# Audio Deepfake Detection with Self-Supervised WavLM and Multi-Fusion Attentive Classifier

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08089 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.08089/

## Key facts

- Cited by 27 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 13 Dec 2023.

## Built on by (most cited first, 27 of 27)

- [XLSR-Mamba: A Dual-Column Bidirectional State Space Model for Spoofing Attack Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.10027/) (2024)
- [Mixture of Experts Fusion for Fake Audio Detection Using Frozen wav2vec 2.0](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.11909/) (2024)
- [Nes2Net: A Lightweight Nested Architecture for Foundation Model Driven Speech Anti-spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.05657/) (2025)
- [SLIM: Style-Linguistics Mismatch Model for Generalized Audio Deepfake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.18517/) (2024)
- [VoiceShop: A Unified Speech-to-Speech Framework for Identity-Preserving Zero-Shot Voice Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.06674/) (2024)
- [Retrieval-Augmented Audio Deepfake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.13892/) (2024)
- [Easy, Interpretable, Effective: openSMILE for voice deepfake detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.15775/) (2024)
- [WaveSP-Net: Learnable Wavelet-Domain Sparse Prompt Tuning for Speech Deepfake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.05305/) (2025)
- [Passive Deepfake Detection Across Multi-modalities: A Comprehensive Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.17911/) (2024)
- [Anomaly Detection and Localization for Speech Deepfakes via Feature Pyramid Matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.18032/) (2025)
- [Multi-level SSL Feature Gating for Audio Deepfake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.03409/) (2025)
- [WaveScat: Wavelet Scattering Front-Ends with Self-Supervised Features for Speech Deepfake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.02980/) (2026)
- [End-to-end Audio Deepfake Detection from RAW Waveforms: a RawNet-Based Approach with Cross-Dataset Evaluation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.20923/) (2025)
- [Unraveling Hidden Representations: A Multi-Modal Layer Analysis for Better Synthetic Content Forensics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.00784/) (2025)
- [Curved Worlds, Clear Boundaries: Generalizing Speech Deepfake Detection using Hyperbolic and Spherical Geometry Spaces](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.10793/) (2025)
- [Investigating self-supervised representations for audio-visual deepfake detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.17181/) (2025)
- [SONAR: Spectral-Contrastive Audio Residuals for Generalizable Deepfake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.21325/) (2025)
- [Melody or Machine: Detecting Synthetic Music with Dual-Stream Contrastive Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.00621/) (2025)
- [Investigating the Viability of Employing Multi-modal Large Language Models in the Context of Audio Deepfake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.00777/) (2026)
- [Enhancing Synthetic Training Data for Speech Commands: From ASR-Based Filtering to Domain Adaptation in SSL Latent Space](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.12745/) (2024)
- [3-Tracer: A Tri-level Temporal-Aware Framework for Audio Forgery Detection and Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.21237/) (2025)
- [Zero-Shot to Zero-Lies: Detecting Bengali Deepfake Audio through Transfer Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.21702/) (2025)
- [HyperPotter: Spell the Charm of High-Order Interactions in Audio Deepfake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.05670/) (2026)
- [Supervised Post-training of Speech Foundation Models for Robust Adaptation in Speech Deepfake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.25328/) (2026)
- [Detecting Audio Deepfakes on the Edge:Lightweight SSL-Based Detection in a Browser Plugin](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.30780/) (2026)
- [GLAD: Global-Local Adaptive Detector for Robust Speech Deepfake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.35411/) (2026)
- [Adaptive Compression and Targeted Perturbation: A Unified Framework for Generalized Audio Deepfake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.16049/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

With the rapid development of speech synthesis and voice conversion technologies, Audio Deepfake has become a serious threat to the Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) system. Numerous countermeasures are proposed to detect this type of attack. In this paper, we report our efforts to combine the self-supervised WavLM model and Multi-Fusion Attentive classifier for audio deepfake detection. Our method exploits the WavLM model to extract features that are more conducive to spoofing detection for the first time. Then, we propose a novel Multi-Fusion Attentive (MFA) classifier based on the Attentive Statistics Pooling (ASP) layer. The MFA captures the complementary information of audio features at both time and layer levels. Experiments demonstrate that our methods achieve state-of-the-art results on the ASVspoof 2021 DF set and provide competitive results on the ASVspoof 2019 and 2021 LA set.