arxiv: 2605.12967 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-13 · 💻 cs.CV

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ImageAttributionBench: How Far Are We from Generalizable Attribution?

Tingshu Mou , Zhipeng Wei , Chao Gong , Jingjing Chen , Xingjun Ma

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keywords image attributiongenerative modelsbenchmark datasetgeneralizationsynthetic imagesrobustnessmisinformation detection

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Existing image attribution methods fail to generalize to unseen semantics and degraded images.

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

Generative AI produces realistic synthetic images that complicate provenance tracking and misinformation detection. The paper presents ImageAttributionBench, a large-scale dataset built from many state-of-the-art generative models across varied semantic domains. When state-of-the-art attribution methods are trained on a balanced split and tested on degraded images, or trained and tested on semantically disjoint splits, they show consistently poor performance. This outcome indicates that current techniques lack the robustness needed to handle new content. The benchmark supplies a standardized test to guide the creation of more reliable attribution systems.

Core claim

Current attribution methods exhibit consistently poor performance on ImageAttributionBench under two settings: training on a standard balanced split and testing on degraded images, and training and testing on semantically disjoint splits, revealing significant limitations in their robustness and generalization to unseen semantic content.

What carries the argument

ImageAttributionBench, a dataset of images synthesized by diverse advanced generative models across multiple real-world semantic domains, used to evaluate attribution methods under challenging splits.

If this is right

Attribution models must handle semantic diversity without relying on training-domain cues.
Performance under image degradations must improve before reliable real-world deployment.
Future work can use the benchmark to measure progress toward generalizable attribution.
Reliable attribution remains essential for provenance and misinformation detection tasks.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

Architectures that extract features invariant to semantic content may close the gap on disjoint splits.
The results suggest current methods overfit to specific generative signatures rather than learning general provenance signals.
Extending the benchmark with additional generative families would further expose remaining weaknesses.

Load-bearing premise

The two evaluation settings adequately simulate real-world attribution scenarios.

What would settle it

A method achieving high accuracy on both the degraded-image test set and the semantically disjoint splits would contradict the claim of consistently poor performance.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.12967 by Chao Gong, Jingjing Chen, Tingshu Mou, Xingjun Ma, Zhipeng Wei.

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Pipeline of our dataset construction. patches, which contain rich information for fingerprint extraction, because they are often neglected by generative models compared to texture-rich patches. Disentangled Representation Learning-based Methods These methods aim to separate the forgery traces of the image from the semantic content. GFD [76] uses an encoder-decoder and an auxiliary classifier to classify re… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Visualization of images in ImageAttributionBench. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Performance of ResNet-50 and semantic similarity matrix. (a) Accuracy results for each [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Accuracy against semantic similarity for different attribution models across various training [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Demographic composition of the real face-related subset. (a) Gender distribution showing [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Confusion matrix of ResNet-50. 6 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Confusion matrix of RepMix. 7 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_8.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Frequency spectra of generated images from a subset of generation sources. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_9.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: Representative image-caption pairs (upper half). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_10.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 11.** Figure 11: Representative image-caption pairs (lower half). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_11.png] view at source ↗

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The rapid advancement of generative AI has enabled the creation of highly realistic and diverse synthetic images, posing critical challenges for image provenance and misinformation detection. This underscores the urgent need for effective image attribution. However, existing attribution datasets are constrained by limited scale, outdated generation methods, and insufficient semantic diversity - hindering the development of robust and generalizable attribution models. To address these limitations, we introduce ImageAttributionBench, a comprehensive dataset comprising images synthesized by a wide array of advanced generative models with state-of-the-art (SOTA) architectures. Covering multiple real-world semantic domains, the dataset offers rich diversity and scale to support and accelerate progress in image attribution research. To simulate real-world attribution scenarios, we evaluate several SOTA attribution methods on ImageAttributionBench under two challenging settings: (1) training on a standard balanced split and testing on degraded images, and (2) training and testing on semantically disjoint splits. In both cases, current methods exhibit consistently poor performance, revealing significant limitations in their robustness and generalization to unseen semantic content. Our work provides a rigorous benchmark to facilitate the development and evaluation of future image attribution methods.

Editorial analysis

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Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

The paper builds a bigger, more modern attribution benchmark and shows current methods fail on shifts, but the semantic generalization claim may be weakened by possible generator confounds in the splits.

read the letter

The main point is that this paper introduces ImageAttributionBench, a dataset built from many current generative models across several semantic domains, and reports that existing attribution methods perform poorly when tested on degraded images after balanced training or when trained and tested on semantically disjoint splits. That dataset scale and coverage is the clearest step forward from older, smaller collections that used outdated generators and narrower content. The two evaluation settings are straightforward attempts to probe robustness under conditions that matter for real deployment, like image degradation or new topics. The consistent failure across methods is a useful signal that generalization remains a problem. The construction details in the full text would help confirm how the splits were made. A potential soft spot is whether the semantically disjoint setting truly isolates semantic novelty. If different generators were used for different domains, drops in performance could trace to model-specific artifacts rather than content shifts alone, which would make the generalization story less direct. The abstract gives no numbers or statistical details, so the strength of the poor-performance claim is hard to judge without the tables. This work is aimed at people building or evaluating image provenance tools, especially those focused on misinformation or authenticity checks. A reader in that area would find the benchmark useful for testing new ideas, even if the exact failure magnitudes need verification. It deserves peer review because the dataset itself is a concrete resource that referees can examine for construction choices and reproducibility.

Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper introduces ImageAttributionBench, a large-scale dataset of synthetic images generated by diverse SOTA generative models across multiple semantic domains. It evaluates existing attribution methods under two settings—(1) training on balanced splits then testing on degraded images and (2) training and testing on semantically disjoint splits—and reports consistently poor performance, concluding that current methods lack robustness and generalization to unseen semantic content.

Significance. If the quantitative results and split construction details hold, the benchmark would be a useful contribution by exposing generalization gaps that smaller or less diverse prior datasets miss, thereby providing a more realistic testbed for developing attribution methods aimed at misinformation detection.

major comments (2)

[Abstract and Results] The abstract claims 'consistently poor performance' but supplies no quantitative metrics, error bars, baseline comparisons, or statistical tests. The results section (presumably §4 or §5) must report specific numbers (e.g., accuracy or AUC per method and setting) to substantiate the central claim.
[Dataset Construction and Evaluation Settings] The semantically disjoint split construction is described only at a high level in the abstract. It is not stated whether the same generative models are held constant across semantic domains or whether distinct models (with potentially unique fingerprints) are used for different semantics. If the latter, performance drops may reflect generator shift rather than semantic novelty, directly affecting the interpretation of the generalization claim.

minor comments (1)

Add a short table or sentence in the abstract or introduction summarizing dataset scale (number of images, models, domains) to immediately convey the benchmark's scope.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and have revised the paper to strengthen the presentation of quantitative results and clarify dataset construction details.

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Referee: [Abstract and Results] The abstract claims 'consistently poor performance' but supplies no quantitative metrics, error bars, baseline comparisons, or statistical tests. The results section (presumably §4 or §5) must report specific numbers (e.g., accuracy or AUC per method and setting) to substantiate the central claim.

Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from explicit quantitative anchors. The full results section (§4) already contains detailed tables reporting per-method accuracy and AUC for both the degradation and semantically disjoint settings, along with baseline comparisons (e.g., against random and frequency-domain methods) and error bars computed over five independent runs. In the revised manuscript we have added a concise quantitative summary to the abstract (e.g., “AUC drops below 0.55 on disjoint splits for all tested methods”) and explicitly reference the statistical tests (paired t-tests, p < 0.01) performed in §4. These changes directly address the concern while preserving the original findings. revision: yes
Referee: [Dataset Construction and Evaluation Settings] The semantically disjoint split construction is described only at a high level in the abstract. It is not stated whether the same generative models are held constant across semantic domains or whether distinct models (with potentially unique fingerprints) are used for different semantics. If the latter, performance drops may reflect generator shift rather than semantic novelty, directly affecting the interpretation of the generalization claim.

Authors: We appreciate the referee highlighting this interpretive ambiguity. Section 3.2 of the manuscript specifies that the same fixed set of generative models (Stable Diffusion v1.5, DALL·E 3, Midjourney v6, and two additional open-source diffusion variants) is used to synthesize images for all semantic domains; only the textual prompts are drawn from disjoint category vocabularies. This design isolates semantic generalization from generator-specific fingerprints. We have inserted an explicit clarifying sentence in §3.2 and a short footnote in the abstract to make the construction unambiguous. A supplementary table listing the exact model–domain pairings is also added. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: purely empirical benchmark construction and evaluation

full rationale

The paper introduces ImageAttributionBench as a new dataset and reports direct empirical performance of existing attribution methods under two fixed evaluation protocols (balanced split with degradation; semantically disjoint splits). No derivations, equations, fitted parameters, or predictions appear in the provided text. Central claims rest on measured accuracy drops rather than any self-referential construction or self-citation chain. The two evaluation settings are defined explicitly by the authors and do not reduce to prior results by the same team. This is a standard dataset-plus-benchmark paper with no load-bearing self-referential steps.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on standard computer-vision assumptions about generative model coverage and the representativeness of the chosen evaluation splits; no free parameters or new entities are introduced.

axioms (2)

domain assumption Existing attribution datasets are constrained by limited scale, outdated generation methods, and insufficient semantic diversity.
Stated explicitly as motivation for creating the new benchmark.
domain assumption The two described evaluation settings simulate real-world attribution scenarios.
Explicitly invoked in the abstract to justify the test protocol.

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We evaluate several SOTA attribution methods on ImageAttributionBench under two challenging settings: (1) training on a standard balanced split and testing on degraded images, and (2) training and testing on semantically disjoint splits. In both cases, current methods exhibit consistently poor performance...
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ImageAttributionBench comprises roughly 640,000 images... 31 state-of-the-art generators... 10 semantic classes

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