{"id":"https://openalex.org/W7148405060","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/asru65441.2025.11434791","title":"TokenVerse++: Towards Flexible Multitask Learning with Dynamic Task Activation","display_name":"TokenVerse++: Towards Flexible Multitask Learning with Dynamic Task Activation","publication_year":2025,"publication_date":"2025-12-06","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W7148405060","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/asru65441.2025.11434791"},"language":null,"primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1109/asru65441.2025.11434791","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/asru65441.2025.11434791","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"2025 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5103977579","display_name":"Shashi Kumar","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9511-2131"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I7495430","display_name":"Idiap Research Institute","ror":"https://ror.org/05932h694","country_code":"CH","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I7495430"]}],"countries":["CH"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Shashi Kumar","raw_affiliation_strings":["Idiap Research Institute,Switzerland"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Idiap Research Institute,Switzerland","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I7495430"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5084521938","display_name":"Srikanth Madikeri","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4361-784X"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I202697423","display_name":"University of Zurich","ror":"https://ror.org/02crff812","country_code":"CH","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I202697423"]}],"countries":["CH"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Srikanth Madikeri","raw_affiliation_strings":["University of Zurich,Switzerland"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of Zurich,Switzerland","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I202697423"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5075765823","display_name":"Esa\u00fa Villatoro-Tello","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1322-0358"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I7495430","display_name":"Idiap Research Institute","ror":"https://ror.org/05932h694","country_code":"CH","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I7495430"]}],"countries":["CH"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Esa\u00fa Villatoro-Tello","raw_affiliation_strings":["Idiap Research Institute,Switzerland"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Idiap Research Institute,Switzerland","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I7495430"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5034706108","display_name":"Sergio Burdisso","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7694-6834"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I7495430","display_name":"Idiap Research Institute","ror":"https://ror.org/05932h694","country_code":"CH","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I7495430"]}],"countries":["CH"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Sergio Burdisso","raw_affiliation_strings":["Idiap Research Institute,Switzerland"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Idiap Research Institute,Switzerland","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I7495430"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5124371350","display_name":"Pradeep Rangappa","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I7495430","display_name":"Idiap Research Institute","ror":"https://ror.org/05932h694","country_code":"CH","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I7495430"]}],"countries":["CH"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Pradeep Rangappa","raw_affiliation_strings":["Idiap Research Institute,Switzerland"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Idiap Research Institute,Switzerland","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I7495430"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5132766425","display_name":"Andr\u00e1s Carofilis","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I7495430","display_name":"Idiap Research Institute","ror":"https://ror.org/05932h694","country_code":"CH","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I7495430"]}],"countries":["CH"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Andr\u00e1s Carofilis","raw_affiliation_strings":["Idiap Research Institute,Switzerland"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Idiap Research Institute,Switzerland","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I7495430"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5076409146","display_name":"Petr Motl\u00ed\u010dek","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6467-1119"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I7495430","display_name":"Idiap Research Institute","ror":"https://ror.org/05932h694","country_code":"CH","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I7495430"]}],"countries":["CH"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Petr Motlicek","raw_affiliation_strings":["Idiap Research Institute,Switzerland"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Idiap Research Institute,Switzerland","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I7495430"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5114245170","display_name":"Karthik Pandia","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I142204992","display_name":"University of Lahore","ror":"https://ror.org/051jrjw38","country_code":"PK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I142204992"]}],"countries":["PK"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Karthik Pandia","raw_affiliation_strings":["Uniphore,U.S.A"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Uniphore,U.S.A","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I142204992"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5020547781","display_name":"Shankar M. Venkatesan","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I142204992","display_name":"University of Lahore","ror":"https://ror.org/051jrjw38","country_code":"PK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I142204992"]}],"countries":["PK"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Shankar Venkatesan","raw_affiliation_strings":["Uniphore,U.S.A"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Uniphore,U.S.A","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I142204992"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5132732929","display_name":"Kadri Hacio\u011flu","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I142204992","display_name":"University of