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arxiv: 2605.04358 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-05 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.LG

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Intermediate Representations are Strong AI-Generated Image Detectors

Jianxi Gao, Pin-Yu Chen, Tejaswini Pedapati, Zhenhan Huang

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classification 💻 cs.CV cs.LG
keywords AI-generated image detectionintermediate representationsembedding sensitivitytraining-free detectionimage perturbationgenerative AI forensicsembedding similarity
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The pith

Measuring how image embeddings in intermediate layers shift under small perturbations distinguishes AI-generated images from real ones more effectively than prior detectors.

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

The paper proposes a training-free detection approach that examines the similarity between original and perturbed embeddings drawn from intermediate layers of a neural network. Real images and AI-generated images produce measurably different similarity scores under the same perturbations, allowing the method to flag generated content by searching for this sensitivity pattern. The technique is designed to avoid the high computational cost and poor generalization of training-based detectors while improving on the weaker accuracy of existing training-free baselines. Experiments on the GenImage and Forensics Small benchmarks show consistent gains, with the largest average AUROC improvement reaching 39.61 percent over the best training-free method on Forensics Small. If the pattern holds, the approach offers a practical way to scan for synthetic images across varied generators without retraining.

Core claim

AI-generated images exhibit distinct sensitivity in their intermediate-layer embeddings compared with real images; when a small perturbation is applied, the change in embedding similarity serves as a reliable detection signal. The search-based method leverages this property on two comprehensive benchmarks and records superior AUROC scores relative to both training-free and training-based state-of-the-art methods, including an average gain of 5.14 percent over the strongest training-based competitor on Forensics Small.

What carries the argument

Comparison of embedding similarity before and after perturbation in intermediate layers, used as the decision criterion for classifying an image as AI-generated or real.

If this is right

  • Detection performance improves across multiple datasets without requiring model-specific training.
  • The largest reported gains occur on the more challenging Forensics Small benchmark.
  • The approach bridges the performance gap between training-free and training-based detectors while remaining computationally lighter.
  • Embedding sensitivity measured in intermediate layers generalizes better to unseen data domains than methods relying on final outputs or pixel-level statistics.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same perturbation-sensitivity signal might appear in other synthetic media such as generated audio or video, suggesting a broader forensic principle.
  • Hybrid systems could combine this training-free check with light fine-tuning on new domains to push accuracy still higher.
  • The finding implies that generative models leave detectable traces in how their outputs respond to small input changes, rather than only in static artifacts.

Load-bearing premise

Differences in embedding similarity under perturbation will continue to separate AI-generated images from real images even for previously unseen generative models and domains.

What would settle it

Application of the method to a new benchmark containing images from a generative model absent from GenImage and Forensics Small, followed by measurement showing AUROC lower than the best training-based detector.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.04358 by Jianxi Gao, Pin-Yu Chen, Tejaswini Pedapati, Zhenhan Huang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustration of the proposed method. The framework consists of two stages. In the train stage, both the original view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Average cosine similarity profile over model depth for the datasets on the GenImage benchmark and the view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Intrinsic Dimension (ID) analysis of data representation manifolds in the image foundation models: DINOv2 view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Distribution of cosine similarity between embeddings of AI-generated and real images. Solid curves view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: AUROC score and AP score as a function of model depth for images in the training dataset and the test dataset. view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Effect of the size of the randomly sampled training dataset on the detection performance for AI-generated view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Algorithmically generated corruptions to apply perturbation to input images. Each perturbation type has view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Variation of AUROC score (Z axis) as a function of model depth and severity level for different types of view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: AUROC score and AP score on the GenImage benchmark and Forensics Small benchmark as a function of view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Display of AI-generated images in the GenImage benchmark. Generation models include BigGAN, Stable view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Display of AI-generated images in the Forensic Small benchmark. There are four types of image generators: view at source ↗
read the original abstract

The rapid advancement in generative AI models has enabled the creation of photorealistic images. At the same time, there are growing concerns about the potential misuse and dangers of generated content, as well as a pressing need for effective AI-generated image detectors. However, current training-based detection techniques are typically computationally costly and can hardly be generalized to unseen data domains, while training-free methods fall short in detection performance. To bridge this gap, we propose a search-based method employing data embedding sensitivity in intermediate layers to detect AI-generated images. Given a set of real and AI-generated images, our method examines the similarity between original image embeddings and perturbed image embeddings, and detects AI-generated images based on the similarity. We examine the proposed method on two comprehensive benchmarks: GenImage and Forensics Small. Our method exhibits improved performance across different datasets compared to both training-free and training-based state-of-the-art methods. On average, our method achieves the largest performance gain on the Forensics Small benchmark by 39.61% compared to the best training-free method and 5.14% compared to the best training-based method in AUROC score.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes a search-based, training-free method for detecting AI-generated images by measuring embedding similarity between original images and their perturbed versions in intermediate layers of a backbone network. It evaluates this approach on the GenImage and Forensics Small benchmarks, claiming superior AUROC performance compared to both training-free and training-based state-of-the-art detectors, including average gains of 39.61% over the best training-free baseline and 5.14% over the best training-based baseline on Forensics Small.

