Exploring Second-Order Pattern Recognition in Speaker Recognition
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arXiv:2609.11182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In classical pattern recognition tasks, neural networks are trained to recognise human-defined patterns for model inputs. Some Explainable AI (XAI) methods can explain other latent patterns that underlie the network's recognition of inputs as human-defined patterns; in this work, we call these latent patterns second-order patterns, and we propose to discover them. To this end, we apply a hierarchical clustering algorithm to analyse whether representations learned by a speaker recognition network from utterances naturally form hierarchical clust
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.11182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In classical pattern recognition tasks, neural networks are trained to recognise human-defined patterns for model inputs.
- Some Explainable AI (XAI) methods can explain other latent patterns that underlie the network's recognition of inputs as human-defined patterns; in this work, we call these latent patterns second-order patterns, and we propose to discover them.
- To this end, we apply a hierarchical clustering algorithm to analyse whether representations learned by a speaker recognition network from utterances naturally form hierarchical clust
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