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Meng Cai

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arXiv2020

Dynamic latency speech recognition with asynchronous revision

In this work we propose an inference technique, asynchronous revision, to unify streaming and non-streaming speech recognition models. Specifically, we achieve dynamic latency with only one model by using arbitrary right context during inference. The model is composed of a stack of convolutional layers for audio encoding. In inference stage, the history states of encoder and decoder can be asynchronously revised to trade off between the latency and the accuracy of the model. To alleviate training and inference mismatch, we propose a training technique, segment cropping, which randomly splits input utterances into several segments with forward connections. This allows us to have dynamic latency speech recognition results with large improvements in accuracy. Experiments show that our dynamic latency model with asynchronous revision gives 8\%-14\% relative improvements over the streaming models.

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arXiv2020

Improving RNN transducer with normalized jointer network

Recurrent neural transducer (RNN-T) is a promising end-to-end (E2E) model in automatic speech recognition (ASR). It has shown superior performance compared to traditional hybrid ASR systems. However, training RNN-T from scratch is still challenging. We observe a huge gradient variance during RNN-T training and suspect it hurts the performance. In this work, we analyze the cause of the huge gradient variance in RNN-T training and proposed a new \textit{normalized jointer network} to overcome it. We also propose to enhance the RNN-T network with a modified conformer encoder network and transformer-XL predictor networks to achieve the best performance. Experiments are conducted on the open 170-hour AISHELL-1 and industrial-level 30000-hour mandarin speech dataset. On the AISHELL-1 dataset, our RNN-T system gets state-of-the-art results on AISHELL-1's streaming and non-streaming benchmark with CER 6.15\% and 5.37\% respectively. We further compare our RNN-T system with our well trained commercial hybrid system on 30000-hour-industry audio data and get 9\% relative improvement without pre-training or external language model.

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arXiv2019

Application of Machine Learning in Fiber Nonlinearity Modeling and Monitoring for Elastic Optical Networks

Fiber nonlinear interference (NLI) modeling and monitoring are the key building blocks to support elastic optical networks (EONs). In the past, they were normally developed and investigated separately. Moreover, the accuracy of the previously proposed methods still needs to be improved for heterogenous dynamic optical networks. In this paper, we present the application of machine learning (ML) in NLI modeling and monitoring. In particular, we first propose to use ML approaches to calibrate the errors of current fiber nonlinearity models. The Gaussian-noise (GN) model is used as an illustrative example, and significant improvement is demonstrated with the aid of an artificial neural network (ANN). Further, we propose to use ML to combine the modeling and monitoring schemes for a better estimation of NLI variance. The following contents are the listed errors as mentioned in the comments for reasons of withdrawal. (1) The works, as mentioned as the title, should be addressed is about the elastic optical networks(EON), however, the simulation setup and the results section are focused on the conventional wavelength division multiplexing(WDM) networks. This error may confuse some researcher, getting the misleading decision for the researches about the elastic optical networks. (2) There exists some errors in the results rection, such as, Fig.9(b) and (c) with the wrong captions may result in misleading decision. (3) The split-step-Fourier-method(SSFM) presents good accuracy if the sufficiently small steps are adopted in the calculation, however this paper has not necessary contents and efforts to optimise the step-length of SSFM. This error may confuse the accuracy of simulation results. Therefore, we decide to withdraw this paper from arXiv. The correct and complete paper with the same title was published in journal of lightwave technology with doi: 10.1109/JLT.2019.2910143.

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