[Submitted on 26 Sep 2026]
Title:When Forgetting Looks Like Improvement: Metric Masking in Streaming Diarizer Adaptation and the Price of Rehearsal
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Abstract:Small-data adaptation can improve speech detection while degrading speaker attribution. We study this discrepancy in a released streaming diarizer adapted on 7.5 h of two-party conversation and evaluated across six corpora. Adaptation substantially improves in-domain diarization performance and transfers to an independent corpus. However, this improvement is not consistent across evaluation scenarios as the additional confusion is mainly associated with impaired temporal identity consistency rather than speaker-count errors. A local-remapping diagnostic reveals different patterns of identity degradation across corpora, indicating that adaptation may alter how streaming models maintain speaker assignments over time. Rehearsal reduces the observed degradation but reduces the cross-domain transfer performance. These results highlight the need to jointly evaluate detection accuracy, identity consistency, and retention behavior when adapting streaming diarization systems.
Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures
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Computation and Language (cs.CL); Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
Cite as: arXiv:2610.08828 [cs.CL]
(or arXiv:2610.08828v1 [cs.CL] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.08828
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From: Mo Yu [view email] [v1] Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:07:01 UTC (458 KB)
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