A paper was accepted at Interspeech 2026 (Keio × LY Corporation, M2 Manabe)

Our laboratory's paper titled "ProLAP" was accepted at Interspeech 2026. It is a joint research project with LY Corporation, mainly led by Toranosuke Manabe (M2) from our laboratory.

Interspeech 2026 will be held from Monday, September 28 to Thursday, October 1, 2026,at ICC Sydney, Australia.
Official website: interspeech2026.org

Overview
ProLAP (probabilistic language-audio pre-training) is a method that embeds inputs as probability distributions and introduces a hierarchical inclusion loss, enabling it to capture semantic hierarchical structures while maintaining retrieval performance.

Researcher in charge: Toranosuke Manabe (M2)