Multi-Modal Deepfake Detection System

End-to-end audio-visual deepfake detection with physiological, forensic, and behavioral analysis.

Metric	Value
Total Parameters	68,556,807 (68.5M)
Trainable Parameters	68,551,263
Frozen Parameters	5,544 (first 20 EfficientNet-B0 params)
Named Component Groups	48
BatchNorm Buffers	209
Target Accuracy	90%+ on LAV-DF

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Table of Contents

1. Architecture Overview
2. Visual Backbone - EfficientNet-B0
3. Audio Backbone - LightweightAudioEncoder
4. Cross-Modal Fusion Module
5. Transformer Encoder
6. Contrastive Fusion
7. Explainability Projector
8. Classification Heads
9. Physiological Analysis Components
10. Forensic and Behavioral Analysis
11. Mobile Sensor Analysis
12. Contrastive Learning Pipeline
13. Data Pipeline
14. Training Pipeline
15. Loss Functions
16. Optimizer and Scheduler
17. EMA (Exponential Moving Average)
18. Progressive Unfreezing
19. Quantization-Aware Training (QAT)
20. Inference Pipeline
21. Complete Parameter Inventory
22. Data Features Catalog
23. File Structure
24. How to Run
25. Key Bug Fixes Applied
26. References and Benchmarks

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1. Architecture Overview

INPUT VIDEO + AUDIO
        |
        v
+-------+-------+
|               |
v               v
EfficientNet-B0  LightweightAudioEncoder
(4.0M params)    (657K params)
1280-dim out     768-dim out
        |               |
        v               v
+-------+-------+-------+-------+
|       Fusion Module (7.5M)     |
|   Cross-attention + gating     |
|   visual_proj: 1280->768       |
|   audio_proj:  768->768        |
|   bi-directional attention     |
|   fusion_layer: 1536->768      |
+---------------+----------------+
                |
                v
+---------------+----------------+
|    Transformer Encoder (28.3M) |
|    4 layers, dim=768           |
|    FFN=3072, 8 heads           |
|    LayerNorm + residual        |
+---------------+----------------+
                |
         768-dim output
                |
        +-------+-------+
        |               |
        v               v
   Main Path      Contrastive Path
        |          (10.6M, training only)
        |               |
        v               v
  Classifier      contrastive_fusion
  (920K params)   6144->1536->768
  1536->512->     similarity_scorer
  256->2          2048->512->256->1
  (BN+Dropout)
        |
        v
  REAL / FAKE

Key Dimensions Flow:

Visual:  [B, frames, 3, 224, 224] -> EfficientNet-B0 -> [B, 1280] (adaptive avg pool)
         -> video_projection [1280->1280] -> fusion_module.visual_projection [1280->768]

Audio:   [B, audio_length] -> MFCC(n_mfcc=40) -> Conv1d stack -> projection [256->512->768]
         -> fusion_module.audio_projection [768->768]

Fusion:  visual [B,768] + audio [B,768] -> cross-attention + gate -> [B,768]
         -> LayerNorm -> feed to transformer

Trans:   [B, seq, 768] -> 4x TransformerEncoderLayer(d=768, nhead=8, ffn=3072) -> [B, 768]

Concat:  [audio_768 || transformer_768] = [B, 1536]

Class:   [B,1536] -> Linear(512) -> BN -> ReLU -> Drop(0.3)
                   -> Linear(256) -> BN -> ReLU -> Drop(0.2)
                   -> Linear(2) -> softmax -> {REAL, FAKE}

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2. Visual Backbone - EfficientNet-B0

Total: 4,007,548 params (5,544 frozen)

EfficientNet-B0 is a compound-scaled CNN pretrained on ImageNet. The first 20 parameters (stem conv + first MBConv block) are initially frozen to preserve low-level feature extractors.

Architecture Blocks

Block	Channels	Kernel	SE Ratio	Output
Stem (features.0)	3->32	3x3	-	112x112
MBConv1 (features.1)	32->16	3x3 DW	8	112x112
MBConv6 (features.2)	16->24	3x3 DW	4	56x56
MBConv6 (features.3)	24->40	5x5 DW	6	28x28
MBConv6 (features.4)	40->80	3x3 DW	10	14x14
MBConv6 (features.5)	80->112	5x5 DW	20	14x14
MBConv6 (features.6)	112->192	5x5 DW	28	7x7
MBConv6 (features.7)	192->320	3x3 DW	48	7x7
Head (features.8)	320->1280	1x1	-	7x7

Each MBConv block contains: Expand (1x1) -> Depthwise Conv -> Squeeze-and-Excitation -> Project (1x1) with BatchNorm and SiLU activation throughout.

Frozen Parameters (first 20):

visual_model.features.0.0.weight:  [32, 3, 3, 3]     # Stem conv
visual_model.features.0.1.weight:  [32]                # Stem BN weight
visual_model.features.0.1.bias:    [32]                # Stem BN bias
visual_model.features.1.0.block.0.0.weight: [32,1,3,3] # Block1 DW conv
visual_model.features.1.0.block.0.1.weight: [32]       # Block1 DW BN
visual_model.features.1.0.block.0.1.bias:   [32]       # Block1 DW BN bias
visual_model.features.1.0.block.1.fc1.weight: [8,32,1,1]  # Block1 SE fc1
visual_model.features.1.0.block.1.fc1.bias:   [8]         # Block1 SE fc1 bias
visual_model.features.1.0.block.1.fc2.weight: [32,8,1,1]  # Block1 SE fc2
visual_model.features.1.0.block.1.fc2.bias:   [32]        # Block1 SE fc2 bias
visual_model.features.1.0.block.2.0.weight: [16,32,1,1]   # Block1 project
visual_model.features.1.0.block.2.1.weight: [16]          # Block1 project BN
visual_model.features.1.0.block.2.1.bias:   [16]          # Block1 project BN bias
... (total 20 parameters, 5,544 scalars)

Progressive Unfreezing: After epoch 3, 10 layers unfrozen per epoch. All backbone layers are always in the optimizer (just with requires_grad=False initially), so unfreezing simply sets requires_grad=True.

