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Record W4411823757 · doi:10.3390/math13132128

Markov Observation Models and Deepfakes

2025· article· en· W4411823757 on OpenAlexaff
Michael A. Kouritzin

Bibliographic record

VenueMathematics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicGenerative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMarkov chainComputer scienceMachine learning

Abstract

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Herein, expanded Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are considered as potential deepfake 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 the models considered. This new EM algorithm also includes a recursive log-likelihood equation so that model selection can be performed (after parameter convergence). Once models have been learnt through the EM algorithm, deepfakes are generated through simulation, while they are detected using the log-likelihood. Our three models were compared empirically in terms of their generative and detective ability. PMC and MOM consistently produced the best deepfake generator and detector, respectively.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
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 score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.012

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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 head0.025
GPT teacher head0.239
Teacher spread0.214 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
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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