cs.SDSep 18, 2026

GenTraceBench: A Benchmark for Tracing Audio Deepfakes Across Pre- and Post-training Stages

Authors: Li Wang, Kunyu Feng, Wan Lin, Dekun Chen, Qinke Ni, Xueyao Zhang, Lei Wang, Jie Shi, +2 more

Organizations: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China · Amphion Technology Co., Ltd., China

Abstract

Modern text-to-speech (TTS) systems are rarely deployed as unchanged pre-trained models. They are often adapted through supervised fine-tuning (SFT) or preference optimization such as DPO and GRPO. This raises a practical question for audio deepfake forensics: do fingerprints learned from a foundation generator remain valid after adaptation? We present GenTraceBench, a controlled benchmark spanning five TTS architectures, 16 pre-/post-training variants, and 49,728 utterances generated with fixed texts and speaker prompts. Under a train-on-foundation, test-on-adapted protocol, we evaluate binary detection, closed-set attribution, and open-set verification. DPO and GRPO generally preserve fingerprints, whereas some SFT and pre-training-data changes cause substantial drift; effect sizes vary across three forensic backbones. Repeated training runs confirm the largest W2V-BERT attribution drop, while a data-mixture control with comparable speech quality shows that composition change need not cause drift. In W2V-BERT verification, multi-shot enrollment reduces EER for the SFT condition from 44.4% to 11.0%, whereas the SingNet-only condition remains at or above 45% EER.

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