@ARTICLE{11731498, author={Shi, Hao and Gao, Yuan and Lu, Xugang and Kawahara, Tatsuya}, journal={IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing}, title={Beyond Acoustic Prefixes: Persistent Access to Serialized Acoustic Memory for LLM-Based Multi-Talker Speech Recognition}, year={2026}, volume={}, number={}, pages={1-15}, keywords={Modeling;Large language models;Memory;Decoding;Speech;Training;LoRa;Automatic speech recognition;Head;Noise measurement;Automatic speech recognition;multi-talker speech recognition;large language models;serialized output training;serialized acoustic memory;acoustic access;cross-attention}, doi={10.1109/TASLPRO.2026.3742215}}