alignatt4llm-9e5b7fb9·1 events·first seen Aliases: AlignAtt4LLM
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.