RAIDX: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation and GRPO Reinforcement Learning Framework for Explainable Deepfake Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04524v1
• Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:08:16 GMT
• Title: RAIDX: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation and GRPO Reinforcement Learning Framework for Explainable Deepfake Detection
• Authors: Tianxiao Li, Zhenglin Huang, Haiquan Wen, Yiwei He, Shuchang Lyu, Baoyuan Wu, Guangliang Cheng,
• Abstract summary: RAIDX is a novel deepfake detection framework that integrates Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Group Relative Policy Optimization ( GRPO)<n>RAG incorporates external knowledge for improved detection accuracy and employs GRPO to autonomously generate fine-grained textual explanations and saliency maps.<n>Experiments on multiple benchmarks demonstrate RAIDX's effectiveness in identifying real or fake, and providing interpretable rationales in both textual descriptions and saliency maps.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The rapid advancement of AI-generation models has enabled the creation of hyperrealistic imagery, posing ethical risks through widespread misinformation. Current deepfake detection methods, categorized as face specific detectors or general AI-generated detectors, lack transparency by framing detection as a classification task without explaining decisions. While several LLM-based approaches offer explainability, they suffer from coarse-grained analyses and dependency on labor-intensive annotations. This paper introduces RAIDX (Retrieval-Augmented Image Deepfake Detection and Explainability), a novel deepfake detection framework integrating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to enhance detection accuracy and decision explainability. Specifically, RAIDX leverages RAG to incorporate external knowledge for improved detection accuracy and employs GRPO to autonomously generate fine-grained textual explanations and saliency maps, eliminating the need for extensive manual annotations. Experiments on multiple benchmarks demonstrate RAIDX's effectiveness in identifying real or fake, and providing interpretable rationales in both textual descriptions and saliency maps, achieving state-of-the-art detection performance while advancing transparency in deepfake identification. RAIDX represents the first unified framework to synergize RAG and GRPO, addressing critical gaps in accuracy and explainability. Our code and models will be publicly available.

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