Explainable AI in Speaker Recognition -- Making Latent Representations Understandable

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23354v1
• Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:44:20 GMT
• Title: Explainable AI in Speaker Recognition -- Making Latent Representations Understandable
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes to study an XAI topic: uncovering unknown organisational patterns in network representations.<n>It applies two algorithms to analyse how representations form clusters with hierarchical relationships rather than being independent.<n>A new metric, Liebig's score, is proposed to diagnose the factor that most strongly limits matching performance.
• Score: 21.594428525994285
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Neural networks can be trained to learn task-relevant representations from data. Understanding how these networks make decisions falls within the Explainable AI (XAI) domain. This paper proposes to study an XAI topic: uncovering unknown organisational patterns in network representations, particularly those representations learned by the speaker recognition network that recognises the speaker identity of utterances. Past studies employed algorithms (e.g. t-distributed Stochastic Neighbour Embedding and K-means) to analyse and visualise how network representations form independent clusters, indicating the presence of flat clustering phenomena within the space defined by these representations. In contrast, this work applies two algorithms -- Single-Linkage Clustering (SLINK) and Hierarchical Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (HDBSCAN) -- to analyse how representations form clusters with hierarchical relationships rather than being independent, thereby demonstrating the existence of hierarchical clustering phenomena within the network representation space. To semantically understand the above hierarchical clustering phenomena, a new algorithm, termed Hierarchical Cluster-Class Matching (HCCM), is designed to perform one-to-one matching between predefined semantic classes and hierarchical representation clusters (i.e. those produced by SLINK or HDBSCAN). Some hierarchical clusters are successfully matched to individual semantic classes (e.g. male, UK), while others to conjunctions of semantic classes (e.g. male and UK, female and Ireland). A new metric, Liebig's score, is proposed to quantify the performance of each matching behaviour, allowing us to diagnose the factor that most strongly limits matching performance.

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