Scaling Up AI-Generated Image Detection via Generator-Aware Prototypes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12982v1
• Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 04:58:08 GMT
• Title: Scaling Up AI-Generated Image Detection via Generator-Aware Prototypes
• Authors: Ziheng Qin, Yuheng Ji, Renshuai Tao, Yuxuan Tian, Yuyang Liu, Yipu Wang, Xiaolong Zheng,
• Abstract summary: Generator-Aware Prototype Learning (GAPL) is a framework that constrains representation with a structured learning paradigm.<n>GAPL achieves state-of-the-art performance, showing superior detection accuracy across a wide variety of GAN and diffusion-based generators.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The pursuit of a universal AI-generated image (AIGI) detector often relies on aggregating data from numerous generators to improve generalization. However, this paper identifies a paradoxical phenomenon we term the Benefit then Conflict dilemma, where detector performance stagnates and eventually degrades as source diversity expands. Our systematic analysis, diagnoses this failure by identifying two core issues: severe data-level heterogeneity, which causes the feature distributions of real and synthetic images to increasingly overlap, and a critical model-level bottleneck from fixed, pretrained encoders that cannot adapt to the rising complexity. To address these challenges, we propose Generator-Aware Prototype Learning (GAPL), a framework that constrain representation with a structured learning paradigm. GAPL learns a compact set of canonical forgery prototypes to create a unified, low-variance feature space, effectively countering data heterogeneity.To resolve the model bottleneck, it employs a two-stage training scheme with Low-Rank Adaptation, enhancing its discriminative power while preserving valuable pretrained knowledge. This approach establishes a more robust and generalizable decision boundary. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that GAPL achieves state-of-the-art performance, showing superior detection accuracy across a wide variety of GAN and diffusion-based generators. Code is available at https://github.com/UltraCapture/GAPL

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