Yuqing Tang

Multilingual Speech Translation with Efficient Finetuning of Pretrained Models

2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)

We present a simple yet effective approach to build multilingual speech-to-text (ST) translation by efficient transfer learning from pretrained speech encoder and text decoder. Our key finding is that a minimalistic LNA (LayerNorm and Attention) …

Incremental user embedding modeling for personalized text classification

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Individual user profiles and interaction histories play a significant role in providing customized experiences in real-world applications such as chatbots, social media, retail, and education. Adaptive user representation learning by utilizing user personalized information has …