A Training-Efficient Transformer-Based Anti-Spoofing Network for Logical Access in ASVspoof 5
For researchers in speaker verification anti-spoofing, TFPARN offers a training-efficient solution that balances accuracy and computational cost, though improvements are incremental over existing methods.
The paper proposes TFPARN, a Transformer-based anti-spoofing network for logical access in ASVspoof 5, achieving a minDCF of 0.2430 and EER of 12.52%, outperforming AASIST and RawNet2 baselines while using lower inference memory (1.4 GB) and faster training.
Synthetic and manipulated speech can reduce the reliability of automatic speaker verification systems, so anti-spoofing methods need to be both accurate and efficient in training and inference. This paper focuses on the ASVspoof 5 Track 1 closed condition, where standard cross-entropy training may not give enough attention to hard trials and is not directly aligned with ranking- and threshold-based evaluation metrics. We propose TFPARN, a Transformer-based focal-pairwise attentive ranking network. The system extracts log-Mel features from speech, uses a Transformer encoder to model frame-level information, applies attention pooling to obtain utterance-level representations, and is trained with a combination of focal classification loss and pairwise ranking loss. RawBoost augmentation is used during training, and test-time augmentation is applied during evaluation to improve robustness. Compared with re-implemented AASIST and RawNet2 baselines under the same protocol, TFPARN achieves the best results, with a minDCF of 0.2430 and an EER of 12.52%. Ablation experiments further show that the pairwise loss, focal loss, and attention pooling all improve performance. TFPARN also uses the lowest inference memory among the compared systems, at 1.4 GB, runs at about 0.79 ms per utterance, and reaches its best checkpoint in less training time than AASIST. These results show that TFPARN provides a good balance between detection accuracy and computational cost for logical access anti-spoofing.