Summary of How Do Hyenas Deal with Human Speech? Speech Recognition and Translation with Confhyena, by Marco Gaido et al.
How do Hyenas deal with Human Speech? Speech Recognition and Translation with ConfHyena
by Marco Gaido, Sara Papi, Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel attention mechanism, Hyena, has been developed to address the quadratic complexity issue with processing long sequences in neural models. This breakthrough has led to competitive results in language modeling and image classification while reducing memory and computational complexity. Building on these findings, researchers propose ConfHyena, a Conformer-based model that replaces self-attentions with an adapted version of Hyena for speech processing, where lengthy input sequences pose significant computational challenges. Experimental results demonstrate that the best-performing ConfHyena model reduces training time by 27% at a cost of minimal quality degradation (~1%), which in most cases is not statistically significant. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A team of researchers has found a way to make neural networks work better with long pieces of information. This is important because many tasks, like recognizing spoken words or translating text, require processing large amounts of data. The new approach, called ConfHyena, can handle these tasks more efficiently than before. It achieves this by using a special kind of attention mechanism that’s designed specifically for speech processing. The results show that ConfHyena can speed up the training process without sacrificing too much accuracy. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Image classification
