add Chinese distill-whisper fine-tuning results #1648
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In #1605, we fine-tuned whisper using 14k hours Chinese data. This PR added decoding results for distill-whisper fine-tuning experiment.
Instead of actually using distillation loss for training, the model structure and parameter initialization method from the distill-whisper paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00430) were adopted: only the first and last layers of the decoder were retained.
Accuracy:
Distill-whisper is slightly worse comparing with norm whisper.
Speed:
Every decoding step could acclerate about 4x comparing with the original decoder.
Norm whisper: 32 decoder layers
Distill-whisper: 2 decoder layers
For a quick test: https://huggingface.co/yuekai/icefall_asr_multi-hans-zh_whisper/blob/main/test_model.py