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Tobias Raichle

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arXiv2026

Test-Time Adaptation For Speech Enhancement Via Mask Polarization

Adapting speech enhancement (SE) models to unseen environments is crucial for practical deployments, yet test-time adaptation (TTA) for SE remains largely under-explored due to a lack of understanding of how SE models degrade under domain shifts. We observe that mask-based SE models lose confidence under domain shifts, with predicted masks becoming flattened and losing decisive speech preservation and noise suppression. Based on this insight, we propose mask polarization (MPol), a lightweight TTA method that restores mask bimodality through distribution comparison using the Wasserstein distance. MPol requires no additional parameters beyond the trained model, making it suitable for resource-constrained edge deployments. Experimental results across diverse domain shifts and architectures demonstrate that MPol achieves very consistent gains that are competitive with significantly more complex approaches.

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arXiv2025

Test-Time Adaptation for Speech Enhancement via Domain Invariant Embedding Transformation

Deep learning-based speech enhancement models achieve remarkable performance when test distributions match training conditions, but often degrade when deployed in unpredictable real-world environments with domain shifts. To address this challenge, we present LaDen (latent denoising), the first test-time adaptation method specifically designed for speech enhancement. Our approach leverages powerful pre-trained speech representations to perform latent denoising, approximating clean speech representations through a linear transformation of noisy embeddings. We show that this transformation generalizes well across domains, enabling effective pseudo-labeling for target domains without labeled target data. The resulting pseudo-labels enable effective test-time adaptation of speech enhancement models across diverse acoustic environments. We propose a comprehensive benchmark spanning multiple datasets with various domain shifts, including changes in noise types, speaker characteristics, and languages. Our extensive experiments demonstrate that LaDen consistently outperforms baseline methods across perceptual metrics, particularly for speaker and language domain shifts.

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arXiv2024

A Lost Opportunity for Vision-Language Models: A Comparative Study of Online Test-Time Adaptation for Vision-Language Models

In deep learning, maintaining model robustness against distribution shifts is critical. This work explores a broad range of possibilities to adapt vision-language foundation models at test-time, with a particular emphasis on CLIP and its variants. The study systematically examines prompt-based techniques and existing test-time adaptation methods, aiming to improve the robustness under distribution shift in diverse real-world scenarios. Specifically, the investigation covers various prompt engineering strategies, including handcrafted prompts, prompt ensembles, and prompt learning techniques. Additionally, we introduce a vision-text-space ensemble that substantially enhances average performance compared to text-space-only ensembles. Since online test-time adaptation has shown to be effective to mitigate performance drops under distribution shift, the study extends its scope to evaluate the effectiveness of existing test-time adaptation methods that were originally designed for vision-only classification models. Through extensive experimental evaluations conducted across multiple datasets and diverse model architectures, the research demonstrates the effectiveness of these adaptation strategies. Code is available at: https://github.com/mariodoebler/test-time-adaptation

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