Papers with U-shaped adaptability pattern
Adapting Where It Matters: Depth-Aware Adaptation for Efficient Multilingual Speech Recognition in Low-Resource Languages (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Recent speech foundation models excel at multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) for high-resource languages, but their performance drops substantially on low-resourced languages due to the limited data availability. |
| Approach: | They propose a Depth-Aware Model Adaptation framework that allocates adaptation capacity according to each layer’s role. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework matches or surpasses state-of-the-art accuracy with 80% fewer trainable parameters and achieves 29% error reduction under extreme data scarcity. |