Distilling Conversations: Abstract Compression of Conversational Audio Context for LLM-based ASR

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References: 14
Source count: 3
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Source paper: Distilling Conversations: Abstract Compression of Conversational Audio Context for LLM-based ASR

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.26246v1

Source count: 3

Coverage: 50%

Last proof check: 2026-03-30T21:58:40.545Z

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Evidencepartial
We find that, after supervised multi-turn training, conversational context mainly helps with the recognition of contextual entities.
Implicationpartial
The abstract explicitly states this finding and it is supported by the analysis of Bias-WER.
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we propose Abstract Compression, which replaces the audio portion of prior turns with a fixed number of learned latent tokens while retaining corresponding transcripts explicitly.
Implicationpartial
This is a direct definition of the proposed method in the abstract.
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Evidencepartial
On both in-domain and out-of-domain test sets, the compressed model recovers part of the gains of raw-context conditioning with a smaller prior-turn audio footprint.
Implicationpartial
The abstract directly states this outcome and it is supported by the comparison of WER and Bias-WER in the results section.
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Evidencepartial
However, conditioning on raw context is expensive because the prior-turn audio token sequence grows rapidly with conversation length.
Implicationpartial
The abstract clearly states this limitation and the analysis section elaborates on the cost implications.
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Evidencepartial
During this stage, the base model is frozen, and only the compression module, including the turn-specific queriesQi and the cross-attention parameters, is optimized.
Implicationpartial
The description of the training stage for Abstract Compression is detailed and specific.
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Evidencepartial
On the more entity-dense WoW set, the gains are larger: WER from 25.6% to 23.3%.
Implicationpartial
Specific numerical results are provided for the WoW dataset, indicating a clear performance improvement.
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Evidencepartial
We do not compress prior-turn text in this work. Unlike audio, compressed text did not admit a comparably effective alignment stage in our preliminary experiments, and retaining transcripts
Implicationpartial
The paper explains the rationale behind not compressing text, based on prior experimental findings.
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