提出新损失函数Q-Margin,让生物特征验证更精准且高效。
Sparsity-Inducing Divergence Losses for Biometric Verification

- 将边界惩罚融入先验概率,而非直接作用于原始输出
- 在IJB-B/C和VoxCeleb上优于或持平主流方法,低误接受率下优势明显
- 生成极稀疏结果,支持大规模数据的高效训练
人脸识别与语音验证性能主要依赖于如CosFace和ArcFace等带边距的softmax损失。最近提出的α-散度损失因其能诱导稀疏解(当α>1时)而备受关注,但传统几何边距针对softmax设计,难以直接适用于该广义概率框架。本文提出Q-Margin,一种新的α-散度损失,引入合理概率边距。不同于传统方法对logits施加几何惩罚,Q-Margin将边距惩罚直接编码到参考测度(先验概率)中。该形式自然促进判别性嵌入,同时保持α-散度的有益稀疏性。实验表明,Q-Margin在具有挑战性的IJB-B和IJB-C人脸验证基准上表现优异,语音验证在VoxCeleb上同样出色。关键的是,在与ArcFace和CosFace相同训练策略下,Q-Margin在低误接受率(FAR)时持续提升,这对高安全场景至关重要。此外,Q-Margin后验分布极度稀疏,支持精确且内存高效的训练,为包含数百万身份的大规模数据集提供可扩展解决方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Performance in face and speaker verification is largely driven by margin-penalty softmax losses such as CosFace and ArcFace. Recently introduced $α$-divergence loss functions offer a compelling alternative, particularly due to their ability to induce sparse solutions (when $α>1$). However, standard geometric margins are designed for the softmax function and do not naturally extend to this generalized probabilistic framework. In this paper we propose Q-Margin, a novel $α$-divergence loss that introduces a principled probabilistic margin. Unlike conventional methods that apply geometric penalties to the logits (unnormalized log-likelihoods), Q-Margin encodes the margin penalty directly into the reference measure (prior probabilities). This formulation naturally encourages discriminative embeddings while preserving the beneficial sparsity properties of the $α$-divergence. We demonstrate that Q-Margin achieves competitive or superior performance on the challenging IJB-B and IJB-C face verification benchmarks and similarly strong results in speaker verification on VoxCeleb. Crucially, against ArcFace and CosFace baselines trained under an identical recipe, Q-Margin consistently improves at low False Acceptance Rates (FARs), a capability critical for practical high-security applications. Finally, the extreme sparsity of the Q-Margin posteriors enables exact and memory-efficient training, offering a scalable solution for datasets with millions of identities.
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