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PublishedSeptember 1, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Stride-k Subsampling: Train-Free Audio Token Reduction for Whisper
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arXiv:2608.30927v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whisper exposes speech through a fixed 1500-token encoder interface, now a default representation for ASR decoders and Whisper-based speech language models (SpeechLMs), yet its redundancy remains largely unexamined. We propose stride-k subsampling, a
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