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[Submitted on 13 Oct 2026] Title:CAFE: Confining Feature Distillation to Language-Routed Adapters for Compact Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition View a PDF of the paper titled CAFE: Confining Feature Distillation to Language-Routed Adapters for Compact Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition, by Tianchi Liu and 7 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Feature distillation is usually expected to add to logit distillation. We find that this expectation does not hold for two common feature losses in compact multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR), and analyze why through their gradients. The gradient of a projection-based loss is orthogonal to the task gradient, while that of Centered Kernel Alignment (CKA), a similarity-based loss, is weakly aligned with it. CKA lowers the word error rate (WER) on non-English languages, but at the expense of data-rich English. Three loss-level remedies (one trained, two probed) all fall short, and the CKA gradient overlaps with the subspace English uses in the shared encoder by 97.5% to 99.5% (about 81% by chance). Guided by this diagnosis, we propose CAFE (Confined-Adapter Feature distillation), which confines the CKA gradient to adapters that English bypasses, addressing the trade-off in the parameters rather than in the loss. On the Open ASR Leaderboard, CAFE lowers the average WER from 8.55% to 8.02%, beats an adapter-only capacity control at 8.51%, and makes English more stable across checkpoints. At 254M parameters, it trails the 0.6B teacher by 2 WER points and is competitive with much larger models across 48 test sets in 24 languages. We use 564k hours of training data and state-of-the-art models to keep the findings relevant to practice. Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2610.19134 [cs.CL] (or arXiv:2610.19134v1 [cs.CL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.19134 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Amril Nurman Nazir [view email] [v1] Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:04:19 UTC (615 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled CAFE: Confining Feature Distillation to Language-Routed Adapters for Compact Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition, by Tianchi Liu and 7 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Additional Features Audio Summary Current browse context: cs.CL new | recent | 2026-10 Change to browse by: cs cs.AI References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)