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arxiv: 2506.00979 · v6 · submitted 2025-06-01 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

Ivy-Fake: A Unified Explainable Framework and Benchmark for Image and Video AIGC Detection

Changjiang Jiang , Wenhui Dong , Zhonghao Zhang , Fengchang Yu , Wei Peng , Xinbin Yuan , Yifei Bi , Ming Zhao
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keywords AIGC detectionexplainable AIforgery detectionmultimodal benchmarkimage and videoreinforcement learningsynthetic media
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Ivy-Fake benchmark and Ivy-xDetector add explainable reasoning to AIGC detection while raising benchmark accuracy.

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Current AIGC detectors are limited by binary labels and weak interpretability, making them less trustworthy as synthetic content grows more convincing. This paper creates Ivy-Fake, a benchmark with over 106,000 training samples and 5,000 verified test cases that include rich, multidimensional annotations explaining forgery features in both images and videos. It also introduces Ivy-xDetector, which uses reinforcement learning with Group Relative Policy Optimization to output step-by-step reasoning chains about detected forgeries. If successful, this would let users see not just a fake-or-real verdict but the specific visual or temporal clues behind it. The reported results show the new detector lifting accuracy on the GenImage benchmark from 86.88 percent to 96.32 percent.

Core claim

The paper presents Ivy-Fake as the first large-scale multimodal benchmark for explainable AIGC detection, containing over 106K richly annotated training samples and 5,000 manually verified evaluation examples sourced from multiple generative models. It further proposes Ivy-xDetector, a reinforcement learning model based on Group Relative Policy Optimization capable of producing explainable reasoning chains, which demonstrates robust performance and improves results on GenImage from 86.88% to 96.32%, surpassing prior state-of-the-art methods.

What carries the argument

Ivy-xDetector, the reinforcement learning model using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to generate explainable reasoning chains for forgery detection in the Ivy-Fake framework.

If this is right

  • Detectors gain the ability to output multidimensional explanations rather than simple binary classifications.
  • Unified handling of both image and video AIGC content becomes possible within one framework.
  • Performance gains appear across multiple synthetic content detection benchmarks beyond the reported GenImage improvement.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Similar annotation pipelines could be adapted to improve explainability in related areas such as deepfake video analysis or misinformation detection.
  • The manually verified 5,000 examples might become a standard test set for evaluating the quality of model-generated explanations.
  • If the reasoning chains prove consistent with human analysis, this approach could reduce reliance on purely statistical detectors in high-stakes moderation decisions.

Load-bearing premise

The carefully designed pipeline produces diverse, high-quality, multidimensional annotations that accurately capture explainable forgery features, and the 5,000 manually verified examples are representative without annotation errors.

What would settle it

Testing Ivy-xDetector on a fresh collection of images and videos generated by previously unseen AIGC models and verifying whether the accuracy remains near 96 percent while the reasoning steps match independent human judgments of the forgery clues.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2506.00979 by Caifeng Shan, Changjiang Jiang, Chenyang Si, Fengchang Yu, Ming Zhao, Wei Peng, Wenhui Dong, Xinbin Yuan, Yifei Bi, Zhonghao Zhang, Zian Zhou.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the IVY-FAKE framework: By conducting in-depth analysis of temporal and spatial artifacts, the framework enables explainable detection of AI-generated content. To date, most AIGC detection methods have framed the problem as a binary classification task: determining whether content is authentic or AI-generated. However, these approaches typically offer limited interpretability, which undermines … view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of the proposed unified and explainable IVY-FAKE dataset. Input images or [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Overview of the three-stage training pipeline for Ivy-Detector, including general video [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: User Prompt Template for Image Data Distillation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: System Prompt Template for Image Data Distillation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: System Prompt Template for Video Data Distillation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: GPT Assisted Evaluation Prompt 5 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Image example 1 where Ivy-xDetector successfully detects subtle spatial anomalies missed by baselines [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Image example 2 illustrating improved robustness of Ivy-xDetector against visually deceptive artifacts. 6 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Video example 1 demonstrating that Ivy-xDetector effectively captures temporal incon￾sistencies overlooked by baseline models [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Video example 2 showcasing Ivy-xDetector’s superior ability to detect subtle cross-frame temporal artifacts. 7 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_13.png] view at source ↗
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The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) techniques has enabled the creation of high-quality synthetic content, but it also raises significant security concerns. Current detection methods face two major limitations: (1) the lack of multidimensional explainable datasets for generated images and videos. Existing open-source datasets (e.g., WildFake, GenVideo) rely on oversimplified binary annotations, which restrict the explainability and trustworthiness of trained detectors. (2) Prior MLLM-based forgery detectors (e.g., FakeVLM) exhibit insufficiently fine-grained interpretability in their step-by-step reasoning, which hinders reliable localization and explanation. To address these challenges, we introduce Ivy-Fake, the first large-scale multimodal benchmark for explainable AIGC detection. It consists of over 106K richly annotated training samples (images and videos) and 5,000 manually verified evaluation examples, sourced from multiple generative models and real world datasets through a carefully designed pipeline to ensure both diversity and quality. Furthermore, we propose Ivy-xDetector, a reinforcement learning model based on Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), capable of producing explainable reasoning chains and achieving robust performance across multiple synthetic content detection benchmarks. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our dataset and confirm the effectiveness of our approach. Notably, our method improves performance on GenImage from 86.88% to 96.32%, surpassing prior state-of-the-art methods by a clear margin.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces Ivy-Fake, a large-scale multimodal benchmark for explainable AIGC detection comprising over 106K richly annotated training samples (images and videos) and 5,000 manually verified evaluation examples sourced via a designed pipeline from multiple generative models. It further proposes Ivy-xDetector, a Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) reinforcement learning model that generates explainable reasoning chains and reports robust detection performance, including an improvement on the GenImage benchmark from 86.88% to 96.32% that surpasses prior state-of-the-art methods.

