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Variational Bayes Factor Analysis for i-Vector Extraction

Machine Learning 2015-11-25 v1

Abstract

In this document we are going to derive the equations needed to implement a Variational Bayes i-vector extractor. This can be used to extract longer i-vectors reducing the risk of overfittig or to adapt an i-vector extractor from a database to another with scarce development data. This work is based on Patrick Kenny's joint factor analysis and Christopher Bishop's variational principal components.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1511.07422,
  title  = {Variational Bayes Factor Analysis for i-Vector Extraction},
  author = {Jesús Villalba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.07422},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Technical Report, ViVoLab, I3A, University of Zaragoza, Spain. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1511.07318

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