@inproceedings{gupta-etal-2024-parameter,
title = "Parameter-efficient Adaptation of Multilingual Multimodal Models for Low-resource {ASR}",
author = "Gupta, Abhishek and
Parulekar, Amruta and
Chattopadhyay, Sameep and
Jyothi, Preethi",
editor = {S{\"a}lev{\"a}, Jonne and
Owodunni, Abraham},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2024)",
month = nov,
year = "2024",
address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.mrl-1.13",
pages = "175--185",
abstract = "Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for low-resource languages remains a challenge due to the scarcity of labeled training data. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning and text-only adaptation are two popular methods that have been used to address such low-resource settings. In this work, we investigate how these techniques can be effectively combined using a multilingual multimodal model like SeamlessM4T. Multimodal models are able to leverage unlabeled text via text-only adaptation with further parameter-efficient ASR fine-tuning, thus boosting ASR performance. We also show cross-lingual transfer from a high-resource language, achieving up to a relative 17{\%} WER reduction over baseline in an extremely low-resource setting without any labeled speech.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Parameter-efficient Adaptation of Multilingual Multimodal Models for Low-resource ASR
%A Gupta, Abhishek
%A Parulekar, Amruta
%A Chattopadhyay, Sameep
%A Jyothi, Preethi
%Y Sälevä, Jonne
%Y Owodunni, Abraham
%S Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2024)
%D 2024
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Miami, Florida, USA
%F gupta-etal-2024-parameter
%X Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for low-resource languages remains a challenge due to the scarcity of labeled training data. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning and text-only adaptation are two popular methods that have been used to address such low-resource settings. In this work, we investigate how these techniques can be effectively combined using a multilingual multimodal model like SeamlessM4T. Multimodal models are able to leverage unlabeled text via text-only adaptation with further parameter-efficient ASR fine-tuning, thus boosting ASR performance. We also show cross-lingual transfer from a high-resource language, achieving up to a relative 17% WER reduction over baseline in an extremely low-resource setting without any labeled speech.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.mrl-1.13
%P 175-185
Markdown (Informal)
[Parameter-efficient Adaptation of Multilingual Multimodal Models for Low-resource ASR](https://aclanthology.org/2024.mrl-1.13) (Gupta et al., MRL 2024)
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