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Shashi Kumar

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Preprint Aug 2026

Generative vs. Encoder Large Language Models for ASR Evaluation: A Comparative Study

The results show that encoder-based metrics remain highly competitive, while generative LLMs perform strongly in hypothesis comparison and improve the interpretability of ASR evaluation.

Thibault Bañeras-Roux, Shashi Kumar, Driss Khalil et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Jul 2026

When Synthetic Speech Is All You Have: Better Call GRPO

This work shows that Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) extracts far more from the same synthetic speech than SFT, and traces the gain to behavior rather than representation: GRPO reduces insertion errors by improving stopping calibration and speech-to-text alignment by better anchoring attention to audio, leavi...

Shashi Kumar, Yanis Labrak, Hasindri Watawana et al. · 0 citations

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