We describe a neural network-based system for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis that is able to generate speech audio in the voice of many different speakers, including those unseen during training. Our system consists of three independently trained components: (1) a speaker encoder network, trained on a speaker verification task using an independent dataset of noisy speech from thousands of speakers without transcripts, to generate a fixed-dimensional embedding vector from seconds of reference speech from a target speaker; (2) a sequence-to-sequence synthesis network based on Tacotron 2, which generates a mel spectrogram from text, conditioned on the speaker embedding; (3) an auto-regressive WaveNet-based vocoder that converts the mel spectrogram into a sequence of time domain waveform samples. We demonstrate that the proposed model is able to transfer the knowledge of speaker variability learned by the discriminatively-trained speaker encoder to the new task, and is able to synthesize natural speech from speakers that were not seen during training. We quantify the importance of training the speaker encoder on a large and diverse speaker set in order to obtain the best generalization performance. Finally, we show that randomly sampled speaker embeddings can be used to synthesize speech in the voice of novel speakers dissimilar from those used in training, indicating that the model has learned a high quality speaker representation.

Precision medicine aims for personalized prognosis and therapeutics by utilizing recent genome-scale high-throughput profiling techniques, including next-generation sequencing (NGS). However, translating NGS data faces several challenges. First, NGS count data are often overdispersed, requiring appropriate modeling. Second, compared to the number of involved molecules and system complexity, the number of available samples for studying complex disease, such as cancer, is often limited, especially considering disease heterogeneity. The key question is whether we may integrate available data from all different sources or domains to achieve reproducible disease prognosis based on NGS count data. In this paper, we develop a Bayesian Multi-Domain Learning (BMDL) model that derives domain-dependent latent representations of overdispersed count data based on hierarchical negative binomial factorization for accurate cancer subtyping even if the number of samples for a specific cancer type is small. Experimental results from both our simulated and NGS datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) demonstrate the promising potential of BMDL for effective multi-domain learning without ``negative transfer'' effects often seen in existing multi-task learning and transfer learning methods.

RL problems through the idea of "learning to learn". Current meta-RL methods can be classified in to two categories. These methods mainly differ in their ways of inference [3, 4, 20]. The other line follows the technique of relabeling that enables sample reuse across tasks, i.e., learning a task Packer et al. apply hindsight relabeling for meta-RL, and propose hindsight task relabeling (HTR) to relabel the trajectories Taking a step further than hindsight relabelling, Wan et al. introduce additionally foresight Huang et al. derive a general form of policy gradient from DR value estimator [29], whereas a DR off-policy actor-critic Kallus et al. propose the doubly robust method to find a robust policy that can Depending on the knowledge to be transferred, these methods in RL can be roughly divided into classes including sampled transitions [32, 33], learned policies or value networks [34, 35, 36, 37], features [38, 39, 40], and skills [41, 42]. Doubly Robust Property for Direct Use of Doubly Robust Estimator We show the doubly robust property of the DR estimator for value function in Eq. (5) in the main text, as follows.

Presented with class names or unlabeled test samples, Neural Priming enables the model to recall and conditions its parameters on relevant data seen throughout pretraining, thereby priming it for the test distribution. Neural Priming can be performed at inference, even for pretraining datasets as large as LAION-2B. Performing lightweight updates on the recalled data significantly improves accuracy across a variety of distribution shift and transfer learning benchmarks.

We study transfer learning for estimation in latent variable network models.

In this paper, we aim at parameter and computation efficient transfer learning (PCETL) for VLP models.

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