Enhancing the MUSE Speech Enhancement Framework with Mamba-Based Architecture and Extended Loss Functions

We propose MUSE++, an advanced and lightweight speech enhancement (SE) framework that builds upon the original MUSE architecture by introducing three key improvements: a Mamba-based state space model, dynamic SNR-driven data augmentation, and an augmented multi-objective loss function. First, we replace the original multi-path enhanced Taylor (MET) transformer block with the Mamba architecture, enabling substantial reductions in model complexity and parameter count while maintaining robust enhancement capability. Second, we adopt a dynamic training strategy that varies the signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) across diverse speech samples, promoting improved generalization to real-world acoustic scenarios. Third, we expand the model’s loss framework with additional objective measures, allowing the model to be empirically tuned towards both perceptual and objective SE metrics. Comprehensive experiments conducted on the VoiceBank-DEMAND dataset demonstrate that MUSE++ delivers consistently superior performance across standard evaluation metrics, including PESQ, CSIG, CBAK, COVL, SSNR, and STOI, while reducing the number of model parameters by over 65% compared to the baseline. These results highlight MUSE++ as a highly efficient and effective solution for speech enhancement, particularly in resource-constrained and real-time deployment scenarios.