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arXiv Machine Learning By Mohamed Mallat, Michele Panariello, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicholas Evans, Anthony Larcher

Interpreting SSL Representations for Spoof Detection: a WavLM Study

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The study investigates which layers of the self‑supervised speech model WavLM carry the most spoof‑relevant information for spoof detection. Using the ASVspoof 5 database, the authors perform per‑layer linear probing, canonical correlation analysis (CCA) with acoustic features, and a grid search over layer subsets, finding that five specific layers outperform pooling all thirteen. CCA shows mid‑layers align with most acoustic features, while voice‑quality metrics correlate more with later layers, and visualizations suggest deeper layers encode general synthesis artifacts rather than attack‑specific signatures.

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