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Entropy-guided interpretability for Whisper-class ASR models.

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A new method uses entropy-guided attention to make transformer ASR models like Whisper more explainable about why they committed to a given transcription (arXiv 2606.14647). Given how widely Whisper is deployed, an interpretability hook for debugging speech pipelines is practically useful. If you've ever stared at a confidently wrong transcript with no way to ask "why," this is the kind of tooling that helps.

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