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NatureLM-audio: An Audio-Language Foundation Model for Bioacoustics
David Robinson, Marius Miron, Masato Hagiwara, Olivier Pietquin
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BAGEL: Benchmarking Animal Knowledge Expertise in Language Models
Jiacheng Shen, Masato Hagiwara, Milad Alizadeh, Ellen Gilsenan-McMahon, Marius Miron, David Robinson, Emmanuel Chemla, Sara Keen, Gagan Narula, Mathieu Laurière, Matthieu Geist, Olivier Pietquin
Multi-layer attentive probing improves transfer of audio representations for bioacoustics
Marius Miron, David Robinson, Masato Hagiwara, Titouan Parcollet, Jules Cauzinille, Gagan Narula, Milad Alizadeh, Ellen Gilsenan-McMahon, Sara Keen, Emmanuel Chemla, Benjamin Hoffman, Maddie Cusimano, Diane Kim, Felix Effenberger, Jane K. Lawton, Aza Raskin, Olivier Pietquin, Matthieu Geist
Ancestral iconicity: the dance language of bees revisited
Philippe Schlenker, Jonathan Lamberton, Nur Lan, Jason Lamberton, Carlo Geraci, Ambre Salis, Lucie Ravaux, Christoph Grüter, Robin J. Ryder, Emmanuel Chemla
Repertoire-wide contextual mapping reveals signal functions in cooperatively breeding crows
Maddie Cusimano, Benjamin Hoffman, Carlos Guzón-García, Angela Mcenerey, Margaret Bezrutczyk, Jen-Yu Liu, Logan S. James, Sara C. Keen, Louis Mahon, Olivier Pietquin, Milad Alizadeh, Damián E. Blasi, Matthieu Geist, Marius Marion, David Robinson, Marta Vila, Eva Trapote, Christian Rutz, Emmanuel Chemla, Daniela Canestrari, Vittorio Baglione
AI evolution: bring biomimicry to language models
Adriano R Lameira, Olivier Pietquin
AI-powered playbacks engage in flexible vocal interactions with zebra finches
Logan S. James, Benjamin Hoffman, Jen-Yu Liu, Marius Miron, Milad Alizadeh, Emmanuel Fernandez, Matthieu Geist, Diane Kim, Aza Raskin, Jon T. Sakata, Emmanuel Chemla, Olivier Pietquin, Sarah C. Woolley
Compact Hypercube Embeddings for Fast Text-based Wildlife Observation Retrieval
Ilyass Moummad, Marius Miron, David Robinson, Kawtar Zaher, Hervé Goëau, Olivier Pietquin, Pierre Bonnet, Emmanuel Chemla, Matthieu Geist, Alexis Joly
Audio-to-Image Bird Species Retrieval without Audio-Image Pairs via Text Distillation
Ilyass Moummad, Marius Miron, Lukas Rauch, David Robinson, Alexis Joly, Olivier Pietquin, Emmanuel Chemla, Matthieu Geist
Capturing vocal communication in a free-living corvid: high-resolution data from low-impact miniaturized tags
Vittorio Baglione, Daniela Canestrari, Maddie Cusimano, Benjamin Hoffman, Victor Moreno, Eva Trapote
Crossing the Species Divide: Transfer Learning from Speech to Animal Sounds
Jules Cauzinille, Marius Miron, Olivier Pietquin, Masato Hagiwara, Ricard Marxer, Arnaud Rey, Benoit Favre
AVEX: What Matters for Animal Vocalization Encoding
Marius Miron, David Robinson, Milad Alizadeh, Ellen Gilsenan-McMahon, Gagan Narula, Emmanuel Chemla, Maddie Cusimano, Felix Effenberger, Masato Hagiwara, Benjamin Hoffman, Sara Keen, Diane Kim, Jane Lawton, Jen-Yu Liu, Aza Raskin, Olivier Pietquin, Matthieu Geist
Robust detection of overlapping bioacoustic sound events
Louis Mahon, Benjamin Hoffman, Logan S James, Maddie Cusimano, Masato Hagiwara, Sarah C Woolley, Olivier Pietquin
Synthetic data enables context-aware bioacoustic sound event detection
Benjamin Hoffman, David Robinson, Marius Miron, Vittorio Baglione, Daniela Canestrari, Damian Elias, Eva Trapote, Olivier Pietquin
Bio-logger Ethogram Benchmark (BEBE): A benchmark for the computational analysis of animal behavior, using animal-borne tags
Benjamin Hoffman, Maddie Cusimano, Vittorio Baglione, Daniela Canestrari, Damien Chevallier, Dominic L. DeSantis, Lorène Jeantet, Monique A. Ladds, Takuya Maekawa, Vicente Mata-Silva, Víctor Moreno-González, Anthony M. Pagano, Eva Trapote, Outi Vainio, Antti Vehkaoja, Ken Yoda, Katherine Zacarian & Ari Friedlaender
Biodenoising: Animal Vocalization Denoising Without Access to Clean Data
Marius Miron, Sara Keen, Jen-Yu Liu, Benjamin Hoffman, Masato Hagiwara, Olivier Pietquin, Felix Effenberger, Maddie Cusimano
ISPA: Inter-Species Phonetic Alphabet for Transcribing Animal Sounds
Masato Hagiwara, Marius Miron, Jen-Yu Liu
Using machine learning to decode animal communication
Christian Rutz, Michael Bronstein Aza Raskin, Sonja C. Vernes, Katherine Zacarian, Damian E. Blasi
BEANS: The Benchmark of Animal Sounds
Masato Hagiwara, Benjamin Hoffman, Jen-Yu Liu, Maddie Cusimano, Felix Effenberger, Katie Zacarian