arXiv:2607.05051cs.SD2026-07

让冻结的语音识别模型动态调整计算量,只对难识别语句多算,提升准确率。

Listen, Think, Transcribe: Continuous Latent Test-Time Scaling for ASR

论文配图:Listen, Think, Transcribe: Continuous Latent Test-Time Scaling for ASR
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  • 用可训练的小模块在推理时迭代优化关键隐状态,不修改主模型。
  • 在少量数据下使错误率降低,硬样本上提升显著,多语言通用性强。
  • 能自动判断是否继续计算,节省一半以上算力,适合资源受限场景。

端到端语音识别模型单次通过完成转录,无法回溯困难输入。我们提出LatentASR,一种参数高效的测试时扩展方法,向冻结的ASR主干添加连续隐状态测试时缩放。两个小型可训练模块驱动:隐状态适配器通过有界稳定更新迭代优化少数隐状态位置;值头预测额外计算是否有效并提前终止循环。Qwen3-ASR-0.6B主干完全冻结,仅训练约400万额外参数。使用仅500条多样化的训练语句激活该循环。在此极小数据条件下,标准微调、LoRA和提示调优均导致错误率上升,而LatentASR是唯一在干净基准(FLEURS相对降2.54%,VoxPopuli降0.47%)上降低错误率的方法。性能提升集中于内在困难样本。在带口音与代码混杂语音(ASCEND)上,实现16.0%相对字符错误率下降。跨30个FLEURS语言(23,049条语音),多语言错误率在不同资源层级均匀下降,证明适配器泛化良好且未过拟合。动态终止机制在仅消耗极少计算的情况下保留了大部分清洁集收益,约一半语音在入口处即被跳过。结果表明,只需精心挑选的极小激活集,即可在冻结模型中开启测试时扩展,将固定每句计算转化为按输入需求动态分配,显著提升识别效果。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

End-to-end ASR models transcribe in a single pass, leaving no room for the decoder to revisit hard inputs. We propose LatentASR, a parameter-efficient method that adds continuous latent test-time scaling to a frozen ASR backbone. Two small trainable modules drive it: a Latent Adapter that iteratively refines a few latent prefix positions through bounded, stabilized updates, and a Value Head that predicts whether extra computation will help and halts the loop early. The Qwen3-ASR-0.6B backbone stays fully frozen, and we train only ~4M extra parameters. We activate this loop with a deliberately small, diverse 500-utterance training set. Under this minimal-data regime, standard adaptation methods all regress: full fine-tuning, LoRA, and prompt tuning each increase WER. LatentASR is the only tested method that reduces WER on both clean benchmarks (FLEURS -2.54% and VoxPopuli -0.47% relative). The reductions are concentrated on intrinsically hard inputs. On accented and code-switched speech (ASCEND), LatentASR achieves a 16.0% relative CER reduction. Across 30 FLEURS languages (23,049 utterances), the multilingual WER decreases uniformly across resource tiers, confirming that the adapter generalizes without overfitting. Dynamic halting preserves most of the clean-set reduction at a fraction of the compute, skipping roughly half of all utterances at the entry gate. Our results show that a small, carefully chosen activation set can switch on test-time scaling inside a frozen ASR model without corrupting the model itself, converting fixed per-utterance compute into input-dependent compute where it is most needed.

语音识别测试时扩展参数高效动态计算

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