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GLoRIA: Gated Low-Rank Interpretable Adaptation for Dialectal ASR

Pouya Mehralian, Melissa Farasyn, Anne Breitbarth, Anne-Sophie Ghyselen, Hugo Van hamme · Mar 2, 2026 · Citations: 0

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Abstract

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in dialect-heavy settings remains challenging due to strong regional variation and limited labeled data. We propose GLoRIA, a parameter-efficient adaptation framework that leverages metadata (e.g., coordinates) to modulate low-rank updates in a pre-trained encoder. GLoRIA injects low-rank matrices into each feed-forward layer, with a gating MLP determining the non-negative contribution of each LoRA rank-1 component based on location metadata. On the GCND corpus, GLoRIA outperforms geo-conditioned full fine-tuning, LoRA, and both dialect-specific and unified full fine-tuning, achieving state-of-the-art word error rates while updating under 10% of parameters. GLoRIA also generalizes well to unseen dialects, including in extrapolation scenarios, and enables interpretable adaptation patterns that can be visualized geospatially. These results show metadata-gated low-rank adaptation is an effective, interpretable, and efficient solution for dialectal ASR.

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Evidence snippet: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in dialect-heavy settings remains challenging due to strong regional variation and limited labeled data.

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  • We propose GLoRIA, a parameter-efficient adaptation framework that leverages metadata (e.g., coordinates) to modulate low-rank updates in a pre-trained encoder.
  • On the GCND corpus, GLoRIA outperforms geo-conditioned full fine-tuning, LoRA, and both dialect-specific and unified full fine-tuning, achieving state-of-the-art word error rates…
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  • We propose GLoRIA, a parameter-efficient adaptation framework that leverages metadata (e.g., coordinates) to modulate low-rank updates in a pre-trained encoder.
  • On the GCND corpus, GLoRIA outperforms geo-conditioned full fine-tuning, LoRA, and both dialect-specific and unified full fine-tuning, achieving state-of-the-art word error rates while updating under 10% of parameters.

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