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Optimized discriminative kernel for SVM scoring and its application to speaker verification.

Shi-Xiong Zhang1, Man-Wai Mak

  • 1Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. sxz20@cam.ac.uk

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This study reveals likelihood ratio (LR) scores are linked to supervector (SV) similarity. A new general kernel derived from this connection improves speaker verification performance.

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Area of Science:

  • Machine Learning
  • Speech Processing
  • Pattern Recognition

Background:

  • Binary classification systems often use likelihood ratio (LR) scores.
  • LR scores can be represented using supervectors (SVs) from Gaussian mixture models.
  • Support Vector Machine (SVM) kernels can be viewed as similarity functions between SVs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate that LR scoring is a special case of SVM scoring.
  • To derive a new general kernel by relaxing assumptions on similarity functions.
  • To enhance speaker verification performance using the proposed kernel.

Main Methods:

  • Expressing LR scores via similarity between target, test, and background model supervectors.
  • Interpreting SVM kernels as discriminant functions for SVs.
  • Deriving a general kernel as a linear combination of existing kernels from the reproducing kernel Hilbert space.
  • Optimizing combination weights using regression analysis or SVM training.

Main Results:

  • LR scoring is shown to be a specific instance of SVM scoring.
  • Most existing sequence kernels are derived from specific similarity function assumptions.
  • The proposed general kernel achieves superior performance in both high-level and low-level speaker verification compared to state-of-the-art kernels.
  • Combining high-level scores with acoustic scores further boosts performance.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed general kernel offers a flexible and powerful approach for sequence data analysis.
  • This method provides significant performance improvements in speaker verification tasks.
  • The framework unifies LR scoring and SVMs, offering new insights into kernel methods.