Benchmarking Rotary Position Embeddings for Automatic Speech Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06051v1
• Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 15:30:46 GMT
• Title: Benchmarking Rotary Position Embeddings for Automatic Speech Recognition
• Authors: Shucong Zhang, Titouan Parcollet, Rogier van Dalen, Sourav Bhattacharya,
• Abstract summary: Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) encodes relative and absolute positional information in Transformer-based models. RoPE consistently achieves lower error rates compared to the currently widely used relative positional embedding. To facilitate further research, we release the implementation and all experimental recipes through the SpeechBrain toolkit.
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• Abstract: Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) encodes relative and absolute positional information in Transformer-based models through rotation matrices applied to input vectors within sequences. While RoPE has demonstrated superior performance compared to other positional embedding technologies in natural language processing tasks, its effectiveness in speech processing applications remains understudied. In this work, we conduct a comprehensive evaluation of RoPE across diverse automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks. Our experimental results demonstrate that for ASR tasks, RoPE consistently achieves lower error rates compared to the currently widely used relative positional embedding. To facilitate further research, we release the implementation and all experimental recipes through the SpeechBrain toolkit.

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