Name
Title | ||
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Knowledge Transfer and Distillation from Autoregressive to Non-Autoregessive Speech Recognition |
Abstract | ||
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Modern non-autoregressive~(NAR) speech recognition systems aim to accelerate the inference speed; however, they suffer from performance degradation compared with autoregressive~(AR) models as well as the huge model size issue. We propose a novel knowledge transfer and distillation architecture that leverages knowledge from AR models to improve the NAR performance while reducing the model's size. Frame- and sequence-level objectives are well-designed for transfer learning. To further boost the performance of NAR, a beam search method on Mask-CTC is developed to enlarge the search space during the inference stage. Experiments show that the proposed NAR beam search relatively reduces CER by over 5% on AISHELL-1 benchmark with a tolerable real-time-factor~(RTF) increment. By knowledge transfer, the NAR student who has the same size as the AR teacher obtains relative CER reductions of 8/16% on AISHELL-1 dev/test sets, and over 25% relative WER reductions on LibriSpeech test-clean/other sets. Moreover, the ~9x smaller NAR models achieve ~25% relative CER/WER reductions on both AISHELL-1 and LibriSpeech benchmarks with the proposed knowledge transfer and distillation. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2022 | 10.21437/INTERSPEECH.2022-632 | Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) |
DocType | Citations | PageRank |
Conference | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xun Gong | 1 | 2 | 2.46 |
| Zhikai Zhou | 2 | 0 | 1.01 |
| Yanmin Qian | 3 | 295 | 44.44 |