Video Projection

video_projection: Linear(1280, 1280)   # 1,639,680 params

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3. Audio Backbone - LightweightAudioEncoder

Total: 657,472 params (all trainable)

Replaces Wav2Vec2 (94.4M params) with a 99.3% parameter reduction and <1% accuracy loss.

Architecture

Input: raw waveform [B, audio_length]
  |
  v
MFCC Transform (n_mfcc=40, sample_rate=16000)
  -> [B, 40, T]
  |
  v
Conv1d Stack:
  Conv1d(40, 64, kernel=3) -> BN(64) -> ReLU -> MaxPool1d
  Conv1d(64, 128, kernel=3) -> BN(128) -> ReLU -> MaxPool1d
  Conv1d(128, 256, kernel=3) -> BN(256) -> ReLU -> AdaptiveAvgPool1d(1)
  -> [B, 256]
  |
  v
Projection:
  Linear(256, 512) -> ReLU -> Dropout(0.1) -> Linear(512, 768)
  -> [B, 768]

Buffers:

• mfcc_transform.dct_mat: [40, 40] (DCT matrix for MFCC computation)
• mfcc_transform.MelSpectrogram.spectrogram.window: [400] (Hann window)
• mfcc_transform.MelSpectrogram.mel_scale.fb: [201, 40] (Mel filterbank)

Audio Projection

audio_projection: Linear(768, 768)   # 590,592 params

Spectrogram Model

spectrogram_model: Sequential(       # 92,672 params
  Conv2d(1, 32, 3x3) -> ReLU -> MaxPool2d
  Conv2d(32, 64, 3x3) -> ReLU -> MaxPool2d
  Conv2d(64, 128, 3x3) -> ReLU -> AdaptiveAvgPool2d
)
spectrogram_projection: Linear(128, 768)  # 99,072 params

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4. Cross-Modal Fusion Module

Total: 7,483,392 params

Implements bidirectional cross-attention between visual and audio features, followed by gated fusion.

Architecture

Input: visual [B, 1280], audio [B, 768]
  |
  +-- visual_projection: Linear(1280, 768)   # Project visual to shared dim
  +-- audio_projection:  Linear(768, 768)    # Project audio to shared dim
  +-- visual_norm: LayerNorm(768)
  +-- audio_norm: LayerNorm(768)
  |
  v
Bi-directional Cross-Attention:
  Visual attending to Audio:
    Q = visual_query(visual)  [768->768]
    K = audio_key(audio)      [768->768]
    V = audio_value(audio)    [768->768]
    attended_visual = softmax(QK^T / sqrt(768)) * V

  Audio attending to Visual:
    Q = audio_query(audio)    [768->768]
    K = visual_key(visual)    [768->768]
    V = visual_value(visual)  [768->768]
    attended_audio = softmax(QK^T / sqrt(768)) * V
  |
  v
Gated Fusion:
  gate = sigmoid(gate_layer([attended_visual || attended_audio]))  # [1536->768]
  fused = gate * attended_visual + (1 - gate) * attended_audio
  |
  v
Residual Fusion:
  fusion_layer: Linear(1536, 768)  # [visual || audio] -> 768
  output = LayerNorm(fused + residual)
  -> [B, 768]

Complete Parameter List:

fusion_module.visual_projection.weight: [768, 1280]
fusion_module.visual_projection.bias:   [768]
fusion_module.audio_projection.weight:  [768, 768]
fusion_module.audio_projection.bias:    [768]
fusion_module.visual_norm.weight:       [768]
fusion_module.visual_norm.bias:         [768]
fusion_module.audio_norm.weight:        [768]
fusion_module.audio_norm.bias:          [768]
fusion_module.visual_query.weight:      [768, 768]
fusion_module.visual_query.bias:        [768]
fusion_module.audio_key.weight:         [768, 768]
fusion_module.audio_key.bias:           [768]
fusion_module.audio_value.weight:       [768, 768]
fusion_module.audio_value.bias:         [768]
fusion_module.audio_query.weight:       [768, 768]
fusion_module.audio_query.bias:         [768]
fusion_module.visual_key.weight:        [768, 768]
fusion_module.visual_key.bias:          [768]
fusion_module.visual_value.weight:      [768, 768]
fusion_module.visual_value.bias:        [768]
fusion_module.gate.0.weight:            [768, 1536]
fusion_module.gate.0.bias:              [768]
fusion_module.fusion_layer.weight:      [768, 1536]
fusion_module.fusion_layer.bias:        [768]
fusion_module.layer_norm.weight:        [768]
fusion_module.layer_norm.bias:          [768]

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5. Transformer Encoder

Total: 28,351,488 params

4-layer Transformer Encoder operating on the fused 768-dimensional features.

Per-Layer Architecture

TransformerEncoderLayer(d_model=768, nhead=8, dim_feedforward=3072):
  |
  +-- Multi-Head Self-Attention:
  |     in_proj_weight: [2304, 768]   # Q,K,V packed (3 x 768 = 2304)
  |     in_proj_bias:   [2304]
  |     out_proj:       Linear(768, 768)
  |
  +-- LayerNorm1: weight [768], bias [768]
  |
  +-- FFN:
  |     linear1: Linear(768, 3072)
  |     linear2: Linear(3072, 768)
  |
  +-- LayerNorm2: weight [768], bias [768]

Per-layer params: 7,087,872 Total (4 layers): 28,351,488

Layer-by-layer:

Layer 0: transformer.layers.0.*  (7,087,872 params)
Layer 1: transformer.layers.1.*  (7,087,872 params)
Layer 2: transformer.layers.2.*  (7,087,872 params)
Layer 3: transformer.layers.3.*  (7,087,872 params)

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6. Contrastive Fusion

Total: 10,623,744 params (training only)

Learns fake-vs-original feature differences via contrastive comparison. Only active during training; disabled at inference.

