REVIEW 12 cited by
So-Fake: Benchmarking and Explaining Social Media Image Forgery Detection
Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.
This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.
SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event
T0 review · schema-true
One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.
pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp
So-Fake: Benchmarking and Explaining Social Media Image Forgery Detection
read the original abstract
Recent advances in AI-powered generative models have enabled the creation of increasingly realistic synthetic images, posing significant risks to information integrity and public trust on social media platforms. While robust detection frameworks and diverse, large-scale datasets are essential to mitigate these risks, existing academic efforts remain limited in scope: current datasets lack the diversity, scale, and realism required for social media contexts, while detection methods struggle with generalization to unseen generative technologies. To bridge this gap, we introduce So-Fake-Set, a comprehensive social media-oriented dataset with over 2 million high-quality images, diverse generative sources, and photorealistic imagery synthesized using 35 state-of-the-art generative models. To rigorously evaluate cross-domain robustness, we establish a novel and large-scale (100K) out-of-domain benchmark (So-Fake-OOD) featuring synthetic imagery from commercial models explicitly excluded from the training distribution, creating a realistic testbed for evaluating real-world performance. Leveraging these resources, we present So-Fake-R1, an advanced vision-language framework that employs reinforcement learning for highly accurate forgery detection, precise localization, and explainable inference through interpretable visual rationales. Extensive experiments show that So-Fake-R1 outperforms the second-best method, with a 1.3% gain in detection accuracy and a 4.5% increase in localization IoU. By integrating a scalable dataset, a challenging OOD benchmark, and an advanced detection framework, this work establishes a new foundation for social media-centric forgery detection research. The code, models, and datasets will be released publicly.
Forward citations
Cited by 12 Pith papers
-
The Regularizing Power of Language-Training Deepfake Detectors
A dual-encoder deepfake detector pairs a frozen specialist with a LoRA-tuned MLLM, trained first via binary alignment then via RL to reward explain-then-classify behavior, yielding improved cross-dataset performance a...
-
ReAlign: Generalizable Image Forgery Detection via Reasoning-Aligned Representation
ReAlign distills LLM-generated reasoning texts into a lightweight AIGI forgery detector via contrastive image-text alignment to improve generalization on complex forgeries.
-
Code-in-the-Loop Forensics: Agentic Tool Use for Image Forgery Detection
ForenAgent lets MLLMs create and iteratively improve low-level Python tools for image forgery detection via a two-stage training pipeline and a new 100k-image benchmark dataset.
-
JECA^2: Judgment-Explanation Consistent Adversarial Attack against Forensic Vision-Language Models
JECA^2 is a new white-box attack method using Grad-CAM-guided perturbations and prompt embedding optimization to achieve judgment-explanation consistent adversarial attacks on forensic VLMs.
-
Face-Trace: Open-Set Attribution and Progressive Discovery of Synthetic Face Generators
Face-Trace attributes synthetic face images to known generators, rejects images from unseen generators via an energy score, and clusters the rejected images into groups corresponding to distinct unknown generators, in...
-
Face-Trace: Open-Set Attribution and Progressive Discovery of Synthetic Face Generators
A pipeline combining frozen I-JEPA embeddings, energy-based OOD rejection, and HDBSCAN clustering achieves 87.74% purity in discovering unknown synthetic face generators, extended to an incremental setting with 99.23%...
-
Omni-Fake: Benchmarking Unified Multimodal Social Media Deepfake Detection
Omni-Fake delivers a unified multimodal deepfake benchmark dataset and RL-driven detector that reports gains in accuracy, cross-modal generalization, and explainability over prior baselines.
-
Code-in-the-Loop Forensics: Agentic Tool Use for Image Forgery Detection
ForenAgent, an MLLM that writes and runs Python forensics tools over multiple turns, beats prior image-forgery detectors on its new FABench benchmark and on SIDA-Test.
-
FakeVLM-R1: Internalizing Physical Laws via CoT for Synthetic Image Detection
FakeVLM-R1 combines GRPO reinforcement learning with critical-thinking CoT and a physics-annotated FakeClue++ dataset to reach claimed SOTA synthetic image detection while reducing over-rejection of real images.
-
Boosting Robust AIGI Detection with LoRA-based Pairwise Training
LoRA-based pairwise training with distortion and size simulations boosts robust AIGI detection under severe distortions, placing third in the NTIRE challenge.
-
NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Robust AI-Generated Image Detection in the Wild
The NTIRE 2026 challenge provides a dataset of over 294,000 real and AI-generated images with 36 transformations to benchmark robust detection models.
-
HEDGE: Heterogeneous Ensemble for Detection of AI-GEnerated Images in the Wild
HEDGE is a heterogeneous ensemble using progressive DINOv3 training, multi-scale features, and MetaCLIP2 diversity with dual-gating fusion to achieve robust AI-generated image detection and 4th place in the NTIRE 2026...
discussion (0)
Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.