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Umberto Cappellazzo

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Preprint Aug 2026

Listening Forward: Next Patch Embedding Prediction Enables Scalable Audio Learners

NAPE (Next-Audio-Patch-Embedding prediction), a self-supervised framework in which a causal Transformer predicts each next patch embedding of a log-mel spectrogram from the previous ones, using causal masking and stop-gradient as its sole training signal is introduced.

Umberto Cappellazzo, Xu-Bo Liu, Stavros Petridis et al. · 0 citations