Loss Masking Is Not Needed in Decoder-only Transformer for Discrete-token-based ASR
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| author | Chen, Qian Wang, Wen Zhang, Qinglin Zheng, Siqi Zhang, Shiliang Deng, Chong Ma, Yukun Yu, Hai Liu, Jiaqing Zhang, Chong |
| author_facet | Chen, Qian Wang, Wen Zhang, Qinglin Zheng, Siqi Zhang, Shiliang Deng, Chong Ma, Yukun Yu, Hai Liu, Jiaqing Zhang, Chong |
| contents | Recently, unified speech-text models, such as SpeechGPT, VioLA, and AudioPaLM, have achieved remarkable performance on various speech tasks. These models discretize speech signals into tokens (speech discretization) and use a shared vocabulary for both text and speech tokens. Then they train a single decoder-only Transformer on a mixture of speech tasks. However, these models rely on the Loss Masking strategy for the ASR task, which ignores the dependency among speech tokens. In this paper, we propose to model speech tokens in an autoregressive way, similar to text. We find that applying the conventional cross-entropy loss on input speech tokens does not consistently improve the ASR performance over the Loss Masking approach. To address this issue, we propose a novel approach denoted Smoothed Label Distillation (SLD), which applies a KL divergence loss with smoothed labels on speech tokens. Our experiments show that SLD effectively models speech tokens and outperforms Loss Masking for decoder-only Transformers in ASR tasks with different speech discretization methods. The source code can be found here: https://github.com/alibaba-damo-academy/SpokenNLP/tree/main/sld |
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| spellingShingle | Loss Masking Is Not Needed in Decoder-only Transformer for Discrete-token-based ASR Chen, Qian Wang, Wen Zhang, Qinglin Zheng, Siqi Zhang, Shiliang Deng, Chong Ma, Yukun Yu, Hai Liu, Jiaqing Zhang, Chong Computation and Language Sound Audio and Speech Processing Recently, unified speech-text models, such as SpeechGPT, VioLA, and AudioPaLM, have achieved remarkable performance on various speech tasks. These models discretize speech signals into tokens (speech discretization) and use a shared vocabulary for both text and speech tokens. Then they train a single decoder-only Transformer on a mixture of speech tasks. However, these models rely on the Loss Masking strategy for the ASR task, which ignores the dependency among speech tokens. In this paper, we propose to model speech tokens in an autoregressive way, similar to text. We find that applying the conventional cross-entropy loss on input speech tokens does not consistently improve the ASR performance over the Loss Masking approach. To address this issue, we propose a novel approach denoted Smoothed Label Distillation (SLD), which applies a KL divergence loss with smoothed labels on speech tokens. Our experiments show that SLD effectively models speech tokens and outperforms Loss Masking for decoder-only Transformers in ASR tasks with different speech discretization methods. The source code can be found here: https://github.com/alibaba-damo-academy/SpokenNLP/tree/main/sld |
| title | Loss Masking Is Not Needed in Decoder-only Transformer for Discrete-token-based ASR |
| topic | Computation and Language Sound Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04534 |