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Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning of Pre-Trained Transformer Models for Speaker Verification Using Adapters
Stafylakis Themos
GU, R.
Plchot Oldřich, Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Mošner Ladislav, Ing. (DCGM)
Burget Lukáš, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Černocký Jan, prof. Dr. Ing. (DCGM)
Speaker verification, pre-trained model, adapter, fine-tuning, transfer learning
Recently, the pre-trained Transformer models have received a rising
interest in the field of speech processing thanks to their great success
in various downstream tasks. However, most fine-tuning approaches
update all the parameters of the pre-trained model, which becomes
prohibitive as the model size grows and sometimes results in over-
fitting on small datasets. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive
analysis of applying parameter-efficient transfer learning (PETL)
methods to reduce the required learnable parameters for adapting
to speaker verification tasks. Specifically, during the fine-tuning
process, the pre-trained models are frozen, and only lightweight
modules inserted in each Transformer block are trainable (a method
known as adapters). Moreover, to boost the performance in a cross-
language low-resource scenario, the Transformer model is further
tuned on a large intermediate dataset before directly fine-tuning it
on a small dataset. With updating fewer than 4% of parameters, (our
proposed) PETL-based methods achieve comparable performances
with full fine-tuning methods (Vox1-O: 0.55%, Vox1-E: 0.82%,
Vox1-H:1.73%).
@inproceedings{BUT185200,
author="PENG, J. and STAFYLAKIS, T. and GU, R. and PLCHOT, O. and MOŠNER, L. and BURGET, L. and ČERNOCKÝ, J.",
title="Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning of Pre-Trained Transformer Models for Speaker Verification Using Adapters",
booktitle="ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings",
year="2023",
pages="1--5",
publisher="IEEE Signal Processing Society",
address="Rhodes Island",
doi="10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10094795",
isbn="978-1-7281-6327-7",
url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10094795"
}