speechllm-meets-federated-learning-for-end-to-end-asr-english-and-italian-case-studies-5c48d035·1 events·first seen Aliases: SpeechLLM Meets Federated Learning for End-to-End ASR: English and Italian Case Studies
A new arXiv preprint presents the first systematic study of federated training applied to speech language model (SpeechLLM) architectures for end-to-end automatic speech recognition. The authors design a communication-efficient federated optimization strategy addressing gradient overhead and distributed computational constraints, evaluated on English and Italian monolingual ASR tasks. Results show competitive word error rates with reduced communication costs compared to centralized baselines, with ablation studies covering speech encoder architecture choices.