Towards Debugging Deep Neural Networks by Generating Speech Utterances

Anssi Kanervisto; Bilal Soomro; Trung Ngo Trong; Ville Hautam\"aki

arxiv: 1907.03164 · v1 · pith:OYBPFIERnew · submitted 2019-07-06 · 💻 cs.LG · eess.AS· stat.ML

Towards Debugging Deep Neural Networks by Generating Speech Utterances

Bilal Soomro , Anssi Kanervisto , Trung Ngo Trong , Ville Hautam\"aki This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.LG eess.ASstat.ML

keywords activation maximizationspeech classificationdeep neural networksWaveNet vocoderdebugging DNNsspeech command corpus

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The pith

Activation maximization paired with a natural speech prior generates class-specific utterances from speech DNNs.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper tests whether activation maximization, previously used on image classifiers, can be adapted to DNNs that classify spoken commands. Inputs are optimized to maximize class scores in a model trained on the speech command corpus, then converted to audio waveforms with a WaveNet vocoder. Objective metrics and crowd-sourced listening tests are used to check whether the resulting utterances are perceived as belonging to the target classes. The central finding is that the natural-speech prior makes the generated samples sufficiently intelligible for human analysis, thereby supplying one route to inspect what acoustic patterns the network has learned.

Core claim

When combined with the prior of natural speech, activation maximization can be used to generate examples of different classes from a trained speech-command DNN; these examples can be synthesized into audio with a WaveNet vocoder and subjected to both objective and human evaluation.

What carries the argument

Activation maximization performed on the input features of a speech-classification DNN, followed by WaveNet vocoder synthesis to produce audible waveforms.

If this is right

The generated utterances supply concrete acoustic examples of the patterns each class activates inside the network.
Misclassified real utterances can be compared against these synthetic prototypes to locate the source of errors.
Human judgments on the samples provide an external check on whether the model's internal representation aligns with perceptible speech properties.
The method can be repeated for any class or any trained speech model to build a library of interpretable examples.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

If the same procedure applied to a model trained on noisy or accented data produced unrecognizable samples, that would indicate the training distribution had limited the learned features.
The technique could be applied to speaker-verification networks to generate utterances that maximally activate a given speaker identity.
Systematic differences between samples produced by convolutional versus recurrent speech models might reveal architecture-specific inductive biases.

Load-bearing premise

The class label that human listeners assign to the synthesized audio truly reflects the features the DNN learned, rather than artifacts introduced by the optimization or the vocoder.

What would settle it

If listeners cannot identify the intended command class from the generated samples at rates reliably above chance, the claim that activation maximization reveals the model's learned features would not hold.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 1907.03164 by Anssi Kanervisto, Bilal Soomro, Trung Ngo Trong, Ville Hautam\"aki.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: The design of our neural networks. The flow of the information during training phase is represented by the grey arrow. The backpropagated information during the input maximization phase is illustrated by the dashed red line. The debugging phase, when we manipulate the code vector for specific pattern, is represented by the dotted orange line. until desired results or after enough iterations. After the pr… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Visualization of speech features of class label ”Off”, ”left” and ”two”. The left figure shows test speech features maximized using the classifier. The right figure shows test speech features maximized using the combined model of the decoder and speech classifier. where we can see the maximization worked for most the classes minus a few outliers. By visually inspecting the output features from the maximi… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Results of perceptual evaluations on quality of synthesized samples, ranging from one to five and averaged over ≈ 15 answers. The WaveNet synthesizing alone distorts the samples (green bars well below four). Using decoder produces higher quality samples then classifier alone overall, except for longer commands (”backward”, ”forward”). This indicates that decoder is able to generate higher quality samples… view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Results of maximizing 10, 000 random latent codes per class (rows) using the decoder setup. Columns represent classification score from a separate classifier, darker being higher score. A perfect generator would have solid black diagonal line. Most classes are maximized correctly with values on diagonal ranging from 0.12 to 0.92, with some outlier classes like ”up”, ”tree” and ”go” which get maximized t… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Influence of the maximization process with respect to the command labels (colored) in (a), and the speaker labels (colored) in (b). The visualization is obtained by applying tSNE on the latents. The misclassified cases are highlighted by red circle in (b). gests a strong correlation between the maximized pattern and relevant command information. The algorithm had performed both micro and macro adjustment … view at source ↗

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Deep neural networks (DNN) are able to successfully process and classify speech utterances. However, understanding the reason behind a classification by DNN is difficult. One such debugging method used with image classification DNNs is activation maximization, which generates example-images that are classified as one of the classes. In this work, we evaluate applicability of this method to speech utterance classifiers as the means to understanding what DNN "listens to". We trained a classifier using the speech command corpus and then use activation maximization to pull samples from the trained model. Then we synthesize audio from features using WaveNet vocoder for subjective analysis. We measure the quality of generated samples by objective measurements and crowd-sourced human evaluations. Results show that when combined with the prior of natural speech, activation maximization can be used to generate examples of different classes. Based on these results, activation maximization can be used to start opening up the DNN black-box in speech tasks.

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The paper transfers activation maximization to a speech command classifier and gets human-rated samples via WaveNet, but the evidence does not rule out vocoder artifacts driving the class signal.

