2025
UME: Upcycling Mixture-of-Experts for Scalable and Efficient Automatic Speech Recognition
ICASSP 2025accepted
Recent advancements in scaling up models have significantly improved performance in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) tasks. However, training large ASR models from scratch remains costly. To address this issue, we introduce UME, a novel method that efficiently Upcycles pretrained dense ASR checkpo…