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PublishedMay 6, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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BaldWhisper: Faster Whisper with Head Shearing and Layer Merging
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arXiv:2510.08599v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pruning large pre-trained transformers in a data-scarce scenario is challenging, as it often requires massive retraining data to recover performance. For instance, Distill-Whisper prunes Whisper by 40 and retrains on 21,000 hours of speech, f
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