4 papers
A Study on Regularization-Based Continual Learning Methods for Indic ASR
Gokul Adethya T, S. Jaya Nirmala
Indias linguistic diversity poses significant challenges for developing inclusive Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. Traditional multilingual models, which require simulta…
Star Attention: Efficient LLM Inference over Long Sequences
Shantanu Acharya, Fei Jia, Boris Ginsburg
Inference with Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) on long sequences is both costly and slow due to the quadratic complexity of the self-attention mechanism. We introduc…
SWAN-GPT: An Efficient and Scalable Approach for Long-Context Language Modeling
Krishna C. Puvvada, Faisal Ladhak, Santiago Akle Serrano +8
We present a decoder-only Transformer architecture that robustly generalizes to sequence lengths substantially longer than those seen during training. Our model, SWAN-GPT, interlea…
Romanization Encoding For Multilingual ASR
Wen Ding, Fei Jia, Hainan Xu +3
We introduce romanization encoding for script-heavy languages to optimize multilingual and code-switching Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. By adopting romanization encod…