sslsv is a PyTorch-based deep learning toolkit consisting of a collection of Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) frameworks for learning speaker representations, applicable to various speaker-related downstream tasks, notably Speaker Verification (SV).
Its main objectives are to: (1) provide implementations of state-of-the-art SSL frameworks by adapting algorithms from the computer vision domain; and (2) evaluate them within a consistent and comparable environment.
An overview of the general training and evaluation framework is provided in the figure below.
- June 2025 – 👏 Release of results and checkpoints (v2.0).
- June 2025 – 🔖 Support for Python 3.13 and PyTorch 2.7.
- December 2024 – 🧪 Implementation of SimCLR MultiViews and MoCo Margins.
- November 2024 – 💡 Implementation of Self-Supervised Positive Sampling (SSPS).
- July 2024 – 🌱 Implementation of more losses for SimCLR Margins (SphereFace, CurricularFace, MagFace, AdaFace).
- May 2024 – 📚 Documentation of the complete codebase.
- April 2024 – 🛠️ Complete refactoring, including typing, tests, and coding style (v2.0).
- January 2024 – 🚀 Implementation of the W-MSE framework.
- July 2023 – ⚡ Support for PyTorch Distributed Data Parallel (DDP).
- June 2023 – 🧠 Evaluation on language, emotion, age, and gender recognition tasks.
- April 2023 – 📊 Additional benchmarks (SITW, VOiCES) and metrics (CLLR, ActDCF, AvgRPrec).
- March 2023 – 📏 Support for cosine scoring normalizations and PLDA evaluations.
- January 2023 – 🧪 Implementation of SimCLR Margins (CosFace and ArcFace).
- December 2022 – 🚀 Implementation of SSL frameworks: LIM, CPC, SimCLR, MoCo, Barlow Twins, VICReg, VIbCReg, DeepCluster, SwAV, SimSiam, BYOL, and DINO.
- June 2022 – 🌠 First release of sslsv (v1.0).
General
- Data:
- Supervised and Self-supervised datasets (siamese and DINO sampling)
- Audio augmentation (noise and reverberation)
- Training:
- CPU, GPU and multi-GPUs (DataParallel and DistributedDataParallel)
- Checkpointing, resuming, early stopping and logging
- Tensorboard and wandb
- Evaluation:
- Speaker verification
- Backend: Cosine scoring and PLDA
- Metrics: EER, MinDCF, ActDFC, CLLR, AvgRPrec
- Classification (emotion, language, ...)
- Speaker verification
- Notebooks: DET curve, scores distribution, t-SNE on embeddings, ...
- Misc: scalable config, typing, documentation and tests
Encoders
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TDNN (
sslsv.encoders.TDNN)
X-vectors: Robust dnn embeddings for speaker recognition (PDF)
David Snyder, Daniel Garcia-Romero, Gregory Sell, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur -
Simple Audio CNN (
sslsv.encoders.SimpleAudioCNN)
Representation Learning with Contrastive Predictive Coding (arXiv)
Aaron van den Oord, Yazhe Li, Oriol Vinyals -
ResNet-34 (
sslsv.encoders.ResNet34)
VoxCeleb2: Deep Speaker Recognition (arXiv)
Joon Son Chung, Arsha Nagrani, Andrew Zisserman -
ECAPA-TDNN (
sslsv.encoders.ECAPATDNN)
ECAPA-TDNN: Emphasized Channel Attention, Propagation and Aggregation in TDNN Based Speaker Verification (arXiv)
Brecht Desplanques, Jenthe Thienpondt, Kris Demuynck
Frameworks
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LIM (
sslsv.methods.LIM)
Learning Speaker Representations with Mutual Information (arXiv)
Mirco Ravanelli, Yoshua Bengio -
CPC (
sslsv.methods.CPC)
