Music Auto-tagging in the long tail: A few-shot approach

Ma TA, Lerch A. Music Auto-tagging in the long tail: A few-shot approach. In: Convention Paper. Audio Engineering Society; 2024. Paper 10201. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22704

@inproceedings{Ma2024_22704,
  author = {Ma, T. Aleksandra and Lerch, Alexander},
  title = {{Music Auto-tagging in the long tail: A few-shot approach}},
  note = {Paper 10201},
  year = {2024},
  month = sep,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22704}
}

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TI  - Music Auto-tagging in the long tail: A few-shot approach
AU  - Ma, T. Aleksandra
AU  - Lerch, Alexander
M1  - Paper 10201
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/09/27
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22704
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - In the realm of digital music, using tags to efficiently organize and retrieve music from extensive databases is crucial for music catalog owners. Human tagging by experts is labor-intensive but mostly accurate, whereas automatic tagging through supervised learning has approached satisfying accuracy but is restricted to a predefined set of training tags. Few-shot learning offers a viable solution to expand beyond this small set of predefined tags by enabling models to learn from only a few human-provided examples to understand tag meanings and subsequently apply these tags autonomously. We propose to integrate few-shot learning methodology into multi-label music auto-tagging by using features from pre-trained models as inputs to a lightweight linear classifier, also known as a linear probe. We investigate different popular pre-trained features, as well as different few-shot parametrizations with varying numbers of classes and samples per class. Our experiments demonstrate that a simple model with pre-trained features can achieve performance close to state-of-the-art models while using significantly less training data, such as 20 samples per tag. Additionally, our linear probe performs competitively with leading models when trained on the entire training dataset. The results show that this transfer learning-based few-shot approach could effectively address the issue of automatically assigning long-tail tags with only limited labeled data.
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