Lahore","ror":"https://ror.org/051jrjw38","country_code":"PK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I142204992"]}],"countries":["PK"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Kadri Hacio\u011flu","raw_affiliation_strings":["Uniphore,U.S.A"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Uniphore,U.S.A","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I142204992"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5132810639","display_name":"Andreas Stolcke","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I142204992","display_name":"University of Lahore","ror":"https://ror.org/051jrjw38","country_code":"PK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I142204992"]}],"countries":["PK"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Andreas Stolcke","raw_affiliation_strings":["Uniphore,U.S.A"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Uniphore,U.S.A","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I142204992"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":2,"institutions_distinct_count":11,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5103977579"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I7495430"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":0,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.87562671,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"1","last_page":"7"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11307","display_name":"Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning","score":0.1987999975681305,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11307","display_name":"Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning","score":0.1987999975681305,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11714","display_name":"Multimodal Machine Learning Applications","score":0.1859000027179718,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1707","display_name":"Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10462","display_name":"Reinforcement Learning in Robotics","score":0.03830000013113022,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/task","display_name":"Task (project management)","score":0.557699978351593},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/multi-task-learning","display_name":"Multi-task learning","score":0.45649999380111694},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/task-analysis","display_name":"Task analysis","score":0.2815000116825104},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/feature","display_name":"Feature (linguistics)","score":0.2759000062942505},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/state","display_name":"State (computer science)","score":0.2660999894142151}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.6330000162124634},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780451532","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q759676","display_name":"Task (project management)","level":2,"score":0.557699978351593},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C28006648","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6934509","display_name":"Multi-task learning","level":3,"score":0.45649999380111694},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.45159998536109924},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C107457646","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q207434","display_name":"Human\u2013computer interaction","level":1,"score":0.3095000088214874},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C175154964","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380077","display_name":"Task analysis","level":3,"score":0.2815000116825104},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776401178","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12050496","display_name":"Feature (linguistics)","level":2,"score":0.2759000062942505},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C48103436","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q599031","display_name":"State (computer science)","level":2,"score":0.2660999894142151},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C177264268","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1514741","display_name":"Set (abstract data type)","level":2,"score":0.2621999979019165},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C26517878","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q228039","display_name":"Key (lock)","level":2,"score":0.24529999494552612}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1109/asru65441.2025.11434791","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/asru65441.2025.11434791","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"2025 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)","raw_type":"proceedings-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":15,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W2973127116","https://openalex.org/W3011594683","https://openalex.org/W3095918555","https://openalex.org/W3111693342","https://openalex.org/W3176113532","https://openalex.org/W3198429080","https://openalex.org/W3203417382","https://openalex.org/W4283700324","https://openalex.org/W4297727296","https://openalex.org/W4391021773","https://openalex.org/W4392902925","https://openalex.org/W4392903630","https://openalex.org/W4392931212","https://openalex.org/W4408353174","https://openalex.org/W4410771025"],"related_works":[],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Token-based":[0],"multitasking":[1],"frameworks":[2],"like":[3],"TokenVerse":[4,97],"require":[5],"all":[6,13],"training":[7,51],"utterances":[8,53],"to":[9,18],"have":[10],"labels":[11],"for":[12,43,55,78],"tasks,":[14,60,100],"hindering":[15],"their":[16],"ability":[17],"leverage":[19],"partially":[20],"annotated":[21],"datasets":[22],"and":[23,80],"scale":[24],"effectively.":[25],"We":[26,66],"propose":[27],"TokenVerse++,":[28],"which":[29],"introduces":[30],"learnable":[31],"vectors":[32],"in":[33],"the":[34,39],"acoustic":[35],"embedding":[36],"space":[37],"of":[38,59],"XLSR-Transducer":[40],"ASR":[41,79,111],"model":[42],"dynamic":[44],"task":[45],"activation.":[46],"This":[47],"core":[48],"mechanism":[49],"enables":[50],"with":[52,74,94],"labeled":[54],"only":[56],"a":[57,61,72,104],"subset":[58],"key":[62],"advantage":[63],"over":[64],"TokenVerse.":[65],"demonstrate":[67],"this":[68],"by":[69],"successfully":[70],"integrating":[71],"dataset":[73],"partial":[75],"labels,":[76],"specifically":[77],"an":[81],"additional":[82],"task,":[83],"language":[84],"identification,":[85],"improving":[86],"overall":[87],"performance.":[88,112],"TokenVerse++":[89],"achieves":[90],"results":[91],"on":[92],"par":[93],"or":[95],"exceeding":[96],"across":[98],"multiple":[99],"establishing":[101],"it":[102],"as":[103],"more":[105],"practical":[106],"multitask":[107],"alternative":[108],"without":[109],"sacrificing":[110]},"counts_by_year":[],"updated_date":"2026-04-03T16:44:17.987007","created_date":"2026-04-03T00:00:00"}