Geometric Alignment without Functional Equivalence: A Layer-wise Analysis of the Speech-Text Modality Gap

arXiv:2603.01502 · cs.CL, eess.AS · Submitted 2026-03-02 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, eess.AS

Submitted: 2026-03-02

Updated: 2026-10-14

Terminology

• Alignment — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Modality Gap — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes

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