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MetricGAN-OKD: Multi-Metric Optimization of MetricGAN via Online Knowledge Distillation for Speech Enhancement

24 Jul 2023ICML 2023 7archive 2025-07-28

WooSeok Shin, Byung Hoon Lee, Jin Sob Kim, Hyun Joon Park, Sung Won Han

In speech enhancement, MetricGAN-based approaches reduce the discrepancy between the Lₚ loss and evaluation metrics by utilizing a non-differentiable evaluation metric as the objective function. However, optimizing multiple metrics simultaneously remains challenging owing to the problem of confusing gradient directions. In this paper, we propose an effective multi-metric optimization method in MetricGAN via online knowledge distillation---MetricGAN-OKD. MetricGAN-OKD, which consists of multiple generators and target metrics, related by a one-to-one correspondence, enables generators to learn with respect to a single metric reliably while improving performance with respect to other metrics by mimicking other generators. Experimental results on speech enhancement and listening enhancement tasks reveal that the proposed method significantly improves performance in terms of multiple metrics compared to existing multi-metric optimization methods. Further, the good performance of MetricGAN-OKD is explained in terms of network generalizability and correlation between metrics.

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Knowledge DistillationSpeech Enhancement

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Speech Enhancement VoiceBank + DEMAND MetricGAN-OKD CBAK 3.07 #20 of 42 Archive leaderboard report
Speech Enhancement VoiceBank + DEMAND MetricGAN-OKD COVL 3.73 #20 of 42 Archive leaderboard report
Speech Enhancement VoiceBank + DEMAND MetricGAN-OKD CSIG 4.23 #20 of 42 Archive leaderboard report
Speech Enhancement VoiceBank + DEMAND MetricGAN-OKD PESQ (wb) 3.24 #20 of 42 Archive leaderboard report
Speech Enhancement VoiceBank + DEMAND MetricGAN-OKD Para. (M) 1.89 #20 of 42 Archive leaderboard report
Speech Enhancement VoiceBank + DEMAND MetricGAN-OKD (Causal Arch.) CBAK 3.13 #28 of 42 Archive leaderboard report
Speech Enhancement VoiceBank + DEMAND MetricGAN-OKD (Causal Arch.) COVL 3.64 #28 of 42 Archive leaderboard report
Speech Enhancement VoiceBank + DEMAND MetricGAN-OKD (Causal Arch.) CSIG 4.17 #28 of 42 Archive leaderboard report
Speech Enhancement VoiceBank + DEMAND MetricGAN-OKD (Causal Arch.) PESQ (wb) 3.12 #28 of 42 Archive leaderboard report
Speech Enhancement VoiceBank + DEMAND MetricGAN-OKD (Causal Arch.) Para. (M) 0.82 #28 of 42 Archive leaderboard report

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