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It's a very simple change in a vanilla python implementation. The encoder is a set of attention blocks, and the length of the attention can be changed without changing the calculation at all.

Here(https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/whisper/model.py...) is the relevant code in the whisper repo. You'd just need to change the for loop to an enumerate and subsample the context along its length at the point you want. I believe it would be:

for i, block in enumerate(self.blocks): x = block(x) if i==4: x = x[,,::2]