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Self-Supervised Frameworks for Speaker Verification via Bootstrapped Positive Sampling
Theo Lepage, Reda Dehak
Recent developments in Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) have demonstrated significant potential for Speaker Verification (SV), but closing the performance gap with supervised systems remains an ongoing challenge. Standard SSL frameworks rely on anchor-positive pairs extracted from the same audio utterances. Hence, positives have channel characteristics similar to those of their corresponding anchors, even with extensive data-augmentation. Therefore, this positive sampling strategy is a fundamental limitation as it encodes too much information regarding the recording source in the learned representations. This article introduces Self-Supervised Positive Sampling (SSPS), a bootstrapped technique for sampling appropriate and diverse positives in SSL frameworks for SV. SSPS samples positives close to their anchor in the representation space, under the assumption that these pseudo-positives belong to the same speaker identity but correspond to different recording conditions. This method demonstrates consistent improvements in SV performance on VoxCeleb benchmarks when implemented in major SSL frameworks, such as SimCLR, SwAV, VICReg, and DINO. Using SSPS, SimCLR, and DINO achieve 2.57% and 2.53% EER on VoxCeleb1-O. SimCLR yields a 58% relative reduction in EER, getting comparable performance to DINO with a simpler training framework. Furthermore, SSPS lowers intra-class variance and reduces channel information in speaker representations while exhibiting greater robustness without data-augmentation.
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