arXiv:2511.14219cs.AIcs.SD2025-11中稿 · AAAI被引 3

用自适应注意力和知识蒸馏让Whisper更听清噪声中的语音,减少胡说八道。

Listen Like a Teacher: Mitigating Whisper Hallucinations using Adaptive Layer Attention and Knowledge Distillation

  • 通过分组编码层并自适应融合特征,增强模型对噪声的鲁棒性。
  • 在噪声数据上训练学生模型,使语义和注意力分布逼近干净输入的教师模型。
  • 不牺牲清晰语音表现,适合实际部署的语音识别系统优化。

Whisper是一款开源自动语音识别系统,在多语言及零样本场景下表现强劲,但在嘈杂声学环境下常出现幻觉错误。现有方法多聚焦于音频预处理或转录后处理,而对Whisper模型本身的改进仍不充分。为此,本文提出两阶段架构:第一阶段采用自适应层注意力(ALA),通过层间相关性分析将编码器层分组,再用可学习的多头注意力融合块表示,联合利用低层与高层特征以提升编码鲁棒性;第二阶段采用多目标知识蒸馏(KD)框架,让学生模型在噪声音频上训练,使其语义与注意力分布对齐于处理清晰输入的教师模型。实验显示,在噪声语音基准测试中,该方法显著降低幻觉和词错率,同时保持对清晰语音的性能。ALA与KD共同提供了一种在真实噪声条件下提升Whisper可靠性的系统性策略。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The Whisper model, an open-source automatic speech recognition system, is widely adopted for its strong performance across multilingual and zero-shot settings. However, it frequently suffers from hallucination errors, especially under noisy acoustic conditions. Previous works to reduce hallucinations in Whisper-style ASR systems have primarily focused on audio preprocessing or post-processing of transcriptions to filter out erroneous content. However, modifications to the Whisper model itself remain largely unexplored to mitigate hallucinations directly. To address this challenge, we present a two-stage architecture that first enhances encoder robustness through Adaptive Layer Attention (ALA) and further suppresses hallucinations using a multi-objective knowledge distillation (KD) framework. In the first stage, ALA groups encoder layers into semantically coherent blocks via inter-layer correlation analysis. A learnable multi-head attention module then fuses these block representations, enabling the model to jointly exploit low- and high-level features for more robust encoding. In the second stage, our KD framework trains the student model on noisy audio to align its semantic and attention distributions with a teacher model processing clean inputs. Our experiments on noisy speech benchmarks show notable reductions in hallucinations and word error rates, while preserving performance on clean speech. Together, ALA and KD offer a principled strategy to improve Whisper's reliability under real-world noisy conditions.

语音识别降噪知识蒸馏Whisper

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