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Chang Li, Kanglei Zhou, Liyuan Wang

PACE addresses continual audio learning by selectively adapting pretrained backbones. It uses low-rank adapters, a statistics-based analytic classifier, and projected updates to limit interference across sessions. On EAT-backbone TIMIT-2, PACE achieves 90.95% mean accuracy after each task over accumulated classes, versus RanPAC’s 85.63%; joint training reaches 95.22%. These benchmark results do not establish performance across all audio models or real-world streams.

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