eess.AS · 2026-08-21 · No. 91

Audio and Speech Processing, 2026-08-21.

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01 — The papers

2 entries
  1. 01

    $TCP_α$: Margin-Controlled Confidence estimation for reliable Music Information Retrieval

    Parampreet Singh, Anushka Singh, Sumit Kumar, Vipul Arora

    eess.AS · cs.LG

    Deep neural networks are often overconfident, assigning high confidence even to incorrect predictions. Consequently, users lack a reliable signal for deciding when a prediction can be trusted. Post-hoc confidence estimation addresses this by training a lightweight auxiliary head over a frozen classifier. Existing targets, however, suffer from inherent ambiguity: they assign overlapping confidence values to correct and incorrect predictions,...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.20326 · PDF

  2. 02

    Listening Forward: Next Patch Embedding Prediction Enables Scalable Audio Learners

    Umberto Cappellazzo, Xubo Liu, Stavros Petridis, Maja Pantic

    eess.AS · cs.AI · cs.SD

    Self-supervised learning (SSL) has driven substantial progress in audio representation learning, though existing methods have increasingly relied on elaborate pre-training recipes to reach competitive performance. A markedly different pre-training philosophy underpins the most influential progress in language modeling and, more recently, in visual representation learning: rather than train encoders as static feature extractors, models are...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.19863 · PDF

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