Hierarchical Interpretable Multitask Audio Representation Learning: An Analysis of Event-Scene Relationships through the Information Bottleneck
arXiv:2610.21520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) and Audio Tagging (AT) models traditionally rely on unconstrained multihead architectures. However, this design ignores the natural hierarchical dependency between sounds and acoustic scenes. In this work, we investigate a hierarchical (sequential) conditioning paradigm that predicts scene categories directly from intermediate event probabilities. Through a large-scale empirical benchmark with 66 full tr…