cs.CLJun 30, 2026

Linguistic Bias Mitigation for Spoofing Detection via Gradient Reversal and A Variational Information Bottleneck

Authors: Anh-Tuan DaoDriss MatroufMickael RouvierNicholas Evans

Organizations: Laboratoire Informatique d’Avignon, Avignon Universite, France · EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France

Abstract

Rapid advancements in generative speech technology have compromised the reliability of voice biometrics. While current spoofing detectors excel when assessed under in-domain conditions, generalisation to out-of-domain settings is often poor. We show that this can be due to linguistic bias. A reliance on linguistic cues observed in training data can then compromise robustness to cross-data. We propose a linguistic-invariant spoofing detection framework utilizing teacher-student adversarial learning. The linguistic-aware teacher model, pre-trained on linguistic content of an external dataset, guides the student detector via gradient reversal to minimize the linguistic information. To prevent the inadvertent removal of non-linguistic cues, we incorporate a Variational Information Bottleneck to enable suppression of principal cues. Across nine DF Arena datasets, our method achieves up to a 36.2% relative reduction in the EER compare to the baseline.

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