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MGSC: A Multi-granularity Consistency Framework for Robust End-to-end Asr

Computation and Language 2025-08-25 v1 Artificial Intelligence Sound Audio and Speech Processing

Abstract

End-to-end ASR models, despite their success on benchmarks, often pro-duce catastrophic semantic errors in noisy environments. We attribute this fragility to the prevailing 'direct mapping' objective, which solely penalizes final output errors while leaving the model's internal computational pro-cess unconstrained. To address this, we introduce the Multi-Granularity Soft Consistency (MGSC) framework, a model-agnostic, plug-and-play module that enforces internal self-consistency by simultaneously regulariz-ing macro-level sentence semantics and micro-level token alignment. Cru-cially, our work is the first to uncover a powerful synergy between these two consistency granularities: their joint optimization yields robustness gains that significantly surpass the sum of their individual contributions. On a public dataset, MGSC reduces the average Character Error Rate by a relative 8.7% across diverse noise conditions, primarily by preventing se-vere meaning-altering mistakes. Our work demonstrates that enforcing in-ternal consistency is a crucial step towards building more robust and trust-worthy AI.

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@article{arxiv.2508.15853,
  title  = {MGSC: A Multi-granularity Consistency Framework for Robust End-to-end Asr},
  author = {Xuwen Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.15853},
  year   = {2025}
}

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12 pages, 5figures

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