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PublishedSeptember 24, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Six Layers Less: Encoder Pruning for Whisper with Label-Free Recovery
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arXiv:2609.27980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pruning large pre-trained transformer-based ASR models such as OpenAI's Whisper has seen great adoption, as pruning the decoder led to significant end-to-end transcription speedups. For instance, the {\tt whisper-large-v3-turbo} variant reduced the dec
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