DNA: Dual-stage Native Attribution for Generated Image Source Tracing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13685v1
• Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:27:52 GMT
• Title: DNA: Dual-stage Native Attribution for Generated Image Source Tracing
• Abstract summary: Existing proactive methods rely on watermark embedding or model modification.<n>DNA is a coarse-to-fine framework that follows this hierarchy without additional neural-network training.<n>Experiments show that DNA achieves 89.11% end-to-end attribution accuracy.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The rapid evolution of image generation has produced numerous within-family variants, making source-model attribution of suspect images increasingly important for digital forensics. Existing proactive methods rely on watermark embedding or model modification, which may degrade visual quality and limit deployment flexibility. Passive methods often rely on large-scale supervised training or a single reconstruction signal, limiting their ability to handle unknown sources and distinguish highly similar within-family variants. We observe that attribution signals in latent generative models are naturally stratified across architectural levels: VAE-level cues reflect family-shared information, whereas backbone-level cues capture variant-specific behaviors. Motivated by this insight, we propose Dual-stage Native Attribution (DNA), a coarse-to-fine framework that follows this hierarchy without additional neural-network training. The coarse-grained stage uses Autoencoder Double-Reconstruction (AEDR) for efficient open-set family-level screening. The fine-grained stage performs closed-set model-level attribution with Native Prediction Consistency (NPC), which compares native prediction errors of within-family variants across multiple noise levels under semantic conditioning and attributes the source via normalized calibrated scores. To enable systematic evaluation, we construct DNA-30K, a benchmark for within-family variant attribution under open-set family-level evaluation. It comprises 30,000 images generated by 24 candidate models across six families spanning both denoising diffusion and flow matching, plus non-candidate generated and natural images as unknown sources. Experiments show that DNA achieves 89.11% end-to-end attribution accuracy on a task where random guessing accuracy is below 1% and outperforms the strongest baseline by 33.81% even when AEDR is used as the coarse-grained stage.

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