Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

Radford et al., 2023, Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision (Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023), PMLR 202)

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4.3 Multitask and Multilingual Transfer

  1. Does training on many tasks and languages hurt English speech recognition?
    For small models, yes: joint models underperformed English-only models trained with the same compute (negative transfer). But joint models scaled better, and the largest ones outperformed English-only training, showing positive transfer.

Source

  • Alec Radford, Jong Wook Kim, Tao Xu, Greg Brockman, Christine McLeavey and Ilya Sutskever. 2023. Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision. In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023), PMLR 202, pp. 28492–28518. https://proceedings.mlr.press/v202/radford23a.html