arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10
Toward Calibrated, Fair, and accurate Deepfake Detection
arXiv:2606. 09881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deepfake detectors show large performance gaps across demographic groups.
FairReL: Deepfake Detection using Fairness-Aware Representation Learning
FairReL is a fairness‑aware representation‑learning framework for deepfake detection that targets two subgroup‑sensitive components: multi‑scale spatial features and fine‑tuning‑induced residual features. It uses an SVD‑decomposed backbone to isolate residuals and introduces Group‑Conditional Wavelet Decorrelation (GCWD) and Subspace‑Localised Mean Alignment (SLMA) losses to suppress subgroup imbalance and align subgroup means. Experiments on FF++, Celeb‑DF, DFD, and DFDC show that FairReL improves unseen‑dataset AUC by 3.9% and reduces subgroup FPR disparity by 10.2% compared to the state‑of‑the‑art fairness‑aware detector.
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