Does Financial Speech Need Continual Learning Regularization? A Study of EWC and mini-KFAC on Earnings Call ASR

arXiv:2610.13432 · eess.AS, cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-09 · Read on arXiv

eess.AS, cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-09

Updated: 2026-10-09

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables. Presented at the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2026), University of Trento, Trento, Italy, September 25-26, 2026. Proceedings to appear in the ACL Anthology

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Continual Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Continuous Learning for Children's ASR: Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting with Elastic Weight Consolidation and Synaptic Intelligence
• Statistical Testing on ASR Performance via Blockwise Bootstrap
• Kronecker Factorization for Preventing Catastrophic Forgetting in Large-scale Medical Entity Linking
• Continual Learning for End-to-End ASR by Averaging Domain Experts
• Earnings-22: A Practical Benchmark for Accents in the Wild
• Progressive Neural Networks

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