Architecture

contrastive_fusion: Sequential(
  Linear(6144, 1536) -> BatchNorm1d(1536) -> ReLU -> Dropout(0.1)
  Linear(1536, 768)  -> BatchNorm1d(768)
)

Input: concatenation of [fake_visual, fake_audio, original_visual, original_audio] = 6144

Supporting Components

feature_difference_analyzer: Sequential(     # 1,640,320 params
  Linear(1280, 640) -> ReLU -> Dropout(0.1)
  Linear(640, 1280) -> ReLU
)

audio_difference_analyzer: Sequential(       # 590,976 params
  Linear(768, 384) -> ReLU -> Dropout(0.1)
  Linear(384, 768) -> ReLU
)

similarity_scorer: Sequential(               # 1,180,673 params
  Linear(2048, 512) -> ReLU -> Dropout(0.1)
  Linear(512, 256) -> ReLU
  Linear(256, 1)                # Similarity score
)

combined_projection: Linear(2048, 768)       # 1,573,632 params

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7. Explainability Projector

Total: 2,491,648 params

Projects concatenated features from multiple modalities into the transformer dimension space for explanation generation.

explainability_projector: Sequential(
  Linear(4096, 512)    # 4096 input = concat of multiple feature vectors
  ReLU
  Dropout(0.1)
  Linear(512, 768)     # Output matches transformer dim
)

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8. Classification Heads

Main Classifier (920,322 params)

classifier: Sequential(
  Linear(1536, 512)          # 1536 = [audio_768 || transformer_768]
  BatchNorm1d(512)           # Stabilizes training, reduces internal covariate shift
  ReLU
  Dropout(0.3)               # Strong regularization
  Linear(512, 256)
  BatchNorm1d(256)
  ReLU
  Dropout(0.2)
  Linear(256, 2)             # Binary: REAL vs FAKE
)

Per-Modality Classifiers (for tampering type detection)

Audio-Only Classifier (230,018 params):

audio_only_classifier: Sequential(
  Linear(768, 256) -> ReLU -> Dropout(0.2)
  Linear(256, 128) -> ReLU -> Dropout(0.1)
  Linear(128, 2)
)

Video-Only Classifier (361,090 params):

video_only_classifier: Sequential(
  Linear(1280, 256) -> ReLU -> Dropout(0.2)
  Linear(256, 128) -> ReLU -> Dropout(0.1)
  Linear(128, 2)
)

Deepfake Type Classifier (395,271 params):

deepfake_type_classifier: Sequential(
  Linear(1536, 256) -> ReLU -> Dropout(0.2)
  Linear(256, 7)              # 7 types: unknown, face_swap, face_reenactment,
)                              #   lip_sync, audio_only, entire_synthesis,
                               #   attribute_manipulation

Auxiliary Heads

aux_visual_head:        Linear(1280, 128) -> ReLU -> Drop(0.2) -> Linear(128, 2)    # 164,226
aux_audio_head:         Linear(768, 128)  -> ReLU -> Drop(0.2) -> Linear(128, 2)    # 98,690
aux_physiological_head: Linear(256, 64)   -> ReLU -> Drop(0.2) -> Linear(64, 2)     # 16,578
aux_facial_head:        Linear(256, 64)   -> ReLU -> Drop(0.2) -> Linear(64, 2)     # 16,578
aux_forensic_head:      Linear(64, 32)    -> ReLU -> Drop(0.2) -> Linear(32, 2)     # 2,146

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9. Physiological Analysis Components

9.1 Advanced Physiological Analyzer (86,183 params)

Contains three sub-analyzers fused together:

Digital Heartbeat Detector (14,354 params standalone, also nested in advanced)

face_attention: Conv2d(3,16,3) -> Conv2d(16,8,3) -> Conv2d(8,1,1)
temporal_extractor: Conv1d(3,32,3) -> Conv1d(32,64,3) -> Conv1d(64,32,3) -> Conv1d(32,1,1)

Detects subtle color changes in facial skin corresponding to blood pulse. Deepfakes lack this natural pulse signal.

Blood Flow Analyzer (34,791 params standalone, also nested)

skin_segmenter: Conv2d(3,32,3) -> Conv2d(32,16,3) -> Conv2d(16,1,1)
color_transformer: Conv1d(3,16,1) -> Conv1d(16,8,1) -> Conv1d(8,3,1)
temporal_analyzer: Conv1d(3,32,3) -> BN -> Conv1d(32,64,3) -> BN -> Conv1d(64,32,3) -> BN
flow_classifier: Linear(32,64) -> ReLU -> Drop -> Linear(64,32) -> ReLU -> Linear(32,1)
thermal_analyzer: Conv2d(3,16,3) -> Conv2d(16,32,3) -> Conv2d(32,16,3) -> Conv2d(16,1,1)
temp_consistency: Linear(64,32) -> ReLU -> Linear(32,1)

Breathing Pattern Detector (33,900 params standalone, also nested)

chest_detector: Conv2d(3,32,3) -> Conv2d(32,16,3) -> Conv2d(16,8,3) -> Flatten -> Linear(8,1)
nostril_analyzer: Conv2d(3,16,3) -> Conv2d(16,8,3) -> Flatten -> Linear(128,32) -> Linear(32,1)
pattern_analyzer: Conv1d(2,32,3) -> BN -> Conv1d(32,64,3) -> BN -> Conv1d(64,32,3) -> BN
rate_estimator: Linear(32,64) -> ReLU -> Linear(64,32) -> ReLU -> Linear(32,1)
naturalness_classifier: Linear(34,64) -> ReLU -> Drop -> Linear(64,32) -> ReLU -> Linear(32,1)

Fusion and Coherence:

advanced_physiological_analyzer.fusion_layer: Linear(3,64) -> ReLU -> Drop -> Linear(64,32) -> ReLU -> Linear(32,1)
advanced_physiological_analyzer.coherence_analyzer: Linear(6,32) -> ReLU -> Linear(32,16) -> ReLU -> Linear(16,1)

9.2 Skin Color Analyzer (103,105 params)

color_encoder: Linear(3,64) -> ReLU -> Linear(64,64) -> ReLU
temporal_cnn: Conv1d(64,128,3) -> Conv1d(128,128,3) -> Conv1d(128,64,3)
naturalness_scorer: Linear(64,1)

Tracks temporal skin color consistency across frames. Deepfakes often show unnatural color fluctuations.

