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BaLEEN: Biasing with Latent Encoded Entities for Context-Aware ASR

Chihiro Taguchi, Yotaro Kubo, Rujikorn Charakorn

Published

Sep 29, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

0/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

35% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

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Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

This paper looks adjacent to evaluation work, but not like a strong protocol reference.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
0/100
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Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

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Abstract

Transcribing domain-specific entities and rare proper nouns remains a major challenge in automatic speech recognition (ASR). In this paper, we propose BaLEEN (Biasing with Latent Encoded Entities), a lightweight, hypernetwork-based framework for dynamic contextual adaptation without fine-tuning the underlying ASR model. BaLEEN encodes variable-length contextual keywords using a pretrained language model, compresses them into a fixed sequence of latent vectors via a Perceiver bottleneck, and injects context-dependent bias vectors directly into the intermediate encoder representations of the ASR model. Because both the language model and the backbone ASR model remain entirely frozen during training, BaLEEN operates as a plug-and-play adapter that incurs zero computational overhead at inference time when context biases are precomputed. We evaluate our method on a CTC-based ASR model using a Wikipedia-derived corpus with annotated named entities and synthetic speech. Experimental results demonstrate that BaLEEN reduces keyword miss rate by 8.7% on the test set relative to the unbiased baseline while simultaneously improving overall word error rate by 21% and character error rate by 28%.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Transcribing domain-specific entities and rare proper nouns remains a major challenge in automatic speech recognition (ASR)."

Evaluation Modes

partial

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Transcribing domain-specific entities and rare proper nouns remains a major challenge in automatic speech recognition (ASR)."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Transcribing domain-specific entities and rare proper nouns remains a major challenge in automatic speech recognition (ASR)."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Transcribing domain-specific entities and rare proper nouns remains a major challenge in automatic speech recognition (ASR)."

Reported Metrics

partial

Error rate, Wer, Cer, Jailbreak success rate

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"Experimental results demonstrate that BaLEEN reduces keyword miss rate by 8.7% on the test set relative to the unbiased baseline while simultaneously improving overall word error rate by 21% and character error rate by 28%."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

error ratewercerjailbreak success rate
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
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Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Transcribing domain-specific entities and rare proper nouns remains a major challenge in automatic speech recognition (ASR).

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Transcribing domain-specific entities and rare proper nouns remains a major challenge in automatic speech recognition (ASR).
  • In this paper, we propose BaLEEN (Biasing with Latent Encoded Entities), a lightweight, hypernetwork-based framework for dynamic contextual adaptation without fine-tuning the underlying ASR model.
  • BaLEEN encodes variable-length contextual keywords using a pretrained language model, compresses them into a fixed sequence of latent vectors via a Perceiver bottleneck, and injects context-dependent bias vectors directly into the intermediate encoder representations of the ASR model.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

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Contribution summary

  • In this paper, we propose BaLEEN (Biasing with Latent Encoded Entities), a lightweight, hypernetwork-based framework for dynamic contextual adaptation without fine-tuning the underlying ASR model.
  • We evaluate our method on a CTC-based ASR model using a Wikipedia-derived corpus with annotated named entities and synthetic speech.
  • Experimental results demonstrate that BaLEEN reduces keyword miss rate by 8.7% on the test set relative to the unbiased baseline while simultaneously improving overall word error rate by 21% and character error rate by 28%.

Why it matters for eval

  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: error rate, wer, cer, jailbreak success rate