Results

This release includes JSON and Markdown outputs under results/. The most important caveat is that the clean benchmark gains are single-run directional point estimates, not statistically established improvements.

Clean Main Benchmarks

Model	FLEURS WER	VoxPopuli WER
Frozen Qwen3-ASR baseline	4.900	9.038
LatentASR, N=4, theta=0	4.776	8.995

Relative WER deltas:

FLEURS: -2.54%
VoxPopuli: -0.47%

Robustness Diagnostics

At SNR 0 dB:

Dataset	Baseline WER	LatentASR WER	Relative delta
FLEURS	29.81	29.42	-1.32%
VoxPopuli	19.71	19.51	-1.02%

Stress broad suite weighted aggregate:

Baseline WER: 36.843
LatentASR WER: 36.265
Delta: -0.578 pp (-1.57% relative)

ASCEND Diagnostic

ASCEND CER:

Baseline: 57.81
LatentASR: 48.55
Relative CER delta: -16.02%

This is explicitly treated as an overlap-confounded in-domain diagnostic. ASCEND contributes 5/500 activation utterances and speaker-disjointness was not enforced.

Included Result Folders

results/paper500_main_eval_20260518/
results/paper500_english_clean_noise_20260518/
results/paper500_multilingual_streaming_20260518/
results/paper500_threshold_20260518/
results/paper500_more_testing_stress_20260525/
results/paper500_ascend_20260518/