Co-Initialization of Control Filter and Secondary Path via Meta-Learning for Active Noise Control

Abstract: Active noise control (ANC) must adapt quickly when the acoustic environment changes, yet early performance is largely dictated by initialization. We address this with a Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) co-initialization that jointly sets the control filter and the secondary-path model for FxLMS-based ANC while keeping the runtime algorithm unchanged. The initializer is pre-trained on a small set of measured paths using short two-phase inner loops that mimic identification followed by residual-noise reduction, and is applied by simply setting the learned initial coefficients. In an online secondary path modeling FxLMS testbed, it yields lower early-stage error, shorter time-to-target, reduced auxiliary-noise energy, and faster recovery after path changes than a baseline without re-initialization. The method provides a simple fast start for feedforward ANC under environment changes, requiring a small set of paths to pre-train.