@article{thecascadeequivalencehypothesiswhendospe, title = {The Cascade Equivalence Hypothesis: When Do Speech LLMs Behave Like ASR$\rightarrow$LLM Pipelines?}, author = {Jayadev Billa}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2602.17598}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17598}, }