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LHGNN: Local-Higher Order Graph Neural Networks For Audio Classification and Tagging
Shubhr Singh, Emmanouil Benetos, Huy Phan, Dan Stowell
Transformers have set new benchmarks in audio processing tasks, leveraging self-attention mechanisms to capture complex patterns and dependencies within audio data. However, their focus on pairwise interactions limits their ability to process the higher-order relations essential for identifying distinct audio objects. To address this limitation, this work introduces the Local- Higher Order Graph Neural Network (LHGNN), a graph based model that enhances feature understanding by integrating local neighbourhood information with higher-order data from Fuzzy C-Means clusters, thereby capturing a broader spectrum of audio relationships. Evaluation of the model on three publicly available audio datasets shows that it outperforms Transformer-based models across all benchmarks while operating with substantially fewer parameters. Moreover, LHGNN demonstrates a distinct advantage in scenarios lacking ImageNet pretraining, establishing its effectiveness and efficiency in environments where extensive pretraining data is unavailable.
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audio Classification | Audio Set | LHGNN | Mean AP | 46.6 | #2 of 3 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Audio Classification | ESC-50 | LHGNN | Top-1 Accuracy | 96.2 | #12 of 29 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Audio Classification | FSD50K | LHGNN | Mean AP | 59 | #10 of 10 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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