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Knowledge Distillation for Speech Denoising by Latent Representation Alignment with Cosine Distance

Diep Luong·Mikko Heikkinen·Konstantinos Drossos·Tuomas Virtanen
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Speech denoising is a generally adopted and impactful task, appearing in many common and everyday-life use cases. Although there are very powerful methods published, most of those are too complex for deployment in everyday and low-resources computational environments, like hand-held devices, intelligent glasses, hearing aids, etc. Knowledge distillation (KD) is a prominent way for alleviating this complexity mismatch and is based on the transferring/distilling of knowledge from a pre-trained complex model, the teacher, to another less complex one, the student. Existing KD methods for speech denoising are based on processes that potentially hamper the KD by bounding the learning of the student to the distribution, information ordering, and feature dimensionality learned by the teacher. In this paper, we present and assess a method that tries to treat this issue, by exploiting the well-known denoising-autoencoder framework, the linear inverted bottlenecks, and the properties of the cosine similarity. We use a public dataset and conduct repeated experiments with different mismatching scenarios between the teacher and the student, reporting the mean and standard deviation of the metrics of our method and another, state-of-the-art method that is used as a baseline. Our results show that with the proposed method, the student can perform better and can also retain greater mismatching conditions compared to the teacher.

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Diep Luong, Mikko Heikkinen, Konstantinos Drossos, Tuomas Virtanen. 2025-05-06. Knowledge Distillation for Speech Denoising by Latent Representation Alignment with Cosine Distance. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03442

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