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Mikhail Gorodnichev

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When Spoof Detectors Travel: Evaluation Across 66 Languages in the Low-Resource Language Spoofing Corpus

We introduce LRLspoof, a large-scale multilingual synthetic-speech corpus for cross-lingual spoof detection, comprising 2,732 hours of audio generated with 24 open-source TTS systems across 66 languages, including 45 low-resource languages under our operational definition. To evaluate robustness without requiring target-domain bonafide speech, we benchmark 11 publicly available countermeasures using threshold transfer: for each model we calibrate an EER operating point on pooled external benchmarks and apply the resulting threshold, reporting spoof rejection rate (SRR). Results show model-dependent cross-lingual disparity, with spoof rejection varying markedly across languages even under controlled conditions, highlighting language as an independent source of domain shift in spoof detection. The dataset is publicly available at \href{https://huggingface.co/datasets/lab260/LRLspoof}{\textbf{\underline{\textit{HuggingFace}}}} and \href{https://modelscope.cn/datasets/lab260/LRLspoof}{\textbf{\underline{\textit{ModelScope}}}}

cs.SD

Balalaika: Data-Centric, Prosody-Aware Annotation Pipeline for Russian Speech

We introduce Balalaika, an open-source, data-centric pipeline for processing audio and producing prosody-aware annotations. It combines semantic VAD for context-preserving segmentation, multi-ASR ensembling with ROVER consensus decoding, while retaining optional word-level timestamps, followed by automatic quality and speaker-purity filtering. The text is further enriched with punctuation restoration, lexical stress and "\textipa{e}/\textipa{He}" normalization, and IPA phonemes. Using Balalaika, we build a 5.1k-hour multi-source Russian corpus with rich annotations, and show consistent gains under equalized training budgets for both speech denoising and TTS; ablations confirm complementary benefits of stress and punctuation and improved synthesis with stricter MOS filtering. The datasets are publicly available at \href{https://huggingface.co/collections/lab260/balalaika-dataset}{\underline{\textbf{HuggingFace}}}

cs.CL

AASIST3: KAN-Enhanced AASIST Speech Deepfake Detection using SSL Features and Additional Regularization for the ASVspoof 2024 Challenge

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) systems, which identify speakers based on their voice characteristics, have numerous applications, such as user authentication in financial transactions, exclusive access control in smart devices, and forensic fraud detection. However, the advancement of deep learning algorithms has enabled the generation of synthetic audio through Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Voice Conversion (VC) systems, exposing ASV systems to potential vulnerabilities. To counteract this, we propose a novel architecture named AASIST3. By enhancing the existing AASIST framework with Kolmogorov-Arnold networks, additional layers, encoders, and pre-emphasis techniques, AASIST3 achieves a more than twofold improvement in performance. It demonstrates minDCF results of 0.5357 in the closed condition and 0.1414 in the open condition, significantly enhancing the detection of synthetic voices and improving ASV security. \textbf{The new version of the model is publicly available at \href{https://huggingface.co/lab260/Spectra-AASIST3}{\underline{HuggingFace (2026)}}}

cs.SD

Interpreting Multi-Branch Anti-Spoofing Architectures: Correlating Internal Strategy with Empirical Performance

Multi-branch deep neural networks like AASIST3 achieve state-of-the-art comparable performance in audio anti-spoofing, yet their internal decision dynamics remain opaque compared to traditional input-level saliency methods. While existing interpretability efforts largely focus on visualizing input artifacts, the way individual architectural branches cooperate or compete under different spoofing attacks is not well characterized. This paper develops a framework for interpreting AASIST3 at the component level. Intermediate activations from fourteen branches and global attention modules are modeled with covariance operators whose leading eigenvalues form low-dimensional spectral signatures. These signatures train a CatBoost meta-classifier to generate TreeSHAP-based branch attributions, which we convert into normalized contribution shares and confidence scores (Cb) to quantify the model's operational strategy. By analyzing 13 spoofing attacks from the ASVspoof 2019 benchmark, we identify four operational archetypes-ranging from Effective Specialization (e.g., A09, Equal Error Rate (EER) 0.04%, C=1.56) to Ineffective Consensus (e.g., A08, EER 3.14%, C=0.33). Crucially, our analysis exposes a Flawed Specialization mode where the model places high confidence in an incorrect branch, leading to severe performance degradation for attacks A17 and A18 (EER 14.26% and 28.63%, respectively). These quantitative findings link internal architectural strategy directly to empirical reliability, highlighting specific structural dependencies that standard performance metrics overlook.

