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[Submitted on 23 Sep 2026] Title:Temporal Taxation Compounds Under Post-Training Compression of Whisper Models View a PDF of the paper titled Temporal Taxation Compounds Under Post-Training Compression of Whisper Models, by Srishti Ginjala and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Automatic speech recognition models are audited for demographic fairness at full precision, yet the models that ship to production have been quantized, pruned, and distilled. We ask whether post-training weight compression, which alters model weights rather than the audio signal or its feature representation, redistributes error burden across demographic groups. Across the Whisper family on Fair-Speech, Common Voice 25, and AfriSpeech-200, 50% Wanda pruning of Whisper-large-v3 sharply widens the Black/AA-vs-Asian temporal-taxation differential on Fair-Speech: the absolute word-error-rate gap between the worst- and best-served groups more than doubles; at an assumed cost of five seconds of correction effort per transcription error this is a rise from 30 to 64 seconds of correction time per minute of speech. This +111% relative increase is invariant to the assumed per-error cost, survives an audio-quality control, and is only partly mitigated by beam-search decoding, which still leaves an +86% increase. At edge model size, INT4 HQQ quantization compounds catastrophic transcript loops on West African accents by factors of five to seven. Distillation, by contrast, narrows demographic gaps in 21 of 27 evaluated settings (teacher-student pair, precision, and dataset), with the exceptions concentrated on a single model pair. We cast the temporal-taxation construct of Choi and Choi (2025) as a quantitative metric, and show that single-snapshot fairness audits on full-precision models do not capture the deployment-time burden that compression places on already-marginalized speakers. Comments: Accepted to IMPACT-SPEECH @ EMNLP 2026 Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Sound (cs.SD) Cite as: arXiv:2609.28739 [cs.CL] (or arXiv:2609.28739v1 [cs.CL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.28739 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Srishti Ginjala [view email] [v1] Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:31:05 UTC (132 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Temporal Taxation Compounds Under Post-Training Compression of Whisper Models, by Srishti Ginjala and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.CL new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs cs.SD 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?)