Self-Distillation Prototypes Network: Learning Robust Speaker Representations without Supervision

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Main Authors: Chen, Yafeng, Zheng, Siqi, Wang, Hui, Cheng, Luyao, Chen, Qian, Deng, Chong, Zhang, Shiliang, Wang, Wen
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author Chen, Yafeng
Zheng, Siqi
Wang, Hui
Cheng, Luyao
Chen, Qian
Deng, Chong
Zhang, Shiliang
Wang, Wen
author_facet Chen, Yafeng
Zheng, Siqi
Wang, Hui
Cheng, Luyao
Chen, Qian
Deng, Chong
Zhang, Shiliang
Wang, Wen
contents Training speaker-discriminative and robust speaker verification systems without explicit speaker labels remains a persistent challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel self-supervised speaker verification approach, Self-Distillation Prototypes Network (SDPN), which effectively facilitates self-supervised speaker representation learning. SDPN assigns the representation of the augmented views of an utterance to the same prototypes as the representation of the original view, thereby enabling effective knowledge transfer between the augmented and original views. Due to lack of negative pairs in the SDPN training process, the network tends to align positive pairs quite closely in the embedding space, a phenomenon known as model collapse. To mitigate this problem, we introduce a diversity regularization term to embeddings in SDPN. Comprehensive experiments on the VoxCeleb datasets demonstrate the superiority of SDPN among self-supervised speaker verification approaches. SDPN sets a new state-of-the-art on the VoxCeleb1 speaker verification evaluation benchmark, achieving Equal Error Rate 1.80%, 1.99%, and 3.62% for trial VoxCeleb1-O, VoxCeleb1-E and VoxCeleb1-H, without using any speaker labels in training. Ablation studies show that both proposed learnable prototypes in self-distillation network and diversity regularization contribute to the verification performance.
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spellingShingle Self-Distillation Prototypes Network: Learning Robust Speaker Representations without Supervision
Chen, Yafeng
Zheng, Siqi
Wang, Hui
Cheng, Luyao
Chen, Qian
Deng, Chong
Zhang, Shiliang
Wang, Wen
Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
Training speaker-discriminative and robust speaker verification systems without explicit speaker labels remains a persistent challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel self-supervised speaker verification approach, Self-Distillation Prototypes Network (SDPN), which effectively facilitates self-supervised speaker representation learning. SDPN assigns the representation of the augmented views of an utterance to the same prototypes as the representation of the original view, thereby enabling effective knowledge transfer between the augmented and original views. Due to lack of negative pairs in the SDPN training process, the network tends to align positive pairs quite closely in the embedding space, a phenomenon known as model collapse. To mitigate this problem, we introduce a diversity regularization term to embeddings in SDPN. Comprehensive experiments on the VoxCeleb datasets demonstrate the superiority of SDPN among self-supervised speaker verification approaches. SDPN sets a new state-of-the-art on the VoxCeleb1 speaker verification evaluation benchmark, achieving Equal Error Rate 1.80%, 1.99%, and 3.62% for trial VoxCeleb1-O, VoxCeleb1-E and VoxCeleb1-H, without using any speaker labels in training. Ablation studies show that both proposed learnable prototypes in self-distillation network and diversity regularization contribute to the verification performance.
title Self-Distillation Prototypes Network: Learning Robust Speaker Representations without Supervision
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02774