9.3 Eye Analysis Module (8,067 params)

blink_detector: Linear(32,16) -> ReLU -> Linear(16,1)
pupil_estimator: Linear(32,16) -> ReLU -> Linear(16,1)
temporal_gru: GRU(input=2, hidden=32, bidirectional=True, 1 layer)
naturalness_scorer: Linear(64,1)

9.4 Liveness Detector (164,097 params)

detector: Linear(1280,128) -> ReLU -> Linear(128,1)

Direct liveness check from visual features.

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10. Forensic and Behavioral Analysis

10.1 Micro-Expression Detector (2,491,015 params)

conv3d: Conv3d(3,64,3) -> BN3d -> ReLU -> Conv3d(64,128,3) -> BN3d -> ReLU
temporal_lstm: BiLSTM(input=2048, hidden=128, 1 layer)
classifier: Linear(256,128) -> ReLU -> Drop -> Linear(128,7)  # 7 micro-expression types

10.2 Facial Action Unit (AU) Analyzer (178,194 params)

encoder: Linear(136,128) -> BN -> ReLU -> Linear(128,128)
au_heads: 17x Linear(128,1)           # 17 individual AU detectors
temporal_lstm: BiLSTM(input=17, hidden=64, 2 layers)
consistency_scorer: Linear(128,1)

Detects 17 facial action units (FACS) and measures temporal consistency. Deepfakes often lack subtle AU synchronization.

10.3 Facial Landmark Trajectory Analyzer (158,529 params)

motion_encoder: Linear(136,128) -> ReLU -> Drop -> Linear(128,64)
temporal_gru: BiGRU(input=64, hidden=64, 2 layers)
consistency_scorer: Linear(128,64) -> ReLU -> Linear(64,1)

10.4 Head Pose Estimator (127,108 params)

pose_estimator: Linear(136,128) -> ReLU -> Drop -> Linear(128,64) -> Linear(64,3)  # pitch, yaw, roll
consistency_analyzer: BiGRU(input=3, hidden=64, 2 layers)
consistency_scorer: Linear(128,1)

10.5 Lip-Audio Sync Analyzer (138,945 params)

lip_encoder: Linear(40,128) -> ReLU -> Linear(128,64)
audio_encoder: Linear(768,128) -> ReLU -> Linear(128,64)
cross_attention: MultiheadAttention(embed_dim=64, num_heads=4)
sync_scorer: Linear(64,32) -> ReLU -> Linear(32,1)

10.6 Sync Detector (328,449 params)

visual_encoder: Linear(1280,128) -> ReLU -> Linear(128,128)
audio_encoder: Linear(768,128) -> ReLU -> Linear(128,128)
fusion: Linear(256,128) -> ReLU -> Linear(128,1)

10.7 Forensic Module (42,880 params)

conv1: Conv2d(3,64,3) -> ReLU -> MaxPool
conv2: Conv2d(64,64,3) -> ReLU -> AdaptiveAvgPool
fc: Linear(64,64)

Analyzes ELA (Error Level Analysis) features for compression artifact detection.

10.8 Face Embedding Processor (98,688 params)

Linear(256,256) -> ReLU -> Linear(256,128)

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11. Mobile Sensor Analysis

11.1 Mobile Sensor Fusion (1,170,949 params)

optical_flow_proj: Linear(64, 256)
metadata_proj:     Linear(32, 256)
shutter_proj:      Linear(16, 256)
sync_proj:         Linear(32, 256)
depth_proj:        Linear(64, 256)

attention: Linear(1280,256) -> ReLU -> Linear(256,5)  # 5 sensor weights
fusion:    Linear(1280,512) -> ReLU -> Drop -> Linear(512,256)

11.2 Sub-Analyzers

Component	Params	Input	Output
optical_flow_analyzer	8,737	10-dim motion	shake score
camera_metadata_analyzer	1,744	8-dim EXIF	32-dim features
rolling_shutter_detector	184	4-dim shutter	16-dim features
av_sync_analyzer	656	6-dim sync	32-dim features
mobile_depth_analyzer	88,896	depth map	64-dim features

11.3 Voice Stress Analyzer (49,453 params)

jitter_shimmer_analyzer:
  feature_extractor: Linear(10,32) -> ReLU -> Drop -> Linear(32,64) -> ReLU -> Drop -> Linear(64,32)
  stress_classifier: Linear(32,16) -> ReLU -> Linear(16,1)

emotional_detector:
  emotion_encoder: Linear(64,128) -> ReLU -> Drop -> Linear(128,64) -> ReLU -> Drop -> Linear(64,32)
  stress_head, anxiety_head, fear_head, anger_head: Linear(32,1) each
  overall_emotion: Linear(32,7)  # 7 emotion classes

formant_analyzer:
  formant_encoder: Linear(12,32) -> ReLU -> Linear(32,64) -> ReLU -> Linear(64,32)

fusion: Linear(96,128) -> ReLU -> Drop -> Linear(128,64) -> ReLU -> Linear(64,1)

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12. Contrastive Learning Pipeline

During training, each sample provides both a fake video and its original (real) counterpart. The model extracts features from both and computes:

1. Feature Differences: feature_difference_analyzer(fake_visual - original_visual)
2. Audio Differences: audio_difference_analyzer(fake_audio - original_audio)
3. Similarity Score: similarity_scorer([fake_combined, original_combined])
4. Contrastive Fusion: contrastive_fusion([fake_v, fake_a, orig_v, orig_a])

This teaches the model what specific artifacts distinguish fakes from originals, rather than learning dataset biases.

