Paper Accepted to Interspeech 2026 (Keio × LY Corporation)

Our paper “ProLAP” has been accepted to Interspeech 2026. The work was led by our M2 student Toranosuke Manabe, in collaboration with LY Corporation.

Interspeech 2026 will be held on September 28 – October 1, 2026 in Sydney, Australia (ICC Sydney).
Website: interspeech2026.org

Overview
ProLAP (probabilistic language-audio pre-training) embeds inputs as probability distributions and introduces a hierarchical inclusion loss, capturing semantic hierarchy while preserving retrieval performance.

Project lead: Toranosuke Manabe (M2)