Enhancing Multilingual LLM-based ASR with Mixture of Experts and Dynamic Downsampling
About
The rapid progress of large language models (LLMs) has opened up a new frontier for automatic speech recognition (ASR), making their effective integration a critical and challenging research direction. To this end, this work proposes a projector-based LLM-ASR framework targeting the key challenges of multilingual generalization and modality alignment. Our approach incorporates a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture to improve cross-lingual adaptability, and a Continuous Integrate-and-Fire (CIF) mechanism for dynamic downsampling and modality alignment. Experimental results show that the combination of these components yields substantial performance improvements, surpassing strong baseline models. The proposed method represents a step toward building more accurate, robust, and generalizable LLM-based ASR systems.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic Speech Recognition | FLEURS (test) | Average Error Rate8.65 | 30 | |
| Automatic Speech Recognition | MLC-SLM (dev) | WER/CER15.27 | 21 | |
| Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition | CommonVoice (test) | WER9.86 | 6 |