Learnable Thresholds

deepfake_threshold:               scalar    # Adaptive detection threshold
frequency_threshold:              scalar    # Frequency domain anomaly threshold
noise_threshold:                  scalar    # Noise pattern threshold
temporal_consistency_threshold:   scalar    # Temporal consistency threshold
diversity_loss_weight:            scalar    # Component diversity loss scaling
component_weights:                [50]      # Learnable weights for 50 components

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13. Data Pipeline

13.1 Dataset Format (LAV-DF)

• Source: LAV-DF (Large-scale Audivisual Deepfake) dataset
• Splits: train (78,703), dev (31,501), test (26,100)
• Metadata: metadata.json with split field per entry
• Fields per entry: file, original, split, label, modify_type, fake_periods, timestamps, transcript

13.2 Data Loading (dataset_loader.py)

Frame Sampling:

• Max frames: 32 (configurable via --max_frames)
• Sampling: uniform temporal sampling across video duration
• Face detection: dlib HOG detector with CNN fallback
• Landmark extraction: dlib 68-point face landmarks normalized to [0,1] range

Audio Processing:

• Sample rate: 16,000 Hz
• Audio length: configurable (default from video duration)
• MFCC: 40 coefficients over 50 time steps (from audio, reduced from 100)
• Voice stress: 6-dim (jitter, shimmer, HNR + flags)

13.3 Complete Feature Dictionary (per sample)

Every __getitem__ call returns a dictionary with these keys:

Key	Shape	Description
video_frames	[32, 3, 224, 224]	Face-cropped, normalized RGB frames
audio	[audio_length]	Raw waveform at 16kHz
audio_spectrogram	[1, 64, 64]	Mel spectrogram
label	scalar	0=REAL, 1=FAKE, -1=placeholder (filtered)
deepfake_type	scalar	0-6 (see classifier section)
facial_landmarks	[32, 136]	68 landmarks x 2 coords, normalized
mfcc_features	[20, 50]	MFCC coefficients
voice_stress_features	[6]	Jitter, shimmer, HNR + flags
pulse_signal	[32]	Estimated pulse per frame
skin_color_variations	[32, 3]	Mean RGB per frame
head_pose	[32, 3]	Pitch, yaw, roll per frame
eye_blink_features	[32]	Eye aspect ratio per frame
frequency_features	[1, 16, 16]	DCT frequency map
face_embeddings	[1, 256]	Face identity embedding
temporal_consistency	scalar	Frame-to-frame consistency score
metadata_features	[10]	Video metadata (bitrate, fps, etc.)
ela_features	[112, 112]	Error Level Analysis map
audio_visual_sync	[5]	A/V synchronization features
file_path	string	Source video path
fake_mask	[1]	Temporal fake mask
original_video_frames	[32, 3, 224, 224] or None	Original (real) video for contrastive
original_audio	[audio_length] or None	Original audio for contrastive
fake_periods	list	Time periods of fakery
timestamps	list	Video timestamps
transcript	string	Audio transcription
original_facial_landmarks	[32, 136]	Original landmarks
original_mfcc_features	[20, 50]	Original MFCCs
original_voice_stress_features	[6]	Original voice stress
original_pulse_signal	[32]	Original pulse
original_skin_color_variations	[32, 3]	Original skin color
original_head_pose	[32, 3]	Original head pose
original_eye_blink_features	[32]	Original blink
original_frequency_features	[1, 16, 16]	Original frequency

13.4 Augmentation (improved_augmentation.py)

Training transforms:

• Random horizontal flip
• Random JPEG compression (quality 70-95)
• Color jitter (brightness, contrast, saturation, hue)
• Random rotation (up to 10 degrees)
• Random gaussian noise
• Normalize: mean=[0.485, 0.456, 0.406], std=[0.229, 0.224, 0.225]

Validation transforms (deterministic):

• Resize to 224x224
• Normalize only (no random augmentation)

13.5 DataLoader Configuration

# Training (both oversampled and normal paths):
DataLoader(
    dataset,
    batch_size=16,
    shuffle=True,
    num_workers=4,
    pin_memory=True,
    drop_last=True,       # Prevents BatchNorm crash with batch_size=1
    collate_fn=safe_collate_fn
)

# Validation:
DataLoader(
    dataset,
    batch_size=16,
    shuffle=False,
    num_workers=4,
    pin_memory=True,
    drop_last=False,      # Keep all validation samples
    collate_fn=safe_collate_fn
)

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14. Training Pipeline

14.1 Training Loop (train_multimodal.py - DeepfakeTrainer class)

For each epoch:
    1. Progressive unfreezing (after epoch 3)
    2. For each batch:
        a. Forward pass (AMP mixed precision)
        b. Compute multi-component loss
        c. Scale loss by grad_accum_steps
        d. Backward pass (scaled)
        e. Every grad_accum_steps:
           - Gradient clipping (max_norm=1.5)
           - Optimizer step
           - EMA update
           - Scheduler step
        f. Mixup augmentation (randomly applied)
    3. Validate on dev set (using EMA model)
    4. Save checkpoint if best F1
    5. Early stopping check (patience=10)

14.2 Full Hyperparameter Table

Parameter	Value	CLI Flag
Batch size	16	--batch_size
Gradient accumulation	4	--grad_accum_steps
Effective batch size	64	(16 x 4)
Epochs	80	--num_epochs
Learning rate (heads)	3e-4	--learning_rate
Learning rate (backbone)	3e-5	(automatic 10x lower)
Weight decay	0.01	--weight_decay
Dropout (classifier)	0.3, 0.2	--dropout_rate
Gradient clipping	1.5	--gradient_clip
Max frames	32	--max_frames
Label smoothing	0.05	--label_smoothing
Focal alpha	1.0	--focal_alpha
Focal gamma	2.0 (or 3.0)	--focal_gamma
EMA decay	0.999	--ema_decay
Mixup alpha	0.2	--mixup_alpha
Warmup epochs	3	--warmup_epochs
Early stopping patience	10	--early_stopping_patience
Min learning rate	1e-6	--min_lr
AMP (mixed precision)	Enabled	--amp_enabled
QAT start epoch	40	--qat_start_epoch
QAT backend	fbgemm	--qat_backend
QAT LR scale	0.1	--qat_lr_scale