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The core move is straightforward: take activation maximization from image work, apply it to a DNN trained on the speech commands corpus, optimize features for target classes, then run the results through a WaveNet vocoder to produce audio. They report objective scores plus crowd-sourced ratings that the outputs sound like the intended commands. That is the actual new piece—an empirical check that the technique produces intelligible speech examples rather than noise. The human evaluation is a reasonable addition for this kind of work and gives some external signal that the samples are not obviously broken. The setup stays within standard practice for the domain, with no obvious circularity or invented quantities. The citation pattern looks normal for an extension paper. The soft spot is the one flagged in the stress test. Optimization occurs in the feature space before vocoding, so any class-specific structure could arise from the interaction between the optimized latents and WaveNet’s training distribution or from the classifier picking up on vocoder artifacts when the waveform is re-fed. The abstract gives no sign of controls such as swapping in a different synthesizer, classifying the pre-vocoder features directly, or testing on a held-out vocoder. Without those, the claim that the method reveals what the DNN “listens to” rests on an untested assumption. The objective measurements are mentioned but not quantified here, so their weight is hard to judge. This is useful reading for people already working on audio interpretability who want a concrete example of the technique in speech. It is not a foundational result and would not change how most labs approach model inspection, but the gap is fixable with additional experiments rather than fatal. A serious editor should send it to review so the authors can address the artifact question and supply the missing quantitative details.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper claims that activation maximization can be applied to a DNN speech command classifier (trained on the speech command corpus) to generate class-specific feature representations; these are then synthesized into audio waveforms using a WaveNet vocoder that supplies a natural-speech prior. Objective measurements and crowd-sourced human evaluations are reported to show that the resulting utterances are perceived as belonging to the target classes, thereby providing a debugging/interpretability tool for speech DNNs.

Significance. If the generated samples truly reflect the DNN's learned speech features rather than vocoder-induced artifacts, the work would supply a concrete, human-evaluable method for opening the black box of speech classifiers, extending activation-maximization techniques from vision. The combination of objective metrics with crowd-sourced listening tests is a positive design choice for an empirical interpretability study.

major comments (2)

[Experimental section / results] Experimental section / results: No control experiments are described that isolate the DNN classifier's contribution from the WaveNet vocoder. The central claim (abstract and §4) that class membership of the synthesized samples demonstrates the DNN's learned features therefore rests on an untested assumption; repeating the pipeline with an alternative vocoder or classifying the pre-vocoder optimized features directly would be required to rule out artifact-driven classification.
[§4 (quantitative results)] §4 (quantitative results): The manuscript reports that objective measurements and crowd-sourced evaluations support the claim, yet provides no numerical values, confidence intervals, or statistical tests for the human ratings or objective scores. Without these data it is impossible to assess whether the evidence is sufficient to support the interpretability conclusion.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] Abstract: The phrase 'objective measurements' is used without naming the metrics (e.g., SNR, PESQ, or classification accuracy on synthesized audio); this should be stated explicitly.
[Methodology] Notation: The paper refers to 'the prior of natural speech' without a formal definition or reference to the precise WaveNet conditioning used; a short equation or diagram would improve clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our work. The comments highlight key areas for strengthening the experimental design and reporting. We address each major comment below and indicate the revisions we will make.

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Referee: [Experimental section / results] Experimental section / results: No control experiments are described that isolate the DNN classifier's contribution from the WaveNet vocoder. The central claim (abstract and §4) that class membership of the synthesized samples demonstrates the DNN's learned features therefore rests on an untested assumption; repeating the pipeline with an alternative vocoder or classifying the pre-vocoder optimized features directly would be required to rule out artifact-driven classification.

Authors: We acknowledge that the absence of explicit control experiments leaves the isolation of the DNN's contribution as an assumption. Activation maximization optimizes features directly with respect to the DNN's class activations, while WaveNet supplies only a fixed natural-speech prior for waveform synthesis. To address this rigorously, we will add in the revised manuscript: (i) direct DNN classification of the optimized features prior to vocoding, and (ii) a brief discussion of why an alternative vocoder was not feasible given the available resources. These additions will make the evidence for the DNN's role more explicit. revision: yes
Referee: [§4 (quantitative results)] §4 (quantitative results): The manuscript reports that objective measurements and crowd-sourced evaluations support the claim, yet provides no numerical values, confidence intervals, or statistical tests for the human ratings or objective scores. Without these data it is impossible to assess whether the evidence is sufficient to support the interpretability conclusion.

Authors: We agree that the quantitative results must be reported with full numerical detail. The submitted manuscript summarized the outcomes without including the specific values, intervals, or tests in the main text. In the revision we will expand §4 to report the exact objective metric scores, the mean human ratings with confidence intervals, and the results of the statistical tests performed on the crowd-sourced data. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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Empirical pipeline with external evaluations; no derivation reduces to inputs by construction

full rationale

The paper describes an empirical workflow: train a speech command classifier on an external corpus, apply the standard activation-maximization procedure to generate feature-space examples, synthesize waveforms via a pre-trained WaveNet vocoder, and evaluate the outputs with objective metrics plus crowd-sourced human listening tests. No equations, uniqueness theorems, or self-citations are invoked to derive the central claim; the claim that the generated samples reflect class-specific features rests on the external human judgments rather than on any fitted parameter or self-referential definition. Because the load-bearing evidence is external to the paper's own fitted values and no step equates a prediction to its own input by construction, the analysis contains no circularity.

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No free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are identifiable from the abstract; the work relies on standard ML optimization and an off-the-shelf vocoder.

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