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Part of the patch series introduced in #7.

make_exclusive runs on binarized activations, so every overlap tie resolves to the highest cluster index (100.0% of 22,297 sampled AMI overlap frames). Fixed by resolving overlaps on the continuous frame_activations instead.

AMI test-16, collar 0.25, UEM, overlap included, pyannote community-1 as control:

variant DER missed false alarm confusion
pyannote exclusive (control) 17.828% 14.387 1.632 1.808
speakrs before 18.654% 14.375 1.625 2.655
speakrs after 17.813% 14.375 1.624 1.814

Full diarization bit-identical on 16/16 files; union of speech time identical before/after (nothing dropped — the wrong speaker was being named). Downstream word-level attribution WSER 1.312% → 0.890% on a 2-speaker 66.5-min clip.

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  • New Features

    • Diarization results now include exclusive speaker segments, with no more than one active speaker at any moment.
    • Exclusive segments preserve periods of silence and apply the same filtering and merging as standard segments.
  • Improvements

    • Standard and exclusive diarization are computed consistently from shared activation data.
    • Empty and fallback results now return properly initialized exclusive segment data.

…cluster index

make_exclusive documents itself as 'zero out all but the highest-scoring
speaker in each frame', but there are no scores left by the time it runs:
Reconstructor::reconstruct/reconstruct_smoothed write 1.0 for every active
speaker (and post_inference may binarize() on top). Every overlapped frame is
an N-way tie among 1.0s, and Iterator::max_by returns the last maximum on
ties — so the surviving speaker is whichever has the highest cluster index.
Measured on AMI test-16: across 22,297 sampled overlap frames, the winner was
the highest-indexed speaker 100.0% of the time.

Change: one activation pass now feeds both reconstructions (reconstruct*_with
variants) and a new exclusive_from(full, activations) keeps, per frame, the
active speaker with the highest activation score. The exclusive timeline then
goes through the same binarize duration filter and merge_segments gap merge as
the full one. DiarizationResult gains exclusive_segments. By construction a
frame with >=1 active speaker keeps exactly one and an empty frame stays
empty — speech is neither invented nor lost (union of speech time verified
bit-identical before/after on all 16 meetings).

AMI test-16, collar 0.25, UEM, overlap included (pyannote community-1 control):
  exclusive DER 18.654% -> 17.813% (control 17.828%), confusion 2.655 -> 1.814,
  missed 14.375 and false alarm 1.624 unchanged.
Full diarization is bit-identical on 16/16 files — the fix touches only the
exclusive path.
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The pipeline now computes standard and exclusive diarization from shared frame activations. It filters and merges both outputs independently, returns exclusive_segments, and initializes the field for empty and fallback results.

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Exclusive diarization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared activation reconstruction
src/reconstruct.rs
Standard and smoothed reconstruction now use caller-supplied activations. exclusive_from selects the highest-scoring active speaker per frame and preserves silent frames.
Pipeline result integration
src/pipeline/types/data.rs, src/pipeline/post_inference.rs, src/pipeline/chunk_embedding.rs
DiarizationResult now includes exclusive_segments. Post-inference filters and merges both diarization outputs. Empty and fallback results initialize the new field.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to abd50

Padding and short-gap filling can cause the supposedly exclusive diarization output to contain two speakers in the same frame, which may misattribute speech even though total speech time is unchanged. The PR is not merge-ready until exclusivity is restored after these transformations and the case is covered by a regression test.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PostInference
  participant Reconstructor
  participant exclusive_from
  participant DiarizationResult
  PostInference->>Reconstructor: compute shared frame activations
  PostInference->>Reconstructor: build standard or smoothed diarization
  PostInference->>exclusive_from: pass full diarization and activations
  exclusive_from-->>PostInference: return exclusive diarization
  PostInference->>DiarizationResult: store filtered and merged segments
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The PR preserves continuous reconstructed activation scores and uses them to assign each overlapped frame to the strongest active speaker, exposing the result as exclusive segments.