Representation Learning with Contrastive Predictive Coding (arXiv)
Aaron van den Oord, Yazhe Li, Oriol Vinyals -
SimCLR (
sslsv.methods.SimCLR)
A Simple Framework for Contrastive Learning of Visual Representations (arXiv)
Ting Chen, Simon Kornblith, Mohammad Norouzi, Geoffrey Hinton -
MoCo v2+ (
sslsv.methods.MoCo)
Improved Baselines with Momentum Contrastive Learning (arXiv)
Xinlei Chen, Haoqi Fan, Ross Girshick, Kaiming He -
DeepCluster v2 (
sslsv.methods.DeepCluster)
Deep Clustering for Unsupervised Learning of Visual Features (arXiv)
Mathilde Caron, Piotr Bojanowski, Armand Joulin, Matthijs Douze -
SwAV (
sslsv.methods.SwAV)
Unsupervised Learning of Visual Features by Contrasting Cluster Assignments (arXiv)
Mathilde Caron, Ishan Misra, Julien Mairal, Priya Goyal, Piotr Bojanowski, Armand Joulin -
W-MSE (
sslsv.methods.WMSE)
Whitening for Self-Supervised Representation Learning (arXiv)
Aleksandr Ermolov, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Enver Sangineto, Nicu Sebe -
Barlow Twins (
sslsv.methods.BarlowTwins)
Barlow Twins: Self-Supervised Learning via Redundancy Reduction (arXiv)
Jure Zbontar, Li Jing, Ishan Misra, Yann LeCun, Stéphane Deny -
VICReg (
sslsv.methods.VICReg)
VICReg: Variance-Invariance-Covariance Regularization for Self-Supervised Learning (arXiv)
Adrien Bardes, Jean Ponce, Yann LeCun -
VIbCReg (
sslsv.methods.VIbCReg)
Computer Vision Self-supervised Learning Methods on Time Series (arXiv)
Daesoo Lee, Erlend Aune -
BYOL (
sslsv.methods.BYOL)
Bootstrap Your Own Latent: A New Approach to Self-Supervised Learning (arXiv)
Jean-Bastien Grill, Florian Strub, Florent Altché, Corentin Tallec, Pierre H. Richemond, Elena Buchatskaya, Carl Doersch, Bernardo Avila Pires, Zhaohan Daniel Guo, Mohammad Gheshlaghi Azar, Bilal Piot, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Rémi Munos, Michal Valko -
SimSiam (
sslsv.methods.SimSiam)
Exploring Simple Siamese Representation Learning (arXiv)
Xinlei Chen, Kaiming He -
DINO (
sslsv.methods.DINO)
Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers (arXiv)
Mathilde Caron, Hugo Touvron, Ishan Misra, Hervé Jégou, Julien Mairal, Piotr Bojanowski, Armand Joulin
Methods (contributions)
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Combiner (
sslsv.methods.Combiner)
Label-Efficient Self-Supervised Speaker Verification With Information Maximization and Contrastive Learning (arXiv)
Theo Lepage, Reda Dehak -
SimCLR Margins (
sslsv.methods.SimCLRMargins)
Additive Margin in Contrastive Self-Supervised Frameworks to Learn Discriminative Speaker Representations (arXiv)
Theo Lepage, Reda Dehak -
MoCo Margins (
sslsv.methods.MoCoMargins)
Additive Margin in Contrastive Self-Supervised Frameworks to Learn Discriminative Speaker Representations (arXiv)
Theo Lepage, Reda Dehak -
SSPS (
sslsv.methods._SSPS)
Self-Supervised Frameworks for Speaker Verification via Bootstrapped Positive Sampling (arxiv)
Theo Lepage, Reda Dehak
sslsv runs on Python 3.13.3 with the following dependencies.
| Module | Versions |
|---|---|
| torch | 2.7.1 |
| torchaudio | 2.7.1 |
| numpy | * |
| pandas | * |
| soundfile | * |
| scikit-learn | * |
| speechbrain | * |
| tensorboard | * |
| wandb | * |
| ruamel.yaml | * |
| dacite | * |
| prettyprinter | * |
| tqdm | * |
Note: developers will also need pytest, pre-commit and twine to work on this project.
