GNSS & Machine Learning Engineer
LongNet, a new Transformer variant introduced in recent research by Microsoft, has successfully scaled sequence lengths to over 1 billion tokens without compromising shorter sequence performance. Its key innovation, dilated attention, allows an exponential expansion of the attentive field with growing distance. The model exhibits linear computational complexity and logarithmic token dependency, while also demonstrating strong performance on long-sequence modeling and general language tasks.
Microsoft has introduced a new language modeling approach for text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) called VALL-E. The approach uses discrete codes derived from an off-the-shelf neural audio codec model, and is trained using 60K hours of English speech, which is hundreds of times larger than existing systems, and can be used to synthesize high-quality personalized speech with only a 3-second enrolled recording of an unseen speaker as an acoustic prompt (project page, paper).
An unofficial Pytorch implementation for VALL-E is available on GitHub.
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