Rethinking Entropy Allocation in LLM-based ASR: Understanding the Dynamics between Speech Encoders and LLMs

arXiv:2604.08003 · eess.AS, cs.CL, cs.SD · Submitted 2026-04-09 · Read on arXiv

eess.AS, cs.CL, cs.SD

Submitted: 2026-04-09

Updated: 2026-10-09

Terminology

• Hallucination — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Modality Gap — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Parameter Efficiency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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