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4arXiv · cs.CL·13d ago·source ↗

AlignAtt4LLM adapts simultaneous speech translation policy to decoder-only LLMs for IWSLT 2026

Researchers present AlignAtt4LLM, a simultaneous speech translation system for IWSLT 2026 covering English to German, Italian, and Chinese. The system cascades Qwen3-ASR for incremental transcription with Gemma-4 E4B-it for translation, applying a novel AlignAtt policy adapted for decoder-only LLMs that lack encoder-decoder cross-attention. Key contributions include explicit source span prompting, offline alignment head selection, and query/key capture to recover a usable attention-based read/write policy. The system outperforms IWSLT 2026 baselines for European language pairs in both low- and high-latency regimes.

3arXiv · cs.CL·13d ago·source ↗

CUNI submits 1B-parameter simultaneous speech translation system to IWSLT 2026

Researchers from CUNI submit a simultaneous speech translation system to the IWSLT 2026 shared task, built on the offline Canary model with the AlignAtt policy. The system covers Czech-English and English-German/Italian translation pairs, supports 25 source and 25 target languages, and outperforms similarly sized baselines in both low- and high-latency regimes. At 1B parameters, it is positioned as a compact, multilingual, computationally efficient solution.