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tfp.mcmc: Modern Markov Chain Monte Carlo Tools Built for Modern Hardware

Feb 04, 2020
Junpeng Lao, Christopher Suter, Ian Langmore, Cyril Chimisov, Ashish Saxena, Pavel Sountsov, Dave Moore, Rif A. Saurous, Matthew D. Hoffman, Joshua V. Dillon

* Based on extended abstract submitted to PROBPROG 2020

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Coincidence, Categorization, and Consolidation: Learning to Recognize Sounds with Minimal Supervision

Nov 14, 2019
Aren Jansen, Daniel P. W. Ellis, Shawn Hershey, R. Channing Moore, Manoj Plakal, Ashok C. Popat, Rif A. Saurous

* This extended version of a ICASSP 2020 submission under same title has an added figure and additional discussion for easier consumption

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Automatically Batching Control-Intensive Programs for Modern Accelerators

Oct 23, 2019
Alexey Radul, Brian Patton, Dougal Maclaurin, Matthew D. Hoffman, Rif A. Saurous

* 10 pages; under review for Systems and Machine Learning 2020

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Simple, Distributed, and Accelerated Probabilistic Programming

Nov 29, 2018
Dustin Tran, Matthew Hoffman, Dave Moore, Christopher Suter, Srinivas Vasudevan, Alexey Radul, Matthew Johnson, Rif A. Saurous

* Appears in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2018. Code available at http://bit.ly/2JpFipt

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VoiceFilter: Targeted Voice Separation by Speaker-Conditioned Spectrogram Masking

Oct 27, 2018
Quan Wang, Hannah Muckenhirn, Kevin Wilson, Prashant Sridhar, Zelin Wu, John Hershey, Rif A. Saurous, Ron J. Weiss, Ye Jia, Ignacio Lopez Moreno

* To be submitted to ICASSP 2019

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Towards End-to-End Prosody Transfer for Expressive Speech Synthesis with Tacotron

Mar 24, 2018
RJ Skerry-Ryan, Eric Battenberg, Ying Xiao, Yuxuan Wang, Daisy Stanton, Joel Shor, Ron J. Weiss, Rob Clark, Rif A. Saurous

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Style Tokens: Unsupervised Style Modeling, Control and Transfer in End-to-End Speech Synthesis

Mar 23, 2018
Yuxuan Wang, Daisy Stanton, Yu Zhang, RJ Skerry-Ryan, Eric Battenberg, Joel Shor, Ying Xiao, Fei Ren, Ye Jia, Rif A. Saurous

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On Using Backpropagation for Speech Texture Generation and Voice Conversion

Mar 08, 2018
Jan Chorowski, Ron J. Weiss, Rif A. Saurous, Samy Bengio

* Accepted to ICASSP 2018

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Natural TTS Synthesis by Conditioning WaveNet on Mel Spectrogram Predictions

Feb 16, 2018
Jonathan Shen, Ruoming Pang, Ron J. Weiss, Mike Schuster, Navdeep Jaitly, Zongheng Yang, Zhifeng Chen, Yu Zhang, Yuxuan Wang, RJ Skerry-Ryan, Rif A. Saurous, Yannis Agiomyrgiannakis, Yonghui Wu

* Accepted to ICASSP 2018

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Fixing a Broken ELBO

Feb 13, 2018
Alexander A. Alemi, Ben Poole, Ian Fischer, Joshua V. Dillon, Rif A. Saurous, Kevin Murphy

* 21 pages, 9 figures

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Neumann Optimizer: A Practical Optimization Algorithm for Deep Neural Networks

Dec 08, 2017
Shankar Krishnan, Ying Xiao, Rif A. Saurous

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TensorFlow Distributions

Nov 28, 2017
Joshua V. Dillon, Ian Langmore, Dustin Tran, Eugene Brevdo, Srinivas Vasudevan, Dave Moore, Brian Patton, Alex Alemi, Matt Hoffman, Rif A. Saurous

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Unsupervised Learning of Semantic Audio Representations

Nov 06, 2017
Aren Jansen, Manoj Plakal, Ratheet Pandya, Daniel P. W. Ellis, Shawn Hershey, Jiayang Liu, R. Channing Moore, Rif A. Saurous

* Submitted to ICASSP 2018

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Uncovering Latent Style Factors for Expressive Speech Synthesis

Nov 01, 2017
Yuxuan Wang, RJ Skerry-Ryan, Ying Xiao, Daisy Stanton, Joel Shor, Eric Battenberg, Rob Clark, Rif A. Saurous

* Submitted to NIPS ML4Audio workshop and ICASSP

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Tacotron: Towards End-to-End Speech Synthesis

Apr 06, 2017
Yuxuan Wang, RJ Skerry-Ryan, Daisy Stanton, Yonghui Wu, Ron J. Weiss, Navdeep Jaitly, Zongheng Yang, Ying Xiao, Zhifeng Chen, Samy Bengio, Quoc Le, Yannis Agiomyrgiannakis, Rob Clark, Rif A. Saurous

* Submitted to Interspeech 2017. v2 changed paper title to be consistent with our conference submission (no content change other than typo fixes)

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Deep Probabilistic Programming

Mar 07, 2017
Dustin Tran, Matthew D. Hoffman, Rif A. Saurous, Eugene Brevdo, Kevin Murphy, David M. Blei

* Appears in International Conference on Learning Representations, 2017. A companion webpage for this paper is available at http://edwardlib.org/iclr2017

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Scalable Learning of Non-Decomposable Objectives

Mar 01, 2017
Elad ET. Eban, Mariano Schain, Alan Mackey, Ariel Gordon, Rif A. Saurous, Gal Elidan

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CNN Architectures for Large-Scale Audio Classification

Jan 10, 2017
Shawn Hershey, Sourish Chaudhuri, Daniel P. W. Ellis, Jort F. Gemmeke, Aren Jansen, R. Channing Moore, Manoj Plakal, Devin Platt, Rif A. Saurous, Bryan Seybold, Malcolm Slaney, Ron J. Weiss, Kevin Wilson

* Accepted for publication at ICASSP 2017 Changes: Added definitions of mAP, AUC, and d-prime. Updated mAP/AUC/d-prime numbers for Audio Set based on changes of latest Audio Set revision. Changed wording to fit 4 page limit with new additions

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AutoMOS: Learning a non-intrusive assessor of naturalness-of-speech

Nov 28, 2016
Brian Patton, Yannis Agiomyrgiannakis, Michael Terry, Kevin Wilson, Rif A. Saurous, D. Sculley

* 4 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, NIPS 2016 End-to-end Learning for Speech and Audio Processing Workshop

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Trainable Frontend For Robust and Far-Field Keyword Spotting

Jul 19, 2016
Yuxuan Wang, Pascal Getreuer, Thad Hughes, Richard F. Lyon, Rif A. Saurous

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