# Representation Loss Minimization with Randomized Selection Strategy for Efficient Environmental Fake Audio Detection

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15767 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.15767/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 24 Sep 2024.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Environmental Sound Deepfake Detection Using Deep-Learning Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.19652/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The adaptation of foundation models has significantly advanced environmental audio deepfake detection (EADD), a rapidly growing area of research. These models are typically fine-tuned or utilized in their frozen states for downstream tasks. However, the dimensionality of their representations can substantially lead to a high parameter count of downstream models, leading to higher computational demands. So, a general way is to compress these representations by leveraging state-of-the-art (SOTA) unsupervised dimensionality reduction techniques (PCA, SVD, KPCA, GRP) for efficient EADD. However, with the application of such techniques, we observe a drop in performance. So in this paper, we show that representation vectors contain redundant information, and randomly selecting 40-50% of representation values and building downstream models on it preserves or sometimes even improves performance. We show that such random selection preserves more performance than the SOTA dimensionality reduction techniques while reducing model parameters and inference time by almost over half.
