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Segmental Attention Decoding with Long Form Acoustic Encodings

New research proposes methods to improve attention-based models for long audio inputs. The study identifies a fundamental incompatibility with long-form acoustic encodings, causing models to lose ordering capabilities due to permutation invariance. Four modifications, including explicit absolute positional encodings, are introduced to address this limitation.

Apple ML Research·Jul 6, 2026

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