Apple Workshop on Machine Learning for Health: Prospective evaluation of smartwatch-Enabled Detection of Left Ventricular Dysfunction
AuthorsDr. Zachi Attia (Mayo Clinic)
Apple Workshop on Machine Learning for Health: Prospective evaluation of smartwatch-Enabled Detection of Left Ventricular Dysfunction
AuthorsDr. Zachi Attia (Mayo Clinic)
Language Discrimination Improves Linguistic Learning in Multilingual Speech Models
October 2, 2026research area Speech and Natural Language Processing
Multilingual self-supervised speech models can benefit from sharing information across languages, but under a matched total pretraining data budget they still fall short of monolingual models. We show that strengthening the model’s ability to discriminate languages during pretraining reduces and, on some measures, closes this multilingual gap on continuous phonetic and higher-level linguistic measures, while preserving substantial cross-language…
Discrete diffusion, including remasking and uniform-state samplers, generate a sequence by writing multiple token positions per step, drawing each from a per-position distribution and choosing which positions to write from those same distributions. For domains of general interest (pixels, phonemes, or words) there are inherent dependencies between tokens. We show that a step matches the training distribution only when the positions it writes are…