Token Pruning Meets Audio: Investigating Unique Behaviors in Vision Transformer-Based Audio Classification

Published: 22 Jan 2025, Last Modified: 13 Mar 2025ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn SubmissionEveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY 4.0
Keywords: Audio Spectrogram Transformer, Token Pruning
TL;DR: Token pruning in ViT for audio classification retains both low-intensity background tokens and high-intensity signal tokens and both of them contribute to classification accuracy.
Abstract: This submission is withdrawn due to errors in our token pruning analysis, which led to inaccurate claims regarding the retention of signal versus background tokens in AudioMAE-TopK. We have withdrawn our paper to prevent researchers from directly downloading it via the permanent hyperlink on OpenReview and relying on flawed information for their experiments. Please refer to the withdrawal statement for details. We are truly sorry for any inconvenience our error has caused.
Primary Area: other topics in machine learning (i.e., none of the above)
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