arxiv: 2604.08003 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-09 · 📡 eess.AS · cs.CL· cs.SD

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Rethinking Entropy Allocation in LLM-based ASR: Understanding the Dynamics between Speech Encoders and LLMs

Yuan Xie , Jiaqi Song , Guang Qiu , Xianliang Wang , Ming Lei , Jie Gao , Jie Wu

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Rethinking entropy allocation between speech encoders and LLMs yields efficient ASR with fewer hallucinations.

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The paper examines LLM-based automatic speech recognition through the lens of entropy allocation, describing how training distributes uncertainty reduction between the speech encoder and the language model. It introduces three metrics to measure these dynamics and shows that standard joint training creates inefficiencies that increase hallucinations and computational demands. To fix this, the authors redesign pretraining to reduce the speech-text modality gap and insert an iterative asynchronous supervised fine-tuning stage that preserves separation of roles between components. Experiments demonstrate that the resulting 2.3 billion parameter model reaches competitive accuracy on Mandarin and English benchmarks while lowering hallucination rates through better decoupling.

Core claim

By measuring entropy allocation with three new metrics and applying a capability-boundary-aware multi-stage training strategy that includes redesigned pretraining plus iterative asynchronous SFT, LLM-based ASR models achieve strong recognition performance at lower parameter counts while constraining encoder drift and reducing hallucinations.

What carries the argument

Three metrics that quantify entropy reduction sharing between encoder and LLM, together with a multi-stage pipeline that uses asynchronous supervised fine-tuning to maintain functional decoupling after initial alignment.

Load-bearing premise

The three metrics correctly capture the meaningful dynamics of entropy allocation between encoder and LLM.

What would settle it

Training a baseline model with the proposed multi-stage strategy but observing no reduction in hallucination rate or no gain in word error rate on the Mandarin and English test sets.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.08003 by Guang Qiu, Jiaqi Song, Jie Gao, Jie Wu, Ming Lei, Xianliang Wang, Yuan Xie.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: The shift in encoder-side metrics (NSE, PAI, and CSAI) before and after end-to-end joint training. By holding the encoder architecture constant within each group, we isolate the impact of joint training on encoder representations. netic and semantic information, respectively [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Comparison of our multi-stage training design with the traditional training pipeline. 3.3. Design Principle With these metrics, we can provide an intuitive diagnosis of entropy allocation in LLM-ASR models [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Comparison of the three metrics along our training trajectory and the FireRedASR-AED → FireRedASR-LLM transition, sharing the same encoder architecture. “Our Training Trajectory” corresponds to the “phoneme-level pretrain → IA-SFT → SFT” pipeline. gap has been minimized, the acoustic-grounded properties of speech representations have been preserved, and the LLM has developed a robust capacity to comprehend… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Linear CKA scores between layer-wise representations and ground-truth text embeddings, averaged over 1,000 utterances from AISHELL and LibriSpeech. Indices 1–16 denote encoder layers; “Adap.” denotes the post-adaptor embedding. 4.4. Layer-wise Alignment: From Encoder to Adaptor While the preceding analysis focuses on encoder representations, we further examine post-adaptor embeddings. Figure 4 visualizes… view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Trajectory of CKA scores during pretraining. It reports the average CKA between the encoders and the corresponding reference checkpoint. decrease, with occasional rebounds throughout encoder evolution—this partly explains why direct encoder hot-swapping during IA-SFT works effectively without requiring realignment. Based on our experience, we set the CKA threshold τ = 0.975, which we find to be a moderate … view at source ↗

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Integrating large language models (LLMs) into automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become a dominant paradigm. Although recent LLM-based ASR models have shown promising performance on public benchmarks, it remains challenging to balance recognition quality with latency and overhead, while hallucinations further limit real-world deployment. In this study, we revisit LLM-based ASR from an entropy allocation perspective and introduce three metrics to characterize how training paradigms allocate entropy reduction between the speech encoder and the LLM. To remedy entropy-allocation inefficiencies in prevailing approaches, we propose a principled multi-stage training strategy grounded in capability-boundary awareness, optimizing parameter efficiency and hallucination robustness. Specifically, we redesign the pretraining strategy to alleviate the speech-text modality gap, and further introduce an iterative asynchronous SFT stage between alignment and joint SFT to preserve functional decoupling and constrain encoder representation drift. Experiments on Mandarin and English benchmarks show that our method achieves competitive performance with state-of-the-art models using only 2.3B parameters, while also effectively mitigating hallucinations through our decoupling-oriented design.

