A Parameter-Free Few-Shot Evaluation for Elephant Vocalisation Classification

arXiv:2608.14824 · eess.AS, cs.LG, cs.SD, q-bio.QM · Submitted 2026-08-14 · Read on arXiv

eess.AS, cs.LG, cs.SD, q-bio.QM

Submitted: 2026-08-14

Updated: 2026-09-23

Terminology

• Embeddings — 63× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AUROC — 28× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Elephant Voices — 10× in this paper
• Few-Shot Learning — 7× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Linguistic Data Consortium — 7× in this paper
• Transfer Learning — 5× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Contrastive Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Representation Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-Supervised Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Human-in-the-Loop — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• wav2vec 2.0: A Framework for Self-Supervised Learning of Speech Representations
• Perch 2.0 transfers 'whale' to underwater tasks
• From Birdsong to Rumbles: Classifying Elephant Calls with Out-of-Species Embeddings
• HuBERT: Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning by Masked Prediction of Hidden Units
• Perch 2.0: The Bittern Lesson for Bioacoustics
• Contrastive Learning of General-Purpose Audio Representations

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