arrow
Return

Dynamic Slimmable Network for Speech Separation

delete2024-01-01
delete0
PRE
AI
M
Mohamed Elminshawi *
S
Srikanth Raj Chetupalli
E
Emanuël A. P. Habets
DOI:10.1109/LSP.2024.3445304delete
deleteOriginal
deleteOriginal request for help
deleteShare
deleteSave
Abstract

Abstract

En 中文
Neural networks for speech separation generally exhibit high computational costs and large memory footprints. Moreover, typical separation networks have a fixed computational graph that processes all input frames at a uniform computational cost, even though intensive processing may not be necessary for frames containing silence or a single active speaker. Addressing this computational inefficiency is especially crucial when these networks are deployed on resource-constrained devices. In this letter, we propose a dynamic slimmable network for speech separation that mitigates the computational inefficiency of existing networks. We introduce slimmable layers with a gating mechanism that can adapt their computational complexity based on the input characteristics. As an example, we propose to use the slimmable layers in the intra-chunk blocks of a dual-path structure-based network to facilitate adaptation based on the local characteristics of the input signal. Experimental evaluation on simulated two-speaker mixtures from the WSJ0-2mix dataset demonstrates that the proposed method substantially reduces the computational cost while maintaining comparable performance to fully utilized static networks.
Keywords:
Computational efficiency
Transformers
Computational complexity
Training
Kernel
Computational modeling
Vectors
Speech separation
conditional computation
dynamic slimmable network
transformer architecture

Journal

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine cover
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
IF:
9.6
Papers:
1.1W
Citations:
1.7W

Organization

U
University of Erlangen Nuremberg
Scholars:
3.2W
Papers: 2.6W
Citations: 29