Neural adversarial learning for speaker recognition

Abstract

This paper presents the adversarial learning approaches to deal with various tasks in speaker recognition based on probabilistic discriminant analysis (PLDA) which is seen as a latent variable model for reconstruction of i-vectors. The first task aims to reduce the dimension of i-vectors based on an adversarial manifold learning where the adversarial neural networks of generator and discriminator are merged to preserve neighbor embedding of i-vectors in a low-dimensional space. The generator is trained to fool the discriminator with the generated samples in latent space. A PLDA subspace model is constructed by jointly minimizing a PLDA reconstruction error, a manifold loss for neighbor embedding and an adversarial loss caused by the generator and discriminator. The second task of adversarial learning is developed to tackle the imbalanced data problem. A PLDA based generative adversarial network is trained to generate new i-vectors to balance the size of training utterances across different speakers. An adversarial augmentation learning is proposed for robust speaker recognition. In particular, the minimax optimization is performed to estimate a generator and a discriminator where the class conditional i-vectors produced by generator could not be distinguished from real i-vectors via discriminator. A multiobjective learning is realized for a specialized neural model with the cosine similarity between real and fake i-vectors as well as the regularization for Gaussianity. Experiments are conducted to show the merit of adversarial learning in subspace construction and data augmentation for PLDA-based speaker recognition. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.