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Enhancing Multi-Corpus Training in SSL-Based Anti-Spoofing Models: Domain-Invariant Feature Extraction

arXiv cs.LG / 3/20/2026

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Key Points

  • The study examines multi-corpus training for SSL-based anti-spoofing models and shows that dataset-specific biases can harm generalization across corpora.
  • To address this, it proposes the Invariant Domain Feature Extraction (IDFE) framework, which uses multi-task learning and a gradient reversal layer to minimize corpus-specific information in learned embeddings.
  • IDFE reduces the average equal error rate by 20% relative to the baseline across four diverse datasets, demonstrating improved robustness to cross-corpus variation.
  • The findings highlight the value of domain-invariant representations for spoofing detection, potentially improving cross-corpus performance in real-world deployments.

Abstract

The performance of speech spoofing detection often varies across different training and evaluation corpora. Leveraging multiple corpora typically enhances robustness and performance in fields like speaker recognition and speech recognition. However, our spoofing detection experiments show that multi-corpus training does not consistently improve performance and may even degrade it. We hypothesize that dataset-specific biases impair generalization, leading to performance instability. To address this, we propose an Invariant Domain Feature Extraction (IDFE) framework, employing multi-task learning and a gradient reversal layer to minimize corpus-specific information in learned embeddings. The IDFE framework reduces the average equal error rate by 20% compared to the baseline, assessed across four varied datasets.