assessment. To this end, w…
To tackle the recognition error problem for Automatic speech recognition (ASR), one common approach is to utilize text-based ASR error correction methods focusing on text error pat-terns. To include the audio information for better error correction, we propose a sequence-to-sequence multi-modal ASR…
Continual learning entails learning a sequence of tasks and balancing their knowledge appropriately. With limited access to old training samples, much of the current work in deep neural networks has focused on overcoming catastrophic forgetting of old tasks in gradient-based optimization. However, t…
Multi-modal speech emotion recognition (SER) brings performance improvement compared with single-modal systems. However, the ASR errors from text modality may deteriorate the SER performance. This paper proposes an SER method robust to ASR errors. We explore complementary semantic in-formation from…
The goal of continual learning is to improve the performance of recognition models in learning sequentially arrived data. Although most existing works are established on the premise of learning from scratch, growing efforts have been devoted to incorporating the benefits of pre-training. However, ho…
"Continual learning requires incremental compatibility with a sequence of tasks. However, the design of model architecture remains an open question: In general, learning all tasks with a shared set of parameters suffers from severe interference between tasks; while learning each task with a dedicate…
Automatic spoken language assessment plays an important role in assessing English proficiency of non-native learners, which involves tasks ranging from restricted tasks such as Repeat Sentences to more open-ended tasks such as unconstrained spontaneous speech. Traditional methods typically focus on…
Phoneme segmentation plays an important role in various speech processing applications such as keyword spotting, automatic pronunciation assessment, and automatic speech recognition. In this paper, we propose a method for phoneme segmentation based on a regularized attention mechanism. Specifically,…
Continual learning needs to overcome catastrophic forgetting of the past. Memory replay of representative old training samples has been shown as an effective solution, and achieves the state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. However, existing work is mainly built on a small memory buffer containing a f…
Phoneme mispronunciation detection plays an important role in Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training. Traditional methods either rely on phone recognition, which has the limitation of incapability of detecting mispronounced phonemes out of the dictionary, or the need of external phoneme alignment…
Continual learning aims to learn a sequence of tasks from dynamic data distributions. Without accessing to the old training samples, knowledge transfer from the old tasks to each new task is difficult to determine, which might be either positive or negative. If the old knowledge interferes with the…
Automatic pronunciation assessment plays an important role in Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT). Traditional methods for pronunciation assessment of reading aloud tasks utilize features derived from automatic speech recognition (ASR) and thus are sensitive to the accuracy of ASR and th…
Continual learning usually assumes the incoming data are fully labeled, which might not be applicable in real applications. In this work, we consider semi-supervised continual learning (SSCL) that incrementally learns from partially labeled data. Observing that existing continual learning methods la…