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most citedWhisperNER: Unified Open Named Entity and Speech Recognition

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cs.AI2026

Hidden in the Request: Explaining Unethical LLM Compliance through Token Relevance

Or Biton, Tomer Krichli, Itai Allouche +1

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) are aligned to optimize for both helpfulness and harmlessness, these dual objectives may conflict, inevitably leading to alignment failures. T…

eess.AS2026

Fully Differentiable Neural Forced Alignment via Soft Dynamic Programming

Rotem Rousso, Eyal Cohen, Joseph Keshet

Recent advances in sequence modeling have significantly improved ASR systems, bringing them close to human-level recognition accuracy and enhancing robustness across diverse acoust…

cs.AI2026

Why Sampling Is Not Choosing: Intentionality, Agency, and Moral Responsibility in Large Language Models

Joseph Keshet

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have prompted claims that such systems exhibit agency or qualify as moral agents. This paper argues that these attributions are misg…

cs.CL2026

Multilingual Word-Level Forced Alignment with Self-Supervised Representations and Learned Dynamic Programming

Roy Weber, Meidan Zehavi, Rotem Rousso +1

We present a method for accurate multilingual word-level forced alignment, consisting of an alignment encoder and a learned alignment decoder. The encoder integrates two representa…

cs.LG2026

Mitigating Multimodal LLMs Hallucinations via Relevance Propagation at Inference Time

Itai Allouche, Joseph Keshet

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance on vision- and audio-language tasks, yet can generate responses that conflict with the given visual or auditory…

cs.LG2026

Joint Enhancement and Classification using Coupled Diffusion Models of Signals and Logits

Gilad Nurko, Roi Benita, Yehoshua Dissen +4

Robust classification in noisy environments remains a fundamental challenge in machine learning. Standard approaches typically treat signal enhancement and classification as separa…

cs.LG2026

Analyzing and Guiding Zero-Shot Posterior Sampling in Diffusion Models

Roi Benita, Michael Elad, Joseph Keshet

Recovering a signal from its degraded measurements is a long standing challenge in science and engineering. Recently, zero-shot diffusion based methods have been proposed for such…

eess.AS2025

Drax: Speech Recognition with Discrete Flow Matching

Aviv Navon, Aviv Shamsian, Neta Glazer +4

Diffusion and flow-based non-autoregressive (NAR) models have shown strong promise in large language modeling, however, their potential for automatic speech recognition (ASR) remai…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

Beyond Transcription: Mechanistic Interpretability in ASR

Neta Glazer, Yael Segal-Feldman, Hilit Segev +6

Interpretability methods have recently gained significant attention, particularly in the context of large language models, enabling insights into linguistic representations, error…

cs.CL2025

WhisperRT -- Turning Whisper into a Causal Streaming Model

Tomer Krichli, Bhiksha Raj, Joseph Keshet

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has seen remarkable progress, with models like OpenAI Whisper and NVIDIA Canary achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in offline transcri…

cs.SD2025

UmbraTTS: Adapting Text-to-Speech to Environmental Contexts with Flow Matching

Neta Glazer, Aviv Navon, Yael Segal +6

Recent advances in Text-to-Speech (TTS) have enabled highly natural speech synthesis, yet integrating speech with complex background environments remains challenging. We introduce…

eess.AS2025

FlowTSE: Target Speaker Extraction with Flow Matching

Aviv Navon, Aviv Shamsian, Yael Segal-Feldman +3

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a specific speaker's speech from a mixture using speaker enrollment as a reference. While most existing approaches are discriminativ…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Spectral Analysis of Diffusion Models with Application to Schedule Design

Roi Benita, Michael Elad, Joseph Keshet

Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as powerful tools for modeling complex data distributions and generating realistic new samples. Over the years, advanced architectures and sampl…

eess.AS2024

Whisper in Medusa's Ear: Multi-head Efficient Decoding for Transformer-based ASR

Yael Segal-Feldman, Aviv Shamsian, Aviv Navon +2

Large transformer-based models have significant potential for speech transcription and translation. Their self-attention mechanisms and parallel processing enable them to capture c…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

WhisperNER: Unified Open Named Entity and Speech Recognition

Gil Ayache, Menachem Pirchi, Aviv Navon +3

Integrating named entity recognition (NER) with automatic speech recognition (ASR) can significantly enhance transcription accuracy and informativeness. In this paper, we introduce…

eess.AS2024★ 1 cited

Tradition or Innovation: A Comparison of Modern ASR Methods for Forced Alignment

Rotem Rousso, Eyal Cohen, Joseph Keshet +1

Forced alignment (FA) plays a key role in speech research through the automatic time alignment of speech signals with corresponding text transcriptions. Despite the move towards en…

cs.SD2024

Enhanced ASR Robustness to Packet Loss with a Front-End Adaptation Network

Yehoshua Dissen, Shiry Yonash, Israel Cohen +1

In the realm of automatic speech recognition (ASR), robustness in noisy environments remains a significant challenge. Recent ASR models, such as Whisper, have shown promise, but th…

eess.AS2024

Keyword-Guided Adaptation of Automatic Speech Recognition

Aviv Shamsian, Aviv Navon, Neta Glazer +2

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology has made significant progress in recent years, providing accurate transcription across various domains. However, some challenges remai…

cs.CL2023

Combining Language Models For Specialized Domains: A Colorful Approach

Daniel Eitan, Menachem Pirchi, Neta Glazer +7

General purpose language models (LMs) encounter difficulties when processing domain-specific jargon and terminology, which are frequently utilized in specialized fields such as med…

cs.SD2023★ 1 cited

DiffAR: Denoising Diffusion Autoregressive Model for Raw Speech Waveform Generation

Roi Benita, Michael Elad, Joseph Keshet

Diffusion models have recently been shown to be relevant for high-quality speech generation. Most work has been focused on generating spectrograms, and as such, they further requir…