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SPGM: Prioritizing Local Features for enhanced speech separation performance
Jia Qi Yip, Shengkui Zhao, Yukun Ma, Chongjia Ni, Chong Zhang, Hao Wang, Trung Hieu Nguyen, Kun Zhou, Dianwen Ng, Eng Siong Chng, Bin Ma
Dual-path is a popular architecture for speech separation models (e.g. Sepformer) which splits long sequences into overlapping chunks for its intra- and inter-blocks that separately model intra-chunk local features and inter-chunk global relationships. However, it has been found that inter-blocks, which comprise half a dual-path model's parameters, contribute minimally to performance. Thus, we propose the Single-Path Global Modulation (SPGM) block to replace inter-blocks. SPGM is named after its structure consisting of a parameter-free global pooling module followed by a modulation module comprising only 2% of the model's total parameters. The SPGM block allows all transformer layers in the model to be dedicated to local feature modelling, making the overall model single-path. SPGM achieves 22.1 dB SI-SDRi on WSJ0-2Mix and 20.4 dB SI-SDRi on Libri2Mix, exceeding the performance of Sepformer by 0.5 dB and 0.3 dB respectively and matches the performance of recent SOTA models with up to 8 times fewer parameters. Model and weights are available at huggingface.co/yipjiaqi/spgm
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speech Separation | WSJ0-2mix | SPGM + DM | MACs (G) | 77 | #12 of 40 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Speech Separation | WSJ0-2mix | SPGM + DM | Number of parameters (M) | 26.2 | #12 of 40 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Speech Separation | WSJ0-2mix | SPGM + DM | SI-SDRi | 22.7 | #12 of 40 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Speech Separation | WSJ0-2mix | SPGM | MACs (G) | 77 | #17 of 40 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Speech Separation | WSJ0-2mix | SPGM | Number of parameters (M) | 26.2 | #17 of 40 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Speech Separation | WSJ0-2mix | SPGM | SI-SDRi | 22.1 | #17 of 40 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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