arXiv Computer Vision September 1, 2026 By Xiaoman Lu, Jiaqi Li, Shuntian Zheng, Huiping Chen, Yu Guan

FairReL: Deepfake Detection using Fairness-Aware Representation Learning

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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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