Hugging Face Trending Papers

Robustness of AI-Art Detectors under Generator Shift

Text-to-image generative models have advanced rapidly, with modern Diffusion Transformer architectures producing images that are increasingly difficult to distinguish from human-created artwork. This development has raised significant concerns regarding copyright protection, misinformation, fraud, impersonation, and the authenticity of digital content.

arXiv AI
Jun 10

Bypassing Copyright Protection in Diffusion-based Customization via Two-Stage Latent Feature Optimization

arXiv:2606. 09909v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the growing concerns over copyright infringement in diffusion-based customization, adversarial attacks have emerged as a prominent defense strategy to prevent malicious content forgery in personalized image generation.

By Ziang Xu, Wenbo Yu, Hongyao Yu, Hao Fang, Jiawei Kong, Bin Chen, Hao Wu, Shu-Tao Xia, Zhiyong Wu
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

ASAP: Visual Analytics for Identifying and Analyzing Image Patterns in AI-generated Images

ASAP is an interactive visualization system that helps users identify and analyze deceptive patterns in AI‑generated images. It uses a CLIP‑adapted image encoder to produce interpretable representations and generates masks that highlight influential pixel regions, enabling influence measurement of key deceptive features. The system integrates these techniques into a dashboard for quantifying authenticity‑indicative patterns across collections of authentic and AI‑generated images, supporting comparative analysis of different generative models such as GANs and diffusion models, and its effectiveness is demonstrated through a user study and benchmark applications.

By Jinbin Huang, Yuki Ueno, Chen Chen, Aditi Mishra, Bum Chul Kwon, Zhicheng Liu, Chris Bryan
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

TIGA: Trajectory-Injected Generative Attack against Black-box AIGC Detectors

The paper introduces TIGA, a source‑image‑free, training‑free attack that injects adversarial properties into a diffusion model’s sampling trajectory to evade black‑box AIGC forensic detectors. TIGA aggregates gradients from white‑box surrogate detectors to create a transferable prior, then uses anisotropic directional search with finite‑difference queries to estimate and stabilize directions for the DDIM trajectory, applying frequency‑domain reshaping to reduce artifacts. Experiments demonstrate strong black‑box attack performance, transferability, and robustness to post‑processing while maintaining high perceptual quality.

By Xia Du, Zhuosen Bao, Zheng Lin, Jizhe Zhou, Chi-man Pun, Jun Luo, Symeon Chatzinotas
arXiv AI
Sep 16

CLIP Embeddings for AI-Generated Image Detection: A Few-Shot Study with Lightweight Classifier

The paper explores whether CLIP embeddings can detect AI-generated images by using a frozen CLIP model to extract visual embeddings and training lightweight classifiers on top. On the CIFAKE benchmark, the approach achieves 95% accuracy without language reasoning, and 85% accuracy after few-shot adaptation with 20% of the data. Certain image types, such as wide-angle photographs and oil paintings, remain challenging, highlighting unexplored difficulties in AI-generated image classification.

By Ziyang Ou
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 15

Abstract-LoRA: Unlocking Single-Image Style Transfer through Targeted U-Net Block Training

Abstract‑LoRA introduces a lightweight LoRA training approach that targets specific U‑Net blocks in diffusion models to improve single‑image style transfer. By refining block selection, adding more blocks, and using clustering‑based style abstraction, it better disentangles and balances style and content compared to prior methods like B‑LoRA. Experiments show that the method produces more harmonious artistic images while quantitatively preserving both style and content.

By Xinglin Hu
arXiv AI
Aug 14

SPARED: Reasoning-Based AI-Generated Image Detection via Adversarially Edited Data

arXiv:2608. 12876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Detecting AI-generated images is only half the task: a deployed detector must also justify its verdict, yet existing detectors inherit three failure modes from their training data: real and fake images collected from different sources invite provenance shortcuts, supervised explanation corpora teach templated rationales, and a static forgery corpus leaves the decision boundary standing still while generators keep moving.

By Yicheng Bao, Xiahui Guo, Xuhong Wang, Xin Tan