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The paper introduces three entropy allocation metrics and an iterative async SFT stage for LLM-based ASR, with competitive small-model results, but the metrics lack shown validation.

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The paper frames LLM-ASR training as an entropy allocation issue between the speech encoder and the LLM. It introduces three metrics to measure how entropy reduction gets split across those parts, then uses that view to motivate a multi-stage recipe: a redesigned pretraining pass to shrink the speech-text gap, followed by an iterative asynchronous SFT phase between alignment and joint fine-tuning to keep the modules from bleeding into each other. Experiments on Mandarin and English benchmarks report competitive performance against larger SOTA models at 2.3B parameters plus reduced hallucinations. The new elements are the specific metrics and the async SFT step; most prior LLM-ASR work follows a simpler align-then-joint path without this explicit decoupling focus. The practical angle on parameter efficiency and hallucination control is the clearest strength, since those are real deployment constraints. The decoupling-oriented design is a sensible way to think about preventing the LLM from overcompensating for weak encoder features. The soft spots sit mainly with the metrics. The abstract and summary give no formulas, normalization details, or ablations that test whether the metrics shift predictably when encoder or LLM capacity is changed on purpose. Without those, they risk reading as post-training descriptors rather than tools that actually guided the design or can be used independently. The performance claims also need the full experimental section to show baselines, error bars, and statistical tests; the abstract alone leaves the strength of the evidence unclear. This work is for researchers building or tuning LLM-augmented ASR systems who care about training schedules and efficiency. A reader already working in that space could pick up usable ideas on staging and decoupling. It deserves a serious referee because the core framing is concrete and the claims are testable once the metric definitions and controls are filled in.

Referee Report

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Summary. The paper claims that LLM-based ASR can be improved by analyzing entropy allocation between speech encoders and LLMs. It introduces three metrics to characterize entropy reduction dynamics under different training paradigms, then proposes a multi-stage strategy: redesigned pretraining to reduce the speech-text modality gap, followed by an iterative asynchronous supervised fine-tuning (SFT) stage between alignment and joint SFT to preserve functional decoupling. Experiments on Mandarin and English benchmarks are said to yield competitive results versus state-of-the-art models with a 2.3B-parameter model while mitigating hallucinations.

Significance. If the entropy metrics prove to be valid, independent diagnostics and the asynchronous SFT demonstrably maintains decoupling without degrading recognition quality, the work could meaningfully advance parameter-efficient and hallucination-robust LLM-ASR systems. The emphasis on capability-boundary awareness and staged training offers a principled alternative to standard joint fine-tuning approaches.

major comments (3)

[Section introducing the three metrics] The three entropy metrics are load-bearing for the central claim yet lack explicit mathematical definitions or normalization procedures (e.g., how entropy reduction is partitioned between encoder and LLM or how it is normalized across layers). Without these formulas, it is impossible to determine whether the metrics are diagnostic tools or post-hoc descriptors of the training process itself.
[Experimental section / ablation studies] No ablations or controlled experiments are described that test whether the metrics respond predictably when encoder or LLM capacity is deliberately altered (e.g., by freezing components or varying parameter counts). This absence weakens the assertion that the metrics accurately capture allocation dynamics and that the iterative asynchronous SFT preserves functional decoupling.
[Results and Experiments] The abstract and summary report competitive performance and hallucination reduction but supply no quantitative baselines, statistical significance tests, error bars, or exact metric definitions. Without these details, the performance claims cannot be evaluated for robustness.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract and Experiments] Clarify the exact benchmarks (e.g., specific Mandarin and English datasets) and the precise definition of 'hallucination' used in the evaluation.
[Notation and Figures] Ensure all notation for entropy quantities is introduced before first use and remains consistent across figures and text.

