FakeVLM-R1: Internalizing Physical Laws via CoT for Synthetic Image Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30062v1
• Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 15:13:31 GMT
• Title: FakeVLM-R1: Internalizing Physical Laws via CoT for Synthetic Image Detection
• Abstract summary: We propose FakeVLM-R1, aiming to endow the model with human-like critical thinking capabilities.<n>FakeVLM-R1 achieves high-precision, logically interpretable detection.<n>It also resolves the over-rejection bias of existing methods against real images.
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• Abstract: The development of generative artificial intelligence technologies has propelled the visual realism of synthetic images to an unprecedented level. Although current interpretable detection methods based on Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have made certain progress, they still rely on imitation learning derived from massive volumes of forged data. Consequently, they lack genuine causal reasoning capabilities and are prone to explanatory hallucinations. To overcome this bottleneck, we propose FakeVLM-R1, aiming to endow the model with human-like critical thinking capabilities when performing synthetic detection tasks. Building upon Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), this framework integrates Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) with a Critical Thinking Chain-of-Thought (CoT) mechanism. During the inference phase, the model executes a "bidirectional dialectical reasoning" process: while proposing a forgery hypothesis, it must simultaneously invoke physical commonsense to construct an authenticity counter-proof. Furthermore, we constructed the FakeClue++ dataset with high-quality samples, which extensively introduces annotations guided by the physical laws of authentic images, providing a unified authenticity anchor for the model. Experiments confirm that FakeVLM-R1 achieves SOTA performance the evaluated models across multiple benchmarks. It not only achieves high-precision, logically interpretable detection but also resolves the over-rejection bias of existing methods against real images, demonstrating generalization and robustness against perturbations.

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