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Multi-level Attention Model for Weakly Supervised Audio Classification

6 Mar 2018arXiv:1803.02353archive 2025-07-28

Changsong Yu, Karim Said Barsim, Qiuqiang Kong, Bin Yang

In this paper, we propose a multi-level attention model to solve the weakly labelled audio classification problem. The objective of audio classification is to predict the presence or absence of audio events in an audio clip. Recently, Google published a large scale weakly labelled dataset called Audio Set, where each audio clip contains only the presence or absence of the audio events, without the onset and offset time of the audio events. Our multi-level attention model is an extension to the previously proposed single-level attention model. It consists of several attention modules applied on intermediate neural network layers. The output of these attention modules are concatenated to a vector followed by a multi-label classifier to make the final prediction of each class. Experiments shown that our model achieves a mean average precision (mAP) of 0.360, outperforms the state-of-the-art single-level attention model of 0.327 and Google baseline of 0.314.

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