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In this work, we argue that not all sequence-to-sequence tasks require the strong inductive biases of autoregressive (AR) models. Tasks like multilingual transliteration, code refactoring, grammatical correction or text normalization often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Lakshya Tomar , Vinayak Abrol , Puneet Agarwal

We present a state-of-the-art end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model. We learn to listen and write characters with a joint Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) and attention-based encoder-decoder network. The encoder is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe , Yu Zhang , William Chan

Fast inference speed is an important goal towards real-world deployment of speech translation (ST) systems. End-to-end (E2E) models based on the encoder-decoder architecture are more suitable for this goal than traditional cascaded systems,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Hirofumi Inaguma , Yosuke Higuchi , Kevin Duh , Tatsuya Kawahara , Shinji Watanabe

Fully non-autoregressive neural machine translation (NAT) is proposed to simultaneously predict tokens with single forward of neural networks, which significantly reduces the inference latency at the expense of quality drop compared to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jiatao Gu , Xiang Kong

Transformer-based autoregressive (AR) methods have achieved appealing performance for varied sequence-to-sequence generation tasks, e.g., neural machine translation, summarization, and code generation, but suffer from low inference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Yisheng Xiao , Ruiyang Xu , Lijun Wu , Juntao Li , Tao Qin , Yan-Tie Liu , Min Zhang

With the advancement of deep learning techniques, the performance of Automatic Program Repair(APR) techniques has reached a new level. Previous deep learning-based APR techniques essentially modified program sentences in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhenyu Yang , Zhen Yang , Zhongxing Yu

Continuous integrate-and-fire (CIF) based models, which use a soft and monotonic alignment mechanism, have been well applied in non-autoregressive (NAR) speech recognition with competitive performance compared with other NAR methods.…

Non-autoregressive (NAR) generative models are valuable because they can handle diverse conditional generation tasks in a more principled way than their autoregressive (AR) counterparts, which are constrained by sequential dependency…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Anji Liu , Xuejie Liu , Dayuan Zhao , Mathias Niepert , Yitao Liang , Guy Van den Broeck

Connectionist temporal classification (CTC) -based models are attractive because of their fast inference in automatic speech recognition (ASR). Language model (LM) integration approaches such as shallow fusion and rescoring can improve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hayato Futami , Hirofumi Inaguma , Masato Mimura , Shinsuke Sakai , Tatsuya Kawahara

Error correction techniques have been used to refine the output sentences from automatic speech recognition (ASR) models and achieve a lower word error rate (WER) than original ASR outputs. Previous works usually use a sequence-to-sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Yichong Leng , Xu Tan , Linchen Zhu , Jin Xu , Renqian Luo , Linquan Liu , Tao Qin , Xiang-Yang Li , Ed Lin , Tie-Yan Liu

Autoregressive (AR) models remain widely used in time series analysis due to their interpretability, but convencional parameter estimation methods can be computationally expensive and prone to convergence issues. This paper proposes a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-20 Anaísa Lucena , Ana Martins , Armando J. Pinho , Sónia Gouveia

Recently, attention-based encoder-decoder (AED) end-to-end (E2E) models have drawn more and more attention in the field of automatic speech recognition (ASR). AED models, however, still have drawbacks when deploying in commercial…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Zhichao Wang , Wenwen Yang , Pan Zhou , Wei Chen

This review paper provides a comprehensive analysis of recent advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) with bidirectional encoder representations from transformers BERT and connectionist temporal classification (CTC) transformers. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Noussaiba Djeffal , Hamza Kheddar , Djamel Addou , Ahmed Cherif Mazari , Yassine Himeur

Non-autoregressive approaches aim to improve the inference speed of translation models by only requiring a single forward pass to generate the output sequence instead of iteratively producing each predicted token. Consequently, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Robin M. Schmidt , Telmo Pires , Stephan Peitz , Jonas Lööf

Deep learning approaches have been widely used in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and they have achieved a significant accuracy improvement. Especially, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been revisited in ASR recently. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Yisen Wang , Xuejiao Deng , Songbai Pu , Zhiheng Huang

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have revolutionized the field by integrating all components into a single neural network, with attention-based encoder-decoder models achieving state-of-the-art performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Duygu Altinok

Non-autoregressive neural machine translation (NAT) generates each target word in parallel and has achieved promising inference acceleration. However, existing NAT models still have a big gap in translation quality compared to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Qiu Ran , Yankai Lin , Peng Li , Jie Zhou

Autoregressive (AR) and Non-autoregressive (NAR) models have their own superiority on the performance and latency, combining them into one model may take advantage of both. Current combination frameworks focus more on the integration of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Minghan Wang , Jiaxin Guo , Yuxia Wang , Daimeng Wei , Hengchao Shang , Chang Su , Yimeng Chen , Yinglu Li , Min Zhang , Shimin Tao , Hao Yang

Non-autoregressive Transformers (NATs) reduce the inference latency of Autoregressive Transformers (ATs) by predicting words all at once rather than in sequential order. They have achieved remarkable progress in machine translation as well…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Chenxin An , Jiangtao Feng , Fei Huang , Xipeng Qiu , Lingpeng Kong

Attention-based encoder-decoder models with autoregressive (AR) decoding have proven to be the dominant approach for automatic speech recognition (ASR) due to their superior accuracy. However, they often suffer from slow inference. This is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Masao Someki , Nicholas Eng , Yosuke Higuchi , Shinji Watanabe