Local Prototype Reconstruction for Text-Compatible Speech-to-LLM Bridge Pretraining

arXiv:2610.11159 · cs.CL, cs.SD · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.SD

Submitted: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Terminology

• Alignment — 40× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Embeddings — 17× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 8× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Local Prototype Reconstruction — 5× in this paper
• Grounding — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Contrastive Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Semantic Alignment — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Regularization — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Tokenization — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Downstream Tasks — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Few-Shot Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Manifold Reconstruction Error — 1× in this paper
• Model-Agnostic — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Optimal Transport — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Reconstruction Error — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Qwen Technical Report
• PaLM 2 Technical Report
• An Embarrassingly Simple Approach for LLM with Strong ASR Capacity
• Qwen-Audio: Advancing Universal Audio Understanding via Unified Large-Scale Audio-Language Models
• LLaSM: Large Language and Speech Model
• SpeechVerse: A Large-scale Generalizable Audio Language Model
• Audio Flamingo: A Novel Audio Language Model with Few-Shot Learning and Dialogue Abilities
• AudioPaLM: A Large Language Model That Can Speak and Listen
• BLSP: Bootstrapping Language-Speech Pre-training via Behavior Alignment of Continuation Writing
• LauraGPT: Listen, Attend, Understand, and Regenerate Audio with GPT
• BLSP-KD: Bootstrapping Language-Speech Pre-training via Knowledge Distillation
• CoVoST 2 and Massively Multilingual Speech-to-Text Translation
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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