Dual-LoRA: Parameter-Efficient Adversarial Disentanglement for Cross-Lingual Speaker Verification
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Cross-lingual speaker verification suffers from severe language-speaker entanglement. This causes systematic degradation in the hardest scenario: correctly accepting utterances from the same speaker across different languages while rejecting those from different speakers sharing the same language. Standard adversarial disentanglement degrades speaker discriminability; blind discriminators inadvertently penalize speaker-discriminative traits that merely correlate with language. To address this, we propose Dual-LoRA, injecting trainable task-factorized LoRA adapters into a frozen pre-trained backbone. Our core innovation is a Language-Anchored Adversary: by grounding the discriminator with an explicit language branch, adversarial gradients target true linguistic cues rather than arbitrary correlations, preserving essential speaker characteristics. Evaluated on the TidyVoice benchmark, our system achieves a 0.91% validation EER and achieves 3rd place in the official challenge.