AccentCL: Robust Accent Classification with Incremental Expansion

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arXiv:2610.07426v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accent classifiers are typically trained with a fixed label inventory and cannot accommodate new accent categories as new data becomes available. Moreover, accented speech corpora often exhibit substantial class imbalance and/or domain shift due to differences in recording conditions across corpora. We present AccentCL, a class-incremental learning framework for English accent classification that is robust to class imbalance and cross-corpus doma