AMR: Adaptive Modality Routing for Multimodal Polyglot Speaker Identification
For researchers in multimodal speaker identification, this work provides a robust solution to real-world challenges like missing modalities and language mismatch, though it is incremental as it combines existing encoders with a novel routing module.
The paper proposes a multimodal speaker identification system using Adaptive Modality Routing (AMR) to handle missing modalities and language mismatch, achieving 99.07% average accuracy across four protocols, surpassing the baseline by 32.73%.
Multimodal speaker identification systems face two key challenges in real-world deployment: missing modalities and language mismatch between training and testing conditions. In practical scenarios, background multi-speaker conversations, ambient noise, and overlapping speech further degrade identification accuracy. To address these challenges, we propose a multimodal polyglot speaker identification system for the POLY-SIM 2026 Grand Challenge. The system is fundamentally built upon Adaptive Modality Routing(AMR), a modality fusion module that dynamically assesses per-sample input quality and integrates modality information. Specifically, AMR employs two modality adapters to process the embeddings extracted from a linguistically robust audio encoder(W2V-BERT 2.0) and a large-scale pretrained face encoder(IResNet-18), producing modality-adapted embeddings. Based on these adapted embeddings, a trainable router estimates dynamic modality weights, which are subsequently applied to aggregate the modality-specific logits for the final prediction. To optimize this routing mechanism, we adopt a modality-aware training strategy that constructs four types of sample pairs to simulate diverse input conditions, with KL divergence serving as explicit supervision for weight assignment. Experimental results on the POLY-SIM 2026 evaluation set show that the proposed system achieves identification accuracy of 99.93%(English multimodal, P3), 100.00%(Urdu multimodal, P5), 97.50%(English audio-only, P4), and 98.83%(Urdu audio-only, P6). The average accuracy across all four protocols is 99.07%, surpassing the Fusion and Orthogonal Projection(FOP) baseline by 32.73%.