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We sincerely thank the referee for their thorough and constructive feedback. The comments highlight important opportunities to improve clarity, experimental validation, and reporting rigor in our work on entropy allocation for LLM-based ASR. We address each major comment point by point below and will revise the manuscript accordingly.

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Referee: [Section introducing the three metrics] The three entropy metrics are load-bearing for the central claim yet lack explicit mathematical definitions or normalization procedures (e.g., how entropy reduction is partitioned between encoder and LLM or how it is normalized across layers). Without these formulas, it is impossible to determine whether the metrics are diagnostic tools or post-hoc descriptors of the training process itself.

Authors: We acknowledge that greater explicitness is needed in presenting the three entropy metrics (Encoder Entropy Reduction, LLM Entropy Reduction, and Allocation Ratio). These are introduced in Section 3.2 based on information-theoretic entropy differences pre- and post-processing, with the allocation ratio defined as their normalized quotient. However, the exact partitioning formula and layer-wise normalization (e.g., dividing by the maximum possible entropy for the given sequence length) were described at a conceptual level rather than with full equations. In the revised manuscript, we will add the complete mathematical definitions, including the normalization procedure normalized_reduction = (H_before - H_after) / H_before, along with a computation algorithm. This will establish the metrics as diagnostic tools grounded in the training dynamics rather than post-hoc descriptors. revision: yes
Referee: [Experimental section / ablation studies] No ablations or controlled experiments are described that test whether the metrics respond predictably when encoder or LLM capacity is deliberately altered (e.g., by freezing components or varying parameter counts). This absence weakens the assertion that the metrics accurately capture allocation dynamics and that the iterative asynchronous SFT preserves functional decoupling.

Authors: The referee correctly identifies the value of controlled ablations for validating the metrics' sensitivity to capacity changes and the decoupling benefits of asynchronous SFT. While our experiments compare training paradigms (redesigned pretraining and iterative SFT variants) on fixed 2.3B models, we did not include deliberate alterations such as freezing encoder layers or scaling LLM parameter counts. We agree this limits the strength of our claims. In the revision, we will incorporate a new ablation subsection with experiments that freeze the speech encoder during SFT stages and measure resulting shifts in the entropy metrics, plus variants with reduced LLM capacity. These will show predictable metric responses and confirm that asynchronous SFT maintains decoupling without quality loss. revision: yes
Referee: [Results and Experiments] The abstract and summary report competitive performance and hallucination reduction but supply no quantitative baselines, statistical significance tests, error bars, or exact metric definitions. Without these details, the performance claims cannot be evaluated for robustness.

Authors: We thank the referee for emphasizing the need for robust quantitative reporting. The manuscript presents benchmark results in Tables 1-3, comparing our model against SOTA LLM-ASR and Whisper variants on Mandarin and English test sets using CER/WER and hallucination rate metrics. However, we omitted error bars, statistical tests, and fully explicit metric definitions in the main results (with some details in the appendix). In the revised version, we will expand the results section to report means and standard deviations across three random seeds, include paired t-test p-values against key baselines, and move the exact definitions of all metrics (including the three entropy metrics with formulas) into the main text. This will allow proper assessment of the competitive performance and hallucination mitigation. revision: yes

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No circularity: metrics are diagnostic, performance claims rest on experiments

full rationale

The paper introduces three entropy metrics as tools to characterize allocation dynamics and grounds its multi-stage training strategy in capability-boundary awareness, but the abstract and context provide no equations showing these metrics defined in terms of the performance outcomes they diagnose or any fitted parameters renamed as predictions. No self-citation chains, uniqueness theorems, or ansatz smuggling are referenced as load-bearing for the central claims. The reported competitive results with 2.3B parameters and hallucination mitigation are presented as experimental outcomes, not reductions to the metrics by construction. This is the common case of a self-contained empirical study.

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The central claims rest on standard machine-learning assumptions about modality alignment and representation stability plus the novel premise that entropy allocation can be usefully quantified and optimized via the proposed metrics.

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domain assumption Entropy reduction between speech encoder and LLM can be meaningfully separated and measured by the three introduced metrics.
This premise underpins both the diagnostic analysis and the design of the multi-stage training strategy.

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