cs.SD

Combining Masked Language Modeling and Cross-Modal Contrastive Learning for Prosody-Aware TTS

We investigate multi-stage pretraining for prosody modeling in diffusion-based TTS. A speaker-conditioned dual-stream encoder is trained with masked language modeling followed by SigLIP-style cross-modal contrastive learning using mixed-phoneme batches, with an additional same-phoneme refinement stage studied separately. We evaluate intrinsic text-audio retrieval and downstream synthesis in Grad-TTS and a latent diffusion TTS system. The two-stage curriculum (MLM + mixed-phoneme contrastive learning) achieves the best overall synthesis quality in terms of intelligibility, speaker similarity, and perceptual measures. Although same-phoneme refinement improves prosodic retrieval, it reduces phoneme discrimination and degrades synthesis. These findings indicate that improvements in embedding-space metrics do not necessarily translate to better generative performance and highlight the need to balance phoneme discrimination and prosodic sensitivity in TTS pretraining.

cs.SD

Benchmarking Compact VLMs for Clip-Level Surveillance Anomaly Detection Under Weak Supervision

CCTV safety monitoring demands anomaly detectors combine reliable clip-level accuracy with predictable per-clip latency despite weak supervision. This work investigates compact vision-language models (VLMs) as practical detectors for this regime. A unified evaluation protocol standardizes preprocessing, prompting, dataset splits, metrics, and runtime settings to compare parameter-efficiently adapted compact VLMs against training-free VLM pipelines and weakly supervised baselines. Evaluation spans accuracy, precision, recall, F1, ROC-AUC, and average per-clip latency to jointly quantify detection quality and efficiency. With parameter-efficient adaptation, compact VLMs achieve performance on par with, and in several cases exceeding, established approaches while retaining competitive per-clip latency. Adaptation further reduces prompt sensitivity, producing more consistent behavior across prompt regimes under the shared protocol. These results show that parameter-efficient fine-tuning enables compact VLMs to serve as dependable clip-level anomaly detectors, yielding a favorable accuracy-efficiency trade-off within a transparent and consistent experimental setup.

cs.CV

An information security monitoring and management system for 5G and 6G Networks based on SDN/NFV

An approach to using the concept of Software-Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization (SDN/NFV) for the implementation of an information security monitoring and management system in 5G and 6G networks is proposed. SDN switches based on the OpenFlow protocol are offered as network sensors. In order to reduce the time for finding a subset of the right rules in the vast array of all rules on traffic filtering systems that are logically located on sensors, a method of processing and filtering traffic in 5G and 6G transport networks is proposed. This method is based on DPDK with the LPM algorithm and is capable of processing up to 8 megapackets per second on 1 CPU core; the packet processing takes O(1), which is significantly lower than with similar algorithms. The managing subsystem consists of regional monitoring centres and a main one. The main Monitoring Centre includes a main cluster of SDN controllers along with Active/Active redundancy scheme. The regional centres represent SDN software controllers that manage locally subordinate sensors. All the managing centres are interconnected via the Transport subsystem and form a network. An algorithm for network sensor load balancing between SDN controllers has been developed in order to provide fault tolerance, load balancing and network connectivity. The algorithm results in a set of optimal sensor groups with total load not exceeding the maximum capacity of the SDN controllers.

cs.NI