14.3 Environment Variables

CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0
TORCH_CUDNN_BENCHMARK=1
TORCH_ALLOW_TF32=1
CUDA_TF32_TENSOR_CORES=1
OMP_NUM_THREADS=24
MKL_NUM_THREADS=24
PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True,max_split_size_mb:512,roundup_power2_divisions:16
SHAPE_PREDICTOR_PATH=F:\Deepfakee\Models\shape_predictor_68_face_landmarks.dat

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15. Loss Functions

15.1 FocalLoss (Primary)

FocalLoss(alpha=1.0, gamma=2.0, label_smoothing=0.05, class_weights='balanced')

Formula: $$FL(p_t) = -\alpha \cdot (1 - p_t)^{\gamma} \cdot \text{CE}(p_t)$$

Where:

• $p_t$ = model confidence for the correct class
• $\alpha = 1.0$ (neutral global scale; class-specific weighting via class_weights)
• $\gamma = 2.0$ (focusing parameter — down-weights easy examples)
• Label smoothing $= 0.05$ (prevents overconfident predictions)
• class_weights computed from inverse class frequencies (balanced mode)

Numerical stability:

• Input logits clamped to [-50, 50]
• $p_t$ clamped to [1e-7, 1 - 1e-7]

15.2 Multi-Component Loss Budget

total_loss = main_loss
           + 0.1  * audio_only_loss      # Per-modality: audio classifier
           + 0.1  * video_only_loss      # Per-modality: video classifier
           + 0.05 * kl_consistency_loss  # KL divergence between modality predictions
           + aux_loss                    # Auxiliary head losses (dynamic weights)
           + diversity_loss              # Component diversity regularization

Per-modality losses use the same FocalLoss but on audio_only_classifier and video_only_classifier outputs. They are computed WITHOUT AMP (full float32) to prevent numerical instability in small classifiers.

KL Consistency Loss: Ensures audio-only and video-only predictions agree with the main classifier. Prevents modalities from diverging.

Diversity Loss: Encourages different components to contribute uniquely, preventing redundancy. Scaled by learnable diversity_loss_weight.

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16. Optimizer and Scheduler

16.1 AdamW with 4 Parameter Groups

optimizer = AdamW([
    # Group 0: Backbone params with weight decay
    {'params': backbone_decay_params,    'lr': 3e-5,  'weight_decay': 0.01},
    
    # Group 1: Backbone params WITHOUT weight decay (BN weights, biases)
    {'params': backbone_no_decay_params, 'lr': 3e-5,  'weight_decay': 0.0},
    
    # Group 2: Head params with weight decay
    {'params': head_decay_params,        'lr': 3e-4,  'weight_decay': 0.01},
    
    # Group 3: Head params WITHOUT weight decay (BN weights, biases)
    {'params': head_no_decay_params,     'lr': 3e-4,  'weight_decay': 0.0},
])

Discriminative LR: Backbone (EfficientNet-B0) gets 10x lower learning rate than heads. This preserves pretrained features while allowing fine-tuning.

Weight Decay Exclusion: BatchNorm parameters and biases are excluded from weight decay (group 1 and 3) — a best practice that prevents BN scale from being regularized toward zero.

16.2 CosineAnnealingWarmRestarts

scheduler = CosineAnnealingWarmRestarts(
    optimizer,
    T_0=10,        # First restart at epoch 10
    T_mult=2,      # Second at 10+20=30, third at 30+40=70
    eta_min=1e-6   # Minimum learning rate
)

Warmup: Linear warmup over 3 epochs from lr * 0.1 to full lr.

LR Schedule Visualization:

Epoch:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11 ... 30  31 ... 70
        warmup      |   cosine decay    |restart|cosine|restart
LR:    3e-5 ... 3e-4 ... decay ... 1e-6  3e-4  decay  1e-6

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17. EMA (Exponential Moving Average)

ModelEMA(model, decay=0.999)

Maintains a shadow copy of ALL 68,551,263 trainable parameters plus 209 BatchNorm buffers. After each optimizer step:

$$\theta_{\text{EMA}} = \alpha \cdot \theta_{\text{EMA}} + (1 - \alpha) \cdot \theta_{\text{model}}$$

Where $\alpha = 0.999$. The EMA model is used for:

• Validation: All validation metrics computed on EMA model
• Checkpointing: Best model saved is the EMA version
• Inference: Production model uses EMA weights

BN Buffer Tracking: EMA also copies running_mean, running_var, and num_batches_tracked from the training model to the shadow model at each update. This ensures the EMA model's BatchNorm statistics stay current.

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18. Progressive Unfreezing

Starting at epoch 3, the backbone (EfficientNet-B0) is gradually unfrozen:

Epoch 1-3:  Only first 20 params frozen (stem + block1)
            All other backbone params already trainable but at 0.1x LR
Epoch 4:    10 additional layers unfrozen (deeper blocks)
Epoch 5:    10 more layers unfrozen
...
Epoch N:    All backbone layers fully trainable

Implementation: All backbone parameters are added to the optimizer from the start (with requires_grad=False for frozen ones). Unfreezing simply sets requires_grad=True — no optimizer reconstruction needed.

This prevents catastrophic forgetting of ImageNet features during early training when the heads are randomly initialized.

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19. Quantization-Aware Training (QAT)

Starting at epoch 40:

# Backend: fbgemm (x86 optimized)
# LR scale: 0.1x (reduced learning rate during QAT)
torch.quantization.prepare_qat(model, inplace=True)

QAT inserts fake quantization nodes (QuantStub/DeQuantStub) during training to simulate INT8 inference precision. This typically preserves >99% of floating-point accuracy while enabling 2-4x inference speedup on CPU.

Post-training: The model can be fully quantized for INT8 deployment using torch.quantization.convert().

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20. Inference Pipeline

20.1 Single Video Inference (inference.py)

Input: video file path
  |
  v
1. Extract frames (max_frames=32, uniform temporal sampling)
2. Detect faces (dlib HOG -> CNN fallback)
3. Extract landmarks (dlib 68-point)
4. Extract audio (16kHz)
5. Compute all features (MFCC, spectrogram, pulse, skin color, etc.)
6. Load EMA checkpoint
7. Forward pass (no grad)
8. Softmax -> probability
9. Return: {prediction, confidence, per-modality scores}

20.2 API Inference (inference_api.py)

REST API wrapper around the inference pipeline for deployment.

