Artificial Intelligence · 18.08.2026, 15:40 UTC
A Parameter-Free Few-Shot Evaluation for Elephant Vocalisation Classification
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| Kategorie | Artificial Intelligence |
| Quelle | arXiv cs.LG ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 18.08.2026 UTC |
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arXiv:2608.14824v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a parameter-free episodic evaluation of nearest-centroid classification for elephant vocalisations on fixed pretrained acoustic embeddings, across the Elephant Voices (EV) and Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) datasets. Rather than asking which embedding yields the best classifier when trained on all available labelled data, we ask how the simplest classifier performs as labelled exemplars per class are varied. Each class is represented by the mean of its support-set embeddings, and each query is assigned to the nearest centroid under squared Euclidean distance. We evaluate this centroid classifier on the Perch (ver. 1), Perch (ver. 2), and HuBERT (base, layer 2) embeddings, together with mel frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) features, in an N-way k-shot manner under the same cross-validation protocol as the trained baselines. A bootstrap over 100 resampled support sets quantifies the sampling noise. On the smaller, low-resource EV dataset, the centroid classifier using the stronger Perch (ver. 1) and Perch (ver. 2) embeddings overtakes the fully-trained logistic regression classifier from a single exemplar per class and the stronger recurrent classifier from two. Over the reduced set of call types on which the strongly-supervised end-to-end baseline was trained, the centroid classifier matches and then surpasses that baseline in mean average precision (mAP), from a few exemplars per class. On the larger LDC dataset, where labelled exemplars are abundant, the trained baselines retain their advantage at every …