  This paper describes the multi-query multi-head attention (MQMHA) pooling and
inter-topK penalty methods which were first proposed in our submitted system
description for VoxCeleb speaker recognition challenge (VoxSRC) 2021. Most
multi-head attention pooling mechanisms either attend to the whole feature
through multiple heads or attend to several split parts of the whole feature.
Our proposed MQMHA combines both these two mechanisms and gain more diversified
information. The margin-based softmax loss functions are commonly adopted to
obtain discriminative speaker representations. To further enhance the
inter-class discriminability, we propose a method that adds an extra inter-topK
penalty on some confused speakers. By adopting both the MQMHA and inter-topK
penalty, we achieved state-of-the-art performance in all of the public VoxCeleb
test sets.

Sound;Audio and Speech Processing