Speaker recognition:
Language recognition:
Emotion recognition:
Data-augmentation:
Data used for main experiments (conducted on VoxCeleb1 and VoxCeleb2 + data-augmentation) can be automatically downloaded, extracted and prepared using the following scripts.
python tools/prepare_data/prepare_voxceleb.py data/
python tools/prepare_data/prepare_augmentation.py data/The resulting data folder shoud have the structure presented below.
data
├── musan_split/
├── simulated_rirs/
├── voxceleb1/
├── voxceleb2/
├── voxceleb1_test_O
├── voxceleb1_test_H
├── voxceleb1_test_E
├── voxsrc2021_val
├── voxceleb1_train.csv
└── voxceleb2_train.csv
Other datasets have to be manually downloaded and extracted but their train and trials files can be created using the corresponding scripts from the tools/prepare_data/ folder.
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Example format of a train file (
voxceleb1_train.csv)File,Speaker voxceleb1/id10001/1zcIwhmdeo4/00001.wav,id10001 ... voxceleb1/id11251/s4R4hvqrhFw/00009.wav,id11251 -
Example format of a trials file (
voxceleb1_test_O)1 voxceleb1/id10270/x6uYqmx31kE/00001.wav voxceleb1/id10270/8jEAjG6SegY/00008.wav ... 0 voxceleb1/id10309/0cYFdtyWVds/00005.wav voxceleb1/id10296/Y-qKARMSO7k/00001.wav
- Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/theolepage/sslsv.git. - Install dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt.
Note: sslsv can also be installed as a standalone package via pip with pip install sslsv or with pip install . (in the project root folder) to get the latest version.
- Start a training (2 GPUs):
./train_ddp.sh 2 <config_path>. - Evaluate your model (2 GPUs):
./evaluate_ddp.sh 2 <config_path>.
Note: use sslsv/bin/train.py and sslsv/bin/evaluate.py for non-distributed mode to run with a CPU, a single GPU or multiple GPUs (DataParallel).
You can visualize your experiments with tensorboard --logdir models/your_model/.
Use wandb online and wandb offline to toggle wandb. To log your experiments you first need to provide your API key with wandb login API_KEY.
Documentation is currently being developed...
- Configs:
models/ssl/voxceleb2/ - Train set: VoxCeleb2
- Evaluation: VoxCeleb1-O (Original)
- Encoder: Fast ResNet-34 and ECAPA-TDNN
| Method | Model | EER (%) | minDCF (p=0.01) | Checkpoint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIM | lim/lim_loss-NCE_proj-2048-BN-R-2048-BN-R-512 |
16.13 | 0.9015 | |
| CPC | cpc/cpc_t-4_agg-GRU-1-256 |
12.77 | 0.8033 | |
| SimCLR | simclr/simclr_proj-none_t-0.03 |
9.05 | 0.6364 | 🔗 |
| MoCo | moco/moco_proj-none_Q-32768_t-0.03_m-0.999 |
8.49 | 0.5990 | 🔗 |
| DeepCluster | deepcluster/deepcluster_proj-2048-BN-R-2048-BN-R-512_K-3000-3000-3000_t-0.1 |
15.16 | 0.8193 | |
| SwAV | swav/swav_proj-2048-BN-R-2048-BN-R-512_K-6000_t-0.1 |
11.82 | 0.7177 | 🔗 |
| W-MSE | wmse/wmse_proj-1024-BN-R-64_ws-128 |
14.62 | 0.8506 | |
| Barlow Twins | barlowtwins/barlowtwins_proj-2048-BN-R-2048-BN-R-512_lambda-0.005 |
13.22 | 0.7658 | |
| VICReg | vicreg/vicreg_proj-2048-BN-R-2048-BN-R-512_inv-1.0_var-1.0_cov-0.1 |
11.33 | 0.6658 | 🔗 |
| BYOL | byol/byol_proj-2048-BN-R-2048-BN-R-512_pred-4096-BN-R-256_m-0.996-sched |
13.99 | 0.7509 | |
| SimSiam | simsiam/simsiam_proj-2048-BN-R-2048-BN-R-512-BN_pred-512-BN-R-2048 |
28.94 | 0.9984 | |
| DINO | dino/dino_proj-2048-BN-G-2048-BN-G-256-L2-65536_G-2x4_L-4x2_t-0.04 |
