Representations from models such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) and Hidden units BERT (HuBERT) have helped to achieve state-of-the-art performance in dimensional speech emotion recognition. Both HuBERT, and BERT models generate fairly large dimensional representations, and such models were not trained with emotion recognition task in mind. Such large dimensional representations result in speech emotion models with large parameter size, resulting in both memory and computational cost complexities. In this work, we investigate the selection of representations…Apple Machine Learning Research