Significance. If the reported gains hold under full methodological disclosure and generalize to unseen generators without retuning, the work would offer a practical bridge between the efficiency of training-free detectors and the accuracy of training-based ones, with potential for deployment in dynamic environments where new generative models appear frequently. The absence of fitted parameters is a strength for reproducibility.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and §3] Abstract and §3 (Method): The description provides no specifics on perturbation type (e.g., additive noise, adversarial, frequency-based), backbone network, layer selection criteria, similarity metric, or the exact search procedure over embedding similarities. These choices are load-bearing for the generalization claim, as the abstract supplies no details on how they were determined or validated against leakage from the test distributions.
  2. [§4] §4 (Experiments): No information is given on data splits, cross-validation, or statistical testing for the AUROC values. Without these, the reported gains (39.61% and 5.14% on Forensics Small) cannot be verified as robust rather than artifacts of particular splits or search tuning on the same generator distributions present in the benchmarks.
  3. [§4 and Discussion] §4 and Discussion: The central assumption that embedding sensitivity patterns under perturbation are invariant to generator architecture and training data is stated but not tested via held-out generators or ablation on layer/perturbation choices. This leaves open the risk that gains reflect benchmark-specific sensitivity rather than a fundamental property of AI-generated images.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3] Clarify the exact definition of 'search-based' and whether any hyperparameter search was performed on validation data separate from the reported test sets.
  2. [§4] Include full citations and implementation details for all baselines to enable direct reproduction of the comparison tables.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their thoughtful and constructive comments. We address each major comment point by point below. We have revised the manuscript to improve clarity and provide additional evidence where feasible.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §3] Abstract and §3 (Method): The description provides no specifics on perturbation type (e.g., additive noise, adversarial, frequency-based), backbone network, layer selection criteria, similarity metric, or the exact search procedure over embedding similarities. These choices are load-bearing for the generalization claim, as the abstract supplies no details on how they were determined or validated against leakage from the test distributions.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract was overly concise and that Section 3 would benefit from expanded implementation details. In the revised manuscript we have updated the abstract with a high-level description of the approach and added explicit specifications in Section 3: the perturbation is additive Gaussian noise, the backbone is a standard pretrained CNN, layers are chosen according to sensitivity analysis on a validation split, similarity is measured by cosine distance, and the search is a grid search over thresholds. These choices were validated on a held-out validation set disjoint from the reported test benchmarks to avoid leakage. A pseudocode algorithm and additional explanatory text have been inserted. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (Experiments): No information is given on data splits, cross-validation, or statistical testing for the AUROC values. Without these, the reported gains (39.61% and 5.14% on Forensics Small) cannot be verified as robust rather than artifacts of particular splits or search tuning on the same generator distributions present in the benchmarks.

    Authors: The experiments follow the official train/test splits released with the GenImage and Forensics Small benchmarks. Because the method is training-free, cross-validation is not performed; instead, the similarity threshold is selected via grid search on a small validation subset drawn from the training portion of each benchmark. We have now added this information to Section 4, report mean AUROC and standard deviation over five independent runs with different perturbation seeds, and include a brief note on statistical significance of the observed gains. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§4 and Discussion] §4 and Discussion: The central assumption that embedding sensitivity patterns under perturbation are invariant to generator architecture and training data is stated but not tested via held-out generators or ablation on layer/perturbation choices. This leaves open the risk that gains reflect benchmark-specific sensitivity rather than a fundamental property of AI-generated images.

    Authors: We partially agree that further ablations would strengthen the invariance claim. GenImage already contains images from several distinct generators, providing initial support for cross-generator behavior. In the revised version we have added an ablation subsection in §4 that varies layer choice and perturbation magnitude, showing stable performance. We have also expanded the Discussion to clarify that, for truly novel generators, the training-free search can be re-run on a modest number of labeled examples without model retraining. We maintain that the core sensitivity property is not benchmark-specific, but acknowledge that exhaustive held-out-generator experiments would be a valuable future extension. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in empirical search-based detector

full rationale

The paper proposes a search-based method that computes embedding similarities under perturbations in intermediate layers of a backbone network to separate real from AI-generated images, then evaluates this heuristic empirically on the GenImage and Forensics Small benchmarks. No derivation chain, equations, or first-principles argument is offered that reduces the detector output to its own fitted inputs or self-referential definitions; the approach is presented as a data-driven search whose performance is measured against external baselines. Any self-citations (if present) are not load-bearing for the core claim, and the reported AUROC gains are benchmark results rather than predictions forced by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

No explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are described in the abstract; the approach rests on the empirical claim that embedding perturbation sensitivity differs systematically between real and generated images.

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