6.04 | 0.4526 | 🔗 |
| Supervised | supervised/supervised_loss-AAM_s-30_m-0.2 |
2.95 | 0.3122 | 🔗 |
| Method | Model | EER (%) | minDCF (p=0.01) | Checkpoint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SimCLR | simclr/simclr_enc-ECAPATDNN-1024_proj-none_t-0.03 |
6.41 | 0.5160 | 🔗 |
| MoCo | moco/moco_enc-ECAPATDNN-1024_proj-none_Q-32768_t-0.03_m-0.999 |
6.48 | 0.5372 | 🔗 |
| SwAV | swav/swav_enc-ECAPATDNN-1024_proj-2048-BN-R-2048-BN-R-512_K-6000_t-0.1 |
8.12 | 0.6148 | 🔗 |
| VICReg | vicreg/vicreg_enc-ECAPATDNN-1024_proj-2048-BN-R-2048-BN-R-512_inv-1.0_var-1.0_cov-0.1 |
7.42 | 0.5659 | 🔗 |
| DINO | dino/dino_enc-ECAPATDNN-1024_proj-2048-BN-G-2048-BN-G-256-L2-65536_G-2x4_L-4x2_t-0.04 |
2.82 | 0.3463 | 🔗 |
| Supervised | supervised/supervised_enc-ECAPATDNN-1024_loss-AAM_s-30_m-0.2 |
1.34 | 0.1521 | 🔗 |
- Configs:
models/ssps/voxceleb2/ - Train set: VoxCeleb2
- Evaluation: VoxCeleb1-O (Original)
- Encoder: ECAPA-TDNN
| Method | Model | EER (%) | minDCF (p=0.01) | Checkpoint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SimCLR | simclr_e-ecapa/ssps_kmeans_25k_uni-1 |
2.57 | 0.3033 | 🔗 |
| DINO | dino_e-ecapa/ssps_kmeans_25k_uni-1 |
2.53 | 0.2843 | 🔗 |
sslsv contains third-party components and code adapted from other open-source projects, including: voxceleb_trainer, voxceleb_unsupervised and solo-learn.
If you use sslsv, please consider starring this repository on GitHub and citing one the following papers.
@InProceedings{lepage2025SSPS,
title = {SSPS: Self-Supervised Positive Sampling for Robust Self-Supervised Speaker Verification},
author = {Lepage, Theo and Dehak, Reda},
year = {2025},
booktitle = {Interspeech 2025},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14561},
}
@Article{lepage2025SSLSVBootstrappedPositiveSampling,
title = {Self-Supervised Frameworks for Speaker Verification via Bootstrapped Positive Sampling},
author = {Lepage, Theo and Dehak, Reda},
year = {2025},
journal = {arXiv preprint library},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17772},
}
@InProceedings{lepage2024AdditiveMarginSSLSV,
title = {Additive Margin in Contrastive Self-Supervised Frameworks to Learn Discriminative Speaker Representations},
author = {Lepage, Theo and Dehak, Reda},
year = {2024},
booktitle = {The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (Odyssey 2024)},
pages = {38--42},
doi = {10.21437/odyssey.2024-6},
url = {https://www.isca-archive.org/odyssey_2024/lepage24_odyssey.html},
}
@InProceedings{lepage2023ExperimentingAdditiveMarginsSSLSV,
title = {Experimenting with Additive Margins for Contrastive Self-Supervised Speaker Verification},
author = {Lepage, Theo and Dehak, Reda},
year = {2023},
booktitle = {Interspeech 2023},
pages = {4708--4712},
doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1479},
url = {https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2023/lepage23_interspeech.html},
}
@InProceedings{lepage2022LabelEfficientSSLSV,
title = {Label-Efficient Self-Supervised Speaker Verification With Information Maximization and Contrastive Learning},
author = {Lepage, Theo and Dehak, Reda},
year = {2022},
booktitle = {Interspeech 2022},
pages = {4018--4022},
doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2022-802},
url = {https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2022/lepage22_interspeech.html},
}This project is released under the MIT License.