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FastICARL: Fast incremental classifier and representation learning with efficient budget allocation in audio sensing applications

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Peer-reviewed

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Conference Object

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Authors

Kwon, YD 
Chauhan, J 
Mascolo, C 

Abstract

Various incremental learning (IL) approaches have been proposed to help deep learning models learn new tasks/classes continuously without forgetting what was learned previously (i.e., avoid catastrophic forgetting). With the growing number of deployed audio sensing applications that need to dynamically incorporate new tasks and changing input distribution from users, the ability of IL on-device becomes essential for both efficiency and user privacy. However, prior works suffer from high computational costs and storage demands which hinders the deployment of IL on-device. In this work, to overcome these limitations, we develop an end-to-end and on-device IL framework, FastICARL, that incorporates an exemplar-based IL and quantization in the context of audio-based applications. We first employ k-nearest-neighbor to reduce the latency of IL. Then, we jointly utilize a quantization technique to decrease the storage requirements of IL. We implement FastICARL on two types of mobile devices and demonstrate that FastICARL remarkably decreases the IL time up to 78-92% and the storage requirements by 2-4 times without sacrificing its performance. FastICARL enables complete on-device IL, ensuring user privacy as the user data does not need to leave the device.

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Keywords

Incremental Learning, Continual Learning, Emotion Recognition, Sound Classification, Quantization

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Conference Name

Interspeech 2021

Journal ISSN

2308-457X
1990-9772

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Publisher

ISCA

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All rights reserved
Sponsorship
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) ERC (833296)