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PublishedJuly 1, 2026 at 4:00 AM
BEST-RQ-2: Contextualize-Then-Predict, a Two-Step Approach for Self-Supervised Audio Representations
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arXiv:2606.30700v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning enables audio representations that transfer across domains and tasks. We present BEST-RQ-2, an evolution of BEST-RQ that retains frozen randomprojection-based discrete targets while introducing a two-step contextualize-then-p
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