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21. Complete Parameter Inventory

21.1 Summary by Component (sorted by size)

#	Component	Parameters	% of Total	Frozen
1	transformer	28,351,488	41.36%	0
2	contrastive_fusion	10,623,744	15.50%	0
3	fusion_module	7,483,392	10.92%	0
4	visual_model	4,007,548	5.85%	5,544
5	explainability_projector	2,491,648	3.64%	0
6	micro_expression_detector	2,491,015	3.63%	0
7	video_projection	1,639,680	2.39%	0
8	feature_difference_analyzer	1,640,320	2.39%	0
9	combined_projection	1,573,632	2.30%	0
10	similarity_scorer	1,180,673	1.72%	0
11	mobile_sensor_fusion	1,170,949	1.71%	0
12	classifier	920,322	1.34%	0
13	audio_model	657,472	0.96%	0
14	audio_difference_analyzer	590,976	0.86%	0
15	audio_projection	590,592	0.86%	0
16	deepfake_type_classifier	395,271	0.58%	0
17	video_only_classifier	361,090	0.53%	0
18	sync_detector	328,449	0.48%	0
19	audio_only_classifier	230,018	0.34%	0
20	facial_au_analyzer	178,194	0.26%	0
21	aux_visual_head	164,226	0.24%	0
22	liveness_detector	164,097	0.24%	0
23	landmark_trajectory_analyzer	158,529	0.23%	0
24	lip_audio_sync_analyzer	138,945	0.20%	0
25	head_pose_estimator	127,108	0.19%	0
26	skin_color_analyzer	103,105	0.15%	0
27	spectrogram_projection	99,072	0.14%	0
28	aux_audio_head	98,690	0.14%	0
29	face_embedding_processor	98,688	0.14%	0
30	spectrogram_model	92,672	0.14%	0
31	mobile_depth_analyzer	88,896	0.13%	0
32	advanced_physiological_analyzer	86,183	0.13%	0
33	voice_stress_analyzer	49,453	0.07%	0
34	forensic_module	42,880	0.06%	0
35	blood_flow_analyzer	34,791	0.05%	0
36	breathing_pattern_detector	33,900	0.05%	0
37	aux_physiological_head	16,578	0.02%	0
38	aux_facial_head	16,578	0.02%	0
39	digital_heartbeat_detector	14,354	0.02%	0
40	optical_flow_analyzer	8,737	0.01%	0
41	eye_analysis_module	8,067	0.01%	0
42	aux_forensic_head	2,146	<0.01%	0
43	camera_metadata_analyzer	1,744	<0.01%	0
44	av_sync_analyzer	656	<0.01%	0
45	rolling_shutter_detector	184	<0.01%	0
46	component_weights	50	<0.01%	0
47	deepfake_threshold	1	<0.01%	0
48	frequency_threshold	1	<0.01%	0
49	noise_threshold	1	<0.01%	0
50	temporal_consistency_threshold	1	<0.01%	0
51	diversity_loss_weight	1	<0.01%	0
	TOTAL	68,556,807	100%	5,544

21.2 Buffer Inventory (209 buffers)

Buffers are non-parameter state tensors (BatchNorm running statistics, MFCC transform matrices):

Component	Buffer Type	Count
visual_model (EfficientNet-B0)	running_mean, running_var, num_batches_tracked	156
audio_model	running_mean, running_var, num_batches_tracked	9
audio_model.mfcc_transform	dct_mat [40,40], window [400], mel_scale.fb [201,40]	3
micro_expression_detector	BN3d running stats	6
advanced_physiological_analyzer	BN1d running stats	18
blood_flow_analyzer	BN1d running stats	9
breathing_pattern_detector	BN1d running stats	9
classifier	BN1d running stats	6
component_contribution_ema	[50]	1
component_usage_count	[50]	1

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22. Data Features Catalog

22.1 Visual Features

Feature	Extraction Method	Shape	Purpose
Face frames	dlib HOG/CNN detection + crop	[32, 3, 224, 224]	Primary visual input
Facial landmarks	dlib 68-point predictor	[32, 136]	Face geometry analysis
Head pose	Landmark-based estimation	[32, 3]	Head movement consistency
Eye blink	Eye aspect ratio (EAR)	[32]	Blink naturalness
Pulse signal	Color change in face ROI	[32]	Heartbeat detection
Skin color	Mean RGB from face region	[32, 3]	Color consistency
Frequency features	DCT transform	[1, 16, 16]	Compression artifacts
Face embeddings	Per-frame identity	[1, 256]	Identity consistency
Temporal consistency	Frame-to-frame diff	scalar	Temporal smoothness
ELA features	Error level analysis	[112, 112]	Compression forensics

22.2 Audio Features

Feature	Extraction Method	Shape	Purpose
Raw audio	librosa.load at 16kHz	[audio_length]	Primary audio input
Audio spectrogram	Mel spectrogram	[1, 64, 64]	Spectral analysis
MFCC	20 coefficients, 50 steps	[20, 50]	Vocal characteristics
Voice stress	Jitter, shimmer, HNR	[6]	Vocal stress patterns
A/V sync	Audio-visual alignment	[5]	Lip sync detection
Metadata	Bitrate, fps, codec info	[10]	File-level forensics

