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Label-free Knowledge Distillation with Contrastive Loss for Light-weight Speaker Recognition
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Very deep models for speaker recognition (SR) have demonstrated remarkable performance improvement in recent research. However, it is impractical to deploy these models for on-device applications with constrained computational resources. On the other hand, light-weight models are highly desired in practice despite their sub-optimal performance. This research aims to improve light-weight SR models through large-scale label-free knowledge distillation (KD). Existing KD approaches for SR typically require speaker labels to learn task-specific knowledge, due to the inefficiency of conventional loss for distillation. To address the inefficiency problem and achieve label-free KD, we propose to employ the contrastive loss from self-supervised learning for distillation. Extensive experiments are conducted on a collection of public speech datasets from diverse sources. Results on light-weight SR models show that the proposed approach of label-free KD with contrastive loss consistently outperforms both conventional distillation methods and self-supervised learning methods by a significant margin.
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2212.03090
- Document Type :
- Working Paper