Significance. If the reported gains prove robust, the work supplies a valuable new resource for training interpretable AIGC detectors and demonstrates the utility of RL-based fine-grained reasoning for forgery localization. The scale of the annotated dataset and the explicit focus on multidimensional explainability address documented limitations in existing binary-labeled corpora and MLLM detectors, potentially supporting more trustworthy deployment in content verification pipelines.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4.2 and Table 2] §4.2 and Table 2: the 9.44 percentage-point lift on GenImage is presented as evidence of superiority, yet the manuscript does not report standard deviations across multiple random seeds or statistical significance tests; without these, it is unclear whether the margin over prior SOTA is stable or sensitive to evaluation splits.
  2. [§3.1] §3.1: the pipeline for producing multidimensional annotations is described at a high level, but no quantitative analysis (e.g., inter-annotator agreement or error rate on the 5,000 verified examples) is supplied; this weakens the claim that the annotations accurately capture explainable forgery features and are free of systematic bias.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§5.1] §5.1: the GRPO reward formulation is given, but the relative weighting of the explainability and detection terms is not ablated; a short sensitivity study would clarify whether the reported reasoning quality is robust to these hyperparameters.
  2. [Figure 5] Figure 5: the qualitative reasoning-chain examples are helpful, yet the font size and contrast in the video frames make some forgery-localization arrows difficult to read; higher-resolution insets would improve clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments and positive overall assessment of our manuscript. We address each major comment in detail below and will revise the paper to incorporate additional analyses that strengthen the presentation of results and dataset quality.

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  1. Referee: [§4.2 and Table 2] §4.2 and Table 2: the 9.44 percentage-point lift on GenImage is presented as evidence of superiority, yet the manuscript does not report standard deviations across multiple random seeds or statistical significance tests; without these, it is unclear whether the margin over prior SOTA is stable or sensitive to evaluation splits.

    Authors: We agree that reporting variability and statistical significance would further substantiate the robustness of the reported gains. In the revised manuscript we will rerun the GenImage evaluation using five independent random seeds, reporting mean accuracy together with standard deviation. We will also add a paired statistical significance test (e.g., Wilcoxon signed-rank test) against the prior state-of-the-art method to confirm that the 9.44-point improvement is statistically significant. These results and the corresponding discussion will be inserted into Section 4.2 and updated in Table 2. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.1] §3.1: the pipeline for producing multidimensional annotations is described at a high level, but no quantitative analysis (e.g., inter-annotator agreement or error rate on the 5,000 verified examples) is supplied; this weakens the claim that the annotations accurately capture explainable forgery features and are free of systematic bias.

    Authors: We concur that quantitative validation of annotation reliability is essential. For the 5,000 manually verified evaluation examples we will compute and report inter-annotator agreement using Fleiss’ kappa across the multiple annotators involved in the verification stage. We will additionally include an error-rate estimate derived from the verification process and any resolved discrepancies. These metrics and a brief discussion of their implications will be added to Section 3.1 of the revised manuscript. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper introduces the Ivy-Fake dataset and Ivy-xDetector model, with the central empirical claim being an accuracy improvement on the external GenImage benchmark (86.88% to 96.32%) plus other standard benchmarks. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations reduce this performance result to quantities defined or fitted inside the same training data by construction. The derivation relies on external evaluation sets, manually verified examples, and comparisons to prior methods, remaining self-contained.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on the assumption that the new annotations are accurate and that standard RL training on this data yields generalizable explainable detectors.

free parameters (1)
  • GRPO training hyperparameters
    Hyperparameters for Group Relative Policy Optimization are chosen or tuned to produce the reported reasoning chains and accuracy gains.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Rich multidimensional annotations in the new dataset correctly capture forgery cues that binary labels miss.
    Invoked when claiming the dataset enables superior explainable training.

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