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Najim Dehak

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arxiveess.AScs.AI2026-07-06

ProPS: Prompted Profile Synthesis for Natural Language-Conditioned Speaker Embedding Distributions

Thomas Thebaud, Junhyeok Lee, Laureano Moro-Velazquez, Jesus Villalba Lopez, Najim Dehak

Speaker embeddings, or x-vectors, are widely used to represent speaker identity and speaker-related attributes, but existing embedding extractors are typically descriptive rather than generative: they map an observed speech segment to an x-vector, which is then used for downstrea…

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arxivcs.SDcs.AIcs.CL2026-06-27

Clustering Unsupervised Representations as Defense against Poisoning Attacks on Speech Commands Classification System

Thomas Thebaud, Sonal Joshi, Henry Li, Martin Sustek, Jesus Villalba, Sanjeev Khudanpur, et al.

Poisoning attacks entail attackers intentionally tampering with training data. In this paper, we consider a dirty-label poisoning attack scenario on a speech commands classification system. The threat model assumes that certain utterances from one of the classes (source class) ar…

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