{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/audiotagging-done-right-2nd-comparison-of","title":"AudioTagging Done Right: 2nd comparison of deep learning methods for environmental sound classification","arxiv_id":"2203.13448","date":"2022-03-25","proceeding":null,"authors":["Juncheng B Li","Shuhui Qu","Po-Yao Huang","Florian Metze"],"abstract":"After its sweeping success in vision and language tasks, pure attention-based neural architectures (e.g. DeiT) are emerging to the top of audio tagging (AT) leaderboards, which seemingly obsoletes traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs), feed-forward networks or recurrent networks. However, taking a closer look, there is great variability in published research, for instance, performances of models initialized with pretrained weights differ drastically from without pretraining, training time for a model varies from hours to weeks, and often, essences are hidden in seemingly trivial details. This urgently calls for a comprehensive study since our 1st comparison is half-decade old. In this work, we perform extensive experiments on AudioSet which is the largest weakly-labeled sound event dataset available, we also did an analysis based on the data quality and efficiency. We compare a few state-of-the-art baselines on the AT task, and study the performance and efficiency of 2 major categories of neural architectures: CNN variants and attention-based variants. We also closely examine their optimization procedures. Our opensourced experimental results provide insights to trade-off between performance, efficiency, optimization process, for both practitioners and researchers. Implementation: https://github.com/lijuncheng16/AudioTaggingDoneRight","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13448v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.13448v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"audiotagging-done-right-2nd-comparison-of","repo_url":"https://github.com/lijuncheng16/AudioTaggingDoneRight","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"NOASSERTION"}}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2203.13448","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}