A Regularized Discriminative Training Method of Acoustic Models Derived by Minimum Relative Entropy Discrimination

摘要

We present a realization method of the principle of minimum relative entropy discrimination (MRED) in order to derive a regularized discriminative training method. MRED is advantageous since it provides a Bayesian interpretations of the conventional discriminative training methods and regularization techniques. In order to realize MRED for speech recognition, we proposed an approximation method of MRED that strictly preserves the constraints used in MRED. Further, in order to practically perform MRED, an optimization method based on convex optimization and its solver based on the cutting plane algorithm are also proposed. The proposed methods were evaluated on continuous phoneme recognition tasks. We confirmed that the MRED-based training system outperformed conventional discriminative training methods in the experiments.