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atasets with thousands of classes can be high performing, even on out-of-domain down- stream tasks. Next, the ‘bittern lesson’ learned when training Perch 2.0 was that bird species classification in particular is a challenging su- pervision…

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V2.348 kHz3.0102420.0MBirds, Frogs AVES-bio16 kHzVariable768 2 94.4MGeneral Audio BirdAVES (large)16 kHzVariable1024 3 315.4MGeneral Audio + Birds 4 Comparison models. As our goal is to provide guidance on which pretrained embedding models …

ludes new classes unseen by the models. The classes used in the NOAA PIPAN evaluation set include anthropomorphic noise, unknown whale species, and the following baleen whale species: common minke whale, humpback whale, sei whale, blue whal…

ained on log-mel spectrograms using a classification loss. Additionally, the model used a form of self-distillation and a self-supervised loss (in the form of source recording prediction) with the goal of producing strong embeddings that ar…

ion as new sounds are discovered while not having large amounts of human labeled data. Despite these challenges, passive acoustic monitoring is a critical tool for marine conservation and ecology (Fleishman et al., 2023), and discoveries ab…

Perch 2.0 transfers ‘whale’ to underwater tasks Andrea Burns ∗ Google DeepMind Lauren Harrell ∗ Google Research Bart van Merriënboer Google DeepMind Vincent Dumoulin Google DeepMind Jenny Hamer Google DeepMind Tom Denton Google DeepMind Abs…

monitoring. Ecol. Inform., 61(101236):101236, Mar. 2021. 6 J. Kaplan, S. McCandlish, T. Henighan, T. B. Brown, B. Chess, R. Child, S. Gray, A. Radford, J. Wu, and D. Amodei. Scaling laws for neural language models. arXiv [cs.LG], Jan. 2020…

e datasets with thousands of classes can be high performing, even on out-of-domain down- stream tasks. Next, the ‘bittern lesson’ learned when training Perch 2.0 was that bird species classification in particular is a challenging su- pervis…

ce on which pretrained embedding models should be used for agile modeling and transfer learning (with existing tools), we limit our comparisons to models supported in the Perch Hoplite Github repository 5 . We compare the performance of the…

l of producing strong embeddings that are linearly separable for a wide range of bioacoustics tasks. Embeddings from the Perch model have shown successful generalization to tasks other than species classification (e.g., individual identific…

Perch 2.0 transfers ‘whale’ to underwater tasks Andrea Burns ∗ Google DeepMind Lauren Harrell ∗ Google Research Bart van Merriënboer Google DeepMind Vincent Dumoulin Google DeepMind Jenny Hamer Google DeepMind Tom Denton Google DeepMind Abs…

Perch 2.0 transfers ‘whale’ to underwater tasks Andrea Burns ∗ Google DeepMind Lauren Harrell ∗ Google Research Bart van Merriënboer Google DeepMind Vincent Dumoulin Google DeepMind Jenny Hamer Google DeepMind Tom Denton Google DeepMind A…