On the Role of Encoder Depth: Pruning Whisper and LoRA Fine-Tuning in SLAM-ASR

Ganesh Pavan Kartikeya Bharadwaj Kolluri, Michael Kampouridis, Ravi Shekhar

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has advanced rapidly in recent years, driven by large-scale pretrained models and end-to-end architectures such as SLAM-ASR. A key component of S…