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Latent Speech-Text Transformer
arXiv β CS AI|Yen-Ju Lu, Yashesh Gaur, Wei Zhou, Benjamin Muller, Jesus Villalba, Najim Dehak, Luke Zettlemoyer, Gargi Ghosh, Mike Lewis, Srinivasan Iyer, Duc Le|
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Facebook Research introduces the Latent Speech-Text Transformer (LST), which aggregates speech tokens into higher-level patches to improve computational efficiency and cross-modal alignment. The model achieves up to +6.5% absolute gain on speech HellaSwag benchmarks while maintaining text performance and reducing inference costs for ASR and TTS tasks.
Key Takeaways
- βLST addresses the computational inefficiency of auto-regressive speech-text models by aggregating speech tokens into latent patches.
- βThe model achieves up to +6.5% absolute gain on speech HellaSwag benchmarks in compute-controlled training settings.
- βPerformance gains scale with model size from 420M to 1.8B parameters and persist up to 7B parameters.
- βLST reduces effective autoregressive sequence length during ASR and TTS inference without degrading reconstruction quality.
- βThe approach improves cross-modal knowledge transfer between speech and text modalities while maintaining text performance.
#speech-processing#multimodal-ai#transformer#facebook-research#computational-efficiency#cross-modal#asr#tts#language-models
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