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LHGNN: Local-Higher Order Graph Neural Networks For Audio Classification and Tagging

7 Jan 2025arXiv:2501.03464archive 2025-07-28

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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Audio ClassificationGraph Neural Network

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
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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