2022/10/29 by Zhe Li, Li, Zhe, Man‐Wai Mak +3 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Music and Audio Processing #Sound (cs.SD) #Speech Recognition and Synthesis #Speech and Audio Processing #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2210.16622
openalex publication_date 2022/10/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The challenges in applying contrastive learning to speaker verification (SV) are that the softmax-based contrastive loss lacks discriminative power and that the hard negative pairs can easily influence learning. To overcome the first challenge, we propose a contrastive learning SV framework incorporating an additive angular margin into the supervised contrastive loss in which the margin improves the speaker representation's discrimination ability. For the second challenge, we introduce a class-aware attention mechanism through which hard negative samples contribute less significantly to the supervised contrastive loss. We also employed gradient-based multi-objective optimization to balance the classification and contrastive loss. Experimental results on CN-Celeb and Voxceleb1 show that this new learning objective can cause the encoder to find an embedding space that exhibits great speaker discrimination across languages.