13th November 2026

Slides 📝 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQPnXUokWyx3qmMQHUQ2w-SE7rL58gbKEHIPNN7IclQ/edit?usp=sharing 

Quiz 💭 

Quiz on BirdCODE paper reading 

https://forms.gle/ETgBz8CRtgbicLc47 

1. How does the task addressed by the BirdCODE model differ from the task addressed by previous bioacoustic foundation models? What innovations allowed the authors to tackle this task?

2. The authors use a simplistic approach for producing the final model outputs from the frame-level predictions. Propose an alternative strategy that you think could improve performance. 

Homework 🔎 

Paper to read for Wednesday 18th November : Global birdsong embedding enable superior transfer learning for bioacoustic classification (Quiz in class) 

Credits:

Top image: This image was created with the assistance of DALL·E 3.