  • Computes frame activations once for standard or smoothed reconstruction and exclusive assignment.
  • Adds exclusive segments to normal and empty diarization results.
  • Applies configured temporal cleanup and segment merging to both output variants.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The duration-filtered exclusive output needs correction before merging because fast-mode defaults can produce overlapping exclusive segments or remove speech frames.

The acoustic tie-breaking itself follows the intended score-based selection, but independently filtering each speaker after exclusivity breaks the new output contract under configurations already used by fast execution modes.

Files Needing Attention: src/pipeline/post_inference.rs

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Filename Overview
src/pipeline/post_inference.rs Shares continuous activations across reconstruction variants and assembles exclusive segments, but post-exclusive duration cleanup can reintroduce overlap or silence.
src/reconstruct.rs Adds caller-supplied activation reconstruction APIs and selects the strongest acoustically supported active speaker for each exclusive frame.
src/pipeline/types/data.rs Extends DiarizationResult with the documented exclusive segment output.
src/pipeline/chunk_embedding.rs Keeps the batch empty-result construction aligned with the expanded result type.

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%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
    A[Frame activations] --> B[Standard or smoothed top-K reconstruction]
    A --> C[Acoustic-score exclusive selection]
    B --> D[Full discrete diarization]
    C --> E[Exclusive discrete diarization]
    D --> F[Duration cleanup]
    E --> G[Per-speaker duration cleanup]
    F --> H[Segments]
    G --> I[Exclusive segments]
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let (discrete_diarization, exclusive_diarization) = if has_duration_filter {
(
DiscreteDiarization(binarize(&discrete_diarization, &config.binarize)),
DiscreteDiarization(binarize(&exclusive_diarization, &config.binarize)),

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P1 Duration cleanup breaks exclusivity

When minimum-duration filtering is enabled, binarize cleans each column of the already-exclusive matrix independently. Filling a short off-run can reactivate one speaker during frames assigned to another, while removing a short on-run can erase the sole active speaker, causing exclusive_segments to contain overlaps or lose speech under the fast-mode defaults.

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In `@src/pipeline/post_inference.rs`:
- Around line 64-68: After binarizing `exclusive_diarization` in the
`has_duration_filter` branch, run the existing exclusive-resolution logic before
constructing the final `DiscreteDiarization`, so overlapping speaker activations
are reduced to one speaker per frame. Add a regression test covering adjacent
speakers with nonzero padding and verify that `exclusive_segments` remains
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Comment thread src/pipeline/post_inference.rs
exclusive_from() guarantees at most one active speaker per frame, but that
guarantee doesn't survive binarize(): it runs per-speaker independently, so
min_duration_on/pad_onset/etc. can extend one speaker's region into a frame
another speaker's region was independently extended into, reintroducing
overlap in the 'exclusive' output.

Found by @coderabbitai/greptile review on this PR (thank you) and confirmed
empirically: all 16 AMI test-16 files had post-binarize overlap in the
exclusive channel (20-183 overlapping segment pairs per file) before this fix.

Fix: resolve_exclusive_conflicts() re-collapses any frame left with >1 active
speaker after binarize to its highest-activation speaker, using the same
scores exclusive_from used originally.

Verified on AMI test-16: overlap count 0/16 files after the fix (down from
20-183 per file), DER unchanged at 17.813% (still beating the pyannote
exclusive control of 17.828%) - the fix is accuracy-neutral, pure correctness.
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Pushed a follow-up commit addressing the review: exclusivity established by exclusive_from doesn't survive binarize, which runs per-speaker independently and can pad two speakers' regions into the same frame. Verified empirically on AMI test-16 — all 16 files had post-binarize overlap (20-183 overlapping segment pairs per file) before this fix, 0 after. DER unchanged at 17.813%, so the fix is accuracy-neutral. Thanks for catching this.

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