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Will Ukraine receive unprecedented guarantees? Trump reveals details of conversation with Putin: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/will-ukraine-receive-unprecedented-guarantees.html

NOW! Ukraine to receive F-16, Gripen, Rafale fighters — Putin isolated, US set to respond: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/now-ukraine-to-receive-f.html

🔥 F-16, Gripen, Rafale – Ukraine to receive 250 new fighter jets #short: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/f-gripen-rafale-ukraine-to.html

Ukraine on track to receive total of 3 million FPV drones in 2025, defense minister says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/ukraine-on-track-to-receive.html

Ukraine to receive $5 billion in U.S. weapons via PURL funding by the end of 2025: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/12/ukraine-to-receive-billion-in.html

20TH PACKAGE OF SANCTIONS! Will Ukraine receive Russia's FROZEN ASSETS?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/09/th-package-of-sanctions-will.html

BaldWhisper: Faster Whisper with Head Shearing and Layer Merging
Yaya Sy, Christophe Cerisara, Irina Illina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08599 https://arxiv.…

BaldWhisper: Faster Whisper with Head Shearing and Layer Merging
Pruning large pre-trained transformers for low-resource languages is challenging, as it often requires massive retraining data to recover performance. For instance, Distill-Whisper prunes Whisper by 40% and retrains on 21,000 hours of speech, far beyond what is available for most languages. Can Whisper be made lighter and faster for edge devices in data-scarce settings? Focusing on Bambara with only 32h of speech-to-text data, we propose a new pruning recipe. Instead of vocabulary pruning, whic…