Identity Is Not the Keyword

Adversarial disentanglement (GRL + CLUB), dual-gate scoring, and four-phase training produce a 0.60 MB model for custom wake word detection. Achieves 4.69% keyword EER and 0.8425 joint AUC with only 1.8M parameters — deployable on CPU at 26 ms per 2-second window.

July 1, 2026 · 19 min · Sohini Banerjee and Swarnim Tripathi