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Latent FxLMS: Accelerating Active Noise Control with Neural Adaptive Filters

Published: July 5, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2507.03854v1

By: Kanad Sarkar , Austin Lu , Manan Mittal and more

Potential Business Impact:

Makes noise-canceling headphones work better, faster.

Business Areas:
Natural Language Processing Artificial Intelligence, Data and Analytics, Software

Filtered-X LMS (FxLMS) is commonly used for active noise control (ANC), wherein the soundfield is minimized at a desired location. Given prior knowledge of the spatial region of the noise or control sources, we could improve FxLMS by adapting along the low-dimensional manifold of possible adaptive filter weights. We train an auto-encoder on the filter coefficients of the steady-state adaptive filter for each primary source location sampled from a given spatial region and constrain the weights of the adaptive filter to be the output of the decoder for a given state of latent variables. Then, we perform updates in the latent space and use the decoder to generate the cancellation filter. We evaluate how various neural network constraints and normalization techniques impact the convergence speed and steady-state mean squared error. Under certain conditions, our Latent FxLMS model converges in fewer steps with comparable steady-state error to the standard FxLMS.

Country of Origin
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ United States

Page Count
8 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Machine Learning (CS)