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Markov Observation Models and Deepfakes

2025· preprint· en· W4411014113 on OpenAlexaff
Michael A. Kouritzin

Bibliographic record

VenuePreprints.org · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicGenerative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMarkov chainEconometricsComputer scienceStatistical physicsGeographyMathematicsMachine learningPhysics

Abstract

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Herein, expanded Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are considered as potential deep fake generation and detection tools. The most specific model is the HMM, while the most general is the pairwise Markov chain (PMC). In between, the Markov observation model (MOM) is proposed, where the observations form a Markov chain conditionally on the hidden state. An Expectation-Maximization (EM) analog to the Baum-Welch algorithm is developed to estimate the transition probabilities as well as the initial hidden-state-observation joint distribution for all such models considered. This new EM algorithm also includes a recursive log-likelihood equation so model selection can be performed (after parameter convergence). Once models have been learnt through the EM algorithm, deep fakes are generated through simulation, while they are detected using the log-likelihood. Our three models are compared empirically on generative and detective ability. PMC and MOM consistently produce the best deep fake generator and detector respectively.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.849
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.140
GPT teacher head0.319
Teacher spread0.179 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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