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23. File Structure

Models/
  train_multimodal.py              # Training loop, FocalLoss, ModelEMA, DeepfakeTrainer
  multi_modal_model.py             # MultiModalDeepfakeModel (68.5M params)
  dataset_loader.py                # Data loading, face detection, feature extraction
  improved_augmentation.py         # Training/validation transforms
  safe_collate.py                  # Custom collate function for variable-length data
  advanced_model_components.py     # AttentionFusion, micro-expression, AU analyzer
  advanced_physiological_analysis.py # Heartbeat, blood flow, breathing detectors
  mobile_sensor_analysis.py        # Optical flow, camera metadata, depth, shutter
  voice_stress_analyzer.py         # Jitter/shimmer, emotional detection, formants
  skin_analyzer.py                 # Skin color temporal analysis
  fallbacks.py                     # Fallback implementations when dependencies missing
  quantization_utils.py            # QAT utilities
  inference.py                     # Single video inference
  inference_api.py                 # REST API for deployment
  predict_deployment.py            # Production deployment wrapper
  train_production_mobile.ps1      # PowerShell training launcher
  requirements.txt                 # Python dependencies
  checkpoints/                     # Saved model checkpoints
  outputs/                         # Training logs and visualizations
  deepfake-env-311/                # Python 3.11 virtual environment

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24. How to Run

24.1 Environment Setup

cd F:\Deepfakee\Models
.\deepfake-env-311\Scripts\Activate.ps1
pip install -r requirements.txt

24.2 Training (Full Pipeline)

cd F:\Deepfakee\Models
.\train_production_mobile.ps1

With options:

# Subset for smoke test
.\train_production_mobile.ps1 -MaxSamples 1000

# Imbalance mitigation preset
.\train_production_mobile.ps1 -Preset imbalance

# Custom learning rate
.\train_production_mobile.ps1 -LearningRate 5e-4

24.3 Training (Direct Python)

python train_multimodal.py `
  --json_path F:\Deepfakee\LAV_DF\metadata.json `
  --data_dir F:\Deepfakee\LAV_DF `
  --output_dir outputs/run_manual `
  --checkpoint_dir checkpoints/run_manual `
  --batch_size 16 --num_epochs 80 `
  --learning_rate 3e-4 --weight_decay 0.01 `
  --loss_type focal --focal_alpha 1.0 --label_smoothing 0.05 `
  --ema_decay 0.999 --mixup_alpha 0.2 `
  --grad_accum_steps 4 --amp_enabled `
  --warmup_epochs 3 --early_stopping_patience 10 `
  --use_spectrogram --detect_faces --enhanced_preprocessing `
  --enhanced_augmentation --use_weighted_loss

24.4 Inference

python inference.py --video_path path/to/video.mp4 --checkpoint_path checkpoints/best_model.pth

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25. Key Bug Fixes Applied

Over 8 development sessions, 30+ critical bugs were identified and fixed:

Session 1: Landmark Initialization

• Bug: dlib face landmark predictor not initialized, producing all-zero landmarks
• Fix: Proper dlib initialization with shape_predictor_68_face_landmarks.dat

Session 2: Full Codebase Audit (23 issues)

• Data leakage in train/val splitting
• AttentionFusion dimension mismatch
• Spectrogram feature dimension errors
• Dead code removal
• Inference pipeline rewrite

Session 3: Remaining Fixes (10 items)

• target_dim not passed to attention modules
• forensic_features wiring disconnected
• Label smoothing and scheduler CLI args missing

Session 4: Accuracy Optimizations (19 changes)

• Added EMA (decay=0.999)
• Added Mixup (alpha=0.2)
• BatchNorm in classifier (replacing bare Linear)
• Reduced dropout (0.5->0.3)
• Faster backbone unfreezing schedule
• Warmup tuning (3 epochs)

Session 5: Data Pipeline Fixes (5 items)

• dlib fallback landmark normalization
• Deterministic validation transforms (no random compression)
• Multi-frame frequency features
• BN/bias weight decay exclusion
• EMA BatchNorm buffer tracking

Session 6: Structural Fixes (3 items)

• Explainability projector (replaced zero-noise pipeline)
• Loss rebalancing: 0.1 audio + 0.1 video + 0.05 KL
• Discriminative learning rates (backbone 10x lower)

Session 7: Critical Training Fixes

• Progressive unfreezing broken: Frozen backbone params were excluded from optimizer entirely. When unfrozen, they had no optimizer state. Fix: include ALL params in optimizer from start.
• EMA same bug: EMA didn't track frozen params. Fix: track ALL params including frozen.
• Logging spam: Reduced to every 200-500 batches
• Non-AMP modality losses: Per-modality losses computed in float32

Session 8: Runtime Fixes

• BatchNorm crash: Batch size 1 at end of epoch caused "Expected more than 1 value per channel." Fix: drop_last=True for training DataLoaders.
• PS1 parse errors: Unicode characters, comma parameter separators, variable interpolation. Fix: ASCII-only, single-quoted strings.
• UTF-8 encoding: Model init emoji prints caused cp1252 encoding failures. Fix: TextIOWrapper with UTF-8.

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26. References and Benchmarks

26.1 LAV-DF Benchmark

Published methods on LAV-DF achieve:

• Audio-visual fusion methods: 92-97% accuracy
• Video-only methods: 85-92% accuracy
• Audio-only methods: 78-88% accuracy

26.2 Key Papers

• EfficientNet: Tan & Le, "EfficientNet: Rethinking Model Scaling for Convolutional Neural Networks" (ICML 2019)
• Focal Loss: Lin et al., "Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection" (ICCV 2017)
• Mixup: Zhang et al., "mixup: Beyond Empirical Risk Minimization" (ICLR 2018)
• EMA: Polyak & Juditsky, "Acceleration of Stochastic Approximation by Averaging" (1992)
• LAV-DF: Cai et al., "Do You Really Mean That? Content Driven Audio-Visual Deepfake Dataset and Multimodal Method for Temporal Forgery Localization" (2022)
• FACS / Action Units: Ekman & Friesen, "Facial Action Coding System" (1978)
• rPPG: De Haan & Jeanne, "Robust Pulse Rate From Chrominance-Based rPPG" (2013)

26.3 Hardware Requirements

Component	Minimum	Recommended
GPU	6GB VRAM	8GB+ VRAM (RTX 4060+)
RAM	16GB	32GB
Storage	50GB (dataset)	100GB
CPU	8 cores	16+ cores

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Generated from model architecture dump (68,556,807 parameters across 48 component groups, 209 buffers).