Improve model card: Add abstract and sample usage for LiteASR

README.md

@@ -10,9 +10,51 @@ tags:
 - hf-asr-leaderboard
 ---
 
-<!-- Provide a quick summary of what the model is/does. -->
+# LiteASR: Efficient Automatic Speech Recognition with Low-Rank Approximation
 
-Lite-Whisper is a compressed version of OpenAI Whisper with LiteASR. See our [GitHub repository](https://github.com/efeslab/LiteASR) and [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20583) for details.
+This repository hosts `lite-whisper-small-fast`, a compressed version of OpenAI Whisper, utilizing the LiteASR compression scheme. See our [GitHub repository](https://github.com/efeslab/LiteASR) and [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20583) for details.
+
+## Abstract
+
+Modern automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, such as OpenAI's Whisper, rely on deep encoder-decoder architectures, and their encoders are a critical bottleneck for efficient deployment due to high computational intensity. We introduce LiteASR, a low-rank compression scheme for ASR encoders that significantly reduces inference costs while maintaining transcription accuracy. Our approach leverages the strong low-rank properties observed in intermediate activations: by applying principal component analysis (PCA) with a small calibration dataset, we approximate linear transformations with a chain of low-rank matrix multiplications, and further optimize self-attention to work in reduced dimensionality. Evaluation results show that our method can compress Whisper large-v3's encoder size by over 50%, matching Whisper medium's size with better transcription accuracy, thereby establishing a new Pareto frontier of accuracy and efficiency.
+
+## Quick Start
+
+The easiest way to run this model is to use its integration with the Hugging Face Transformers library.
+
+```python
+import librosa
+import torch
+from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModel
+
+device = "cuda:0"
+dtype = torch.float16
+
+# load the compressed Whisper model
+model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
+    "efficient-speech/lite-whisper-small-fast", # This model's ID
+    trust_remote_code=True,
+)
+model.to(dtype).to(device)
+
+# we use the same processor as the original base model
+processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("openai/whisper-small") # Base model from metadata
+
+# set the path to your audio file
+path = "path/to/audio.wav"
+audio, _ = librosa.load(path, sr=16000)
+
+input_features = processor(audio, sampling_rate=16000, return_tensors="pt").input_features
+input_features = input_features.to(dtype).to(device)
+
+predicted_ids = model.generate(input_features)
+transcription = processor.batch_decode(
+    predicted_ids,
+    skip_special_tokens=True
+)[0]
+
+print(transcription)
+```
 
 ## Benchmark Results
 
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 | [lite-whisper-medium](https://huggingface.co/efficient-speech/lite-whisper-medium) | 14.50 | 239.99M | 456.64M |
 | [lite-whisper-medium-fast](https://huggingface.co/efficient-speech/lite-whisper-medium-fast) | 14.52 | 215.31M | 456.64M |
 
-
 ## Citation
 
 If you use LiteASR in your research, please cite the following paper:
 
 ```
 @misc{kamahori2025liteasrefficientautomaticspeech,
-      title={LiteASR: Efficient Automatic Speech Recognition with Low-Rank Approximation}, 
+      title={LiteASR: Efficient Automatic Speech Recognition with Low-Rank Approximation},
       author={Keisuke Kamahori and Jungo Kasai and Noriyuki Kojima and Baris Kasikci},
       year={2025},
       eprint={2502.20583},
       archivePrefix={arXiv},
       primaryClass={cs.LG},
-      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20583}, 
+      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20583},
 }
 ```