arXiv Machine Learning By Nikita Torgashov, Okan K\"op\"ukl\"u

FASTDIAR: Frame-level speaker encoder for Streaming Diarization

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FASTDIAR is a frame‑level speaker encoder designed for real‑time streaming diarization on a single CPU thread. It converts a state‑of‑the‑art speaker recognition architecture into a causal model that emits an embedding every 80 ms from a two‑second window, and pairs it with online clustering that updates only when the stream’s self‑similarity changes. Trained via distillation from an utterance‑level teacher, it achieves the highest accuracy on low‑overlap benchmarks, degrades less with more speakers, and runs five times faster than real time.

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