Summary of The Brain’s Bitter Lesson: Scaling Speech Decoding with Self-supervised Learning, by Dulhan Jayalath et al.
The Brain’s Bitter Lesson: Scaling Speech Decoding With Self-Supervised Learning
by Dulhan Jayalath, Gilad Landau, Brendan Shillingford, Mark Woolrich, Oiwi Parker Jones
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents a breakthrough in decoding speech from brain activity by developing self-supervised objectives and architectures that can learn from heterogeneous brain recordings, leveraging large-scale deep learning to achieve generalization across participants, datasets, tasks, and even novel subjects. The approach scales to nearly 400 hours of MEG data and 900 subjects, outperforming state-of-the-art models by 15-27% and matching surgical decoding performance with non-invasive data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper makes big progress in reading brain activity to understand what people are saying. Right now, scientists can only do this for individual people because everyone’s brain is a little different. The researchers wanted to find a way to use brain recordings from many people to teach computers how to recognize speech. They developed new ways to train computers using brain data and tested it on a huge amount of recording data from almost 1,000 people. It worked really well and can even work with new people’s brain recordings. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Deep learning * Generalization * Self supervised
