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Recently, end-to-end automatic speech recognition has become the mainstream approach in both industry and academia. To optimize system performance in specific scenarios, the Weighted Finite-State Transducer (WFST) is extensively used to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Wei Zhang , Tian-Hao Zhang , Chao Luo , Hui Zhou , Chao Yang , Xinyuan Qian , Xu-Cheng Yin

Connectionist temporal classification (CTC) is a popular sequence prediction approach for automatic speech recognition that is typically used with models based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs). We explore whether deep convolutional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Kalpesh Krishna , Liang Lu , Kevin Gimpel , Karen Livescu

Purpose: Cone-beam CT (CBCT) plays an important role in image guided radiation therapy (IGRT). However, the large radiation dose from serial CBCT scans in most IGRT procedures raises a clinical concern, especially for pediatric patients who…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Xun Jia , Yifei Lou , Ruijiang Li , William Y. Song , Steve B. Jiang

We describe initial work on an extension of the Kaldi toolkit that supports weighted finite-state transducer (WFST) decoding on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). We implement token recombination as an atomic GPU operation in order to fully…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Zhehuai Chen , Justin Luitjens , Hainan Xu , Yiming Wang , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Transformer-based neural models are used in many AI applications. Training these models is expensive, as it takes huge GPU resources and long duration. It is challenging because typical data like sentences have variable lengths, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Xiaohui Wang , Yang Wei , Ying Xiong , Guyue Huang , Xian Qian , Yufei Ding , Mingxuan Wang , Lei Li

We present "torchGDM", a numerical framework for nano-optical simulations based on the Green's Dyadic Method (GDM). This toolkit combines a hybrid approach, allowing for both fully discretized nano-structures and structures approximated by…

GPU decoding significantly accelerates the output of ASR predictions. While GPUs are already being used for online ASR decoding, post-processing and rescoring on GPUs have not been properly investigated yet. Rescoring with available…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Iuliia Nigmatulina , Srikanth Madikeri , Esaú Villatoro-Tello , Petr Motliček , Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , Karthik Pandia , Aravind Ganapathiraju

In real-world applications of large language models, outputs are often required to be confined: selecting items from predefined product or document sets, generating phrases that comply with safety standards, or conforming to specialized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Haotian Ye , Himanshu Jain , Chong You , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Haowei Lin , James Zou , Felix Yu

This paper presents an open-source neural machine translation toolkit named CytonMT (https://github.com/arthurxlw/cytonMt). The toolkit is built from scratch only using C++ and NVIDIA's GPU-accelerated libraries. The toolkit features…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Xiaolin Wang , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita

Text analytics directly on compression (TADOC) has proven to be a promising technology for big data analytics. GPUs are extremely popular accelerators for data analytics systems. Unfortunately, no work so far shows how to utilize GPUs to…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Feng Zhang , Zaifeng Pan , Yanliang Zhou , Jidong Zhai , Xipeng Shen , Onur Mutlu , Xiaoyong Du

Speculative decoding accelerates memory-bound LLM inference without quality degradation by using a fast drafter to propose multiple candidate tokens and the target model to verify them in parallel. However, conventional sequential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yaojie Zhang , Jianuo Huang , Junlong Ke , Yuhang Han , Yongji Long , Tianchen Zhao , Biqing Qi , Linfeng Zhang

This paper presents FunCodec, a fundamental neural speech codec toolkit, which is an extension of the open-source speech processing toolkit FunASR. FunCodec provides reproducible training recipes and inference scripts for the latest neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Kai Hu , Siqi Zheng

As a language model that integrates traditional symbolic operations and flexible neural representations, recurrent neural network grammars (RNNGs) have attracted great attention from both scientific and engineering perspectives. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Hiroshi Noji , Yohei Oseki

fairseq is an open-source sequence modeling toolkit that allows researchers and developers to train custom models for translation, summarization, language modeling, and other text generation tasks. The toolkit is based on PyTorch and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Myle Ott , Sergey Edunov , Alexei Baevski , Angela Fan , Sam Gross , Nathan Ng , David Grangier , Michael Auli

This study presents a reconstruction of the Gaussian Beam Tracing solution using CUDA, with a particular focus on the utilisation of GPU acceleration as a means of overcoming the performance limitations of traditional CPU algorithms in…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Zhang Sheng , Lishu Duan , Hanbo Jiang

The vast majority of inference time for RNN Transducer (RNN-T) models today is spent on decoding. Current state-of-the-art RNN-T decoding implementations leave the GPU idle ~80% of the time. Leveraging a new CUDA 12.4 feature, CUDA graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Daniel Galvez , Vladimir Bataev , Hainan Xu , Tim Kaldewey

In this work, we propose FastCoT, a model-agnostic framework based on parallel decoding without any further training of an auxiliary model or modification to the LLM itself. FastCoT uses a size-varying context window whose size changes with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Hongxuan Zhang , Zhining Liu , Yao Zhao , Jiaqi Zheng , Chenyi Zhuang , Jinjie Gu , Guihai Chen

In this paper, we propose a simple but effective method to decode the output of Connectionist Temporal Classifier (CTC) model using a bi-directional neural language model. The bidirectional language model uses the future as well as the past…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Namkyu Jung , Geonmin Kim , Han-Gyu Kim

X-ray imaging dose from serial cone-beam CT (CBCT) scans raises a clinical concern in most image guided radiation therapy procedures. It is the goal of this paper to develop a fast GPU-based algorithm to reconstruct high quality CBCT images…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Xun Jia , Bin Dong , Yifei Lou , Steve B. Jiang

The identification, and subsequent discovery, of fast radio transients through blind-search surveys requires a large amount of processing power, in worst cases scaling as $\mathcal{O}(N^3)$. For this reason, survey data are generally…

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