arXiv AI

Fast Speech Foundation Model Distillation Using Interleaved Stacking

arXiv:2606. 11766v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distilling a large speech foundation model (SFM) into an efficient student model has been successfully applied to low-resource environments.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Effective Distillation to Hybrid xLSTM Architectures

arXiv:2603. 15590v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: There have been numerous attempts to distill quadratic attention-based large language models (LLMs) into sub-quadratic linearized architectures.

By Lukas Hauzenberger, Niklas Schmidinger, Thomas Schmied, Anamaria-Roberta Hartl, David Stap, Pieter-Jan Hoedt, Maximilian Beck, Sebastian B\"ock, G\"unter Klambauer, Sepp Hochreiter
arXiv AI
Jun 15

X-OPD: Cross-Modal On-Policy Distillation for Capability Alignment in Speech LLMs

arXiv:2603. 24596v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While the shift from cascaded dialogue systems to end-to-end (E2E) speech Large Language Models (LLMs) improves latency and paralinguistic modeling, E2E models often exhibit a significant performance degradation compared to their text-based counterparts.

By Di Cao, Dongjie Fu, Hai Yu, Siqi Zheng, Xu Tan, Tao Jin