MK-SGC-SC: Multiple Kernel Guided Sparse Graph Construction in Spectral Clustering for Unsupervised Speaker Diarization
This work addresses the challenges of lacking labeled data and reliance on pretraining in unsupervised speaker diarization by proposing a multi-kernel fusion–based similarity measure. It systematically integrates polynomial kernels with first-order arc-cosine kernels for the first time to construct a sparse affinity graph that emphasizes local structural properties, followed by spectral clustering for speaker segmentation and clustering. The method requires no supervision or pretrained models and achieves state-of-the-art unsupervised performance on major benchmarks including DIHARD-III, AMI, and VoxConverse, significantly advancing the practical applicability of unsupervised speaker diarization.