arXiv:2601.14751eess.AS2026-01中稿 · presentation at IC…被引 1

用曲率信息防止语音模型学新忘旧,轻量高效。

Inverse-Hessian Regularization for Continual Learning in ASR

  • 在模型合并时引入逆海森矩阵近似,指导参数更新方向。
  • 在两个基准上显著降低遗忘率,性能优于当前最优方法。
  • 适合需要持续学习的语音识别系统,尤其关注稳定性场景。

灾难性遗忘仍是自动语音识别(ASR)持续学习(CL)中的主要挑战,即模型需在不丢失先前知识的前提下适应新领域。尽管近期提出的权重平均法(在微调后合并模型)已被证明是一种有效的无记忆策略,但其本质为启发式方法,忽略了任务间的损失曲面结构,限制了模型的适应能力。本文提出逆海森正则化(IHR),一种无记忆的ASR持续学习方法,通过在合并步骤中融入曲率信息,利用克罗内克积分解的逆海森近似,确保模型在更新时主要沿对历史任务影响较小的方向移动,同时保持轻量化。我们在两个持续学习基准上评估IHR,结果表明其显著优于现有最优基线,在减少遗忘的同时提升适应能力。消融实验与分析进一步验证了其有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Catastrophic forgetting remains a major challenge for continual learning (CL) in automatic speech recognition (ASR), where models must adapt to new domains without losing performance on previously learned conditions. Several CL methods have been proposed for ASR, and, recently, weight averaging - where models are averaged in a merging step after fine-tuning - has proven effective as a simple memory-free strategy. However, it is heuristic in nature and ignores the underlying loss landscapes of the tasks, hindering adaptability. In this work, we propose Inverse Hessian Regularization (IHR), a memory-free approach for CL in ASR that incorporates curvature information into the merging step. After fine-tuning on a new task, the adaptation is adjusted through a Kronecker-factored inverse Hessian approximation of the previous task, ensuring that the model moves primarily in directions less harmful to past performance, while keeping the method lightweight. We evaluate IHR on two CL benchmarks and show that it significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, reducing forgetting while improving adaptability. Ablation studies and analyses further confirm its effectiveness.

持续学习语音识别正则化

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