PairCLIP‑SWA is a single‑backbone deepfake detector that fine‑tunes an OpenCLIP ViT‑L/14 visual tower using a class‑balanced corpus created by CLIP‑similarity‑guided subsampling and then applies stochastic weight averaging over the fine‑tuning trajectory. Trained on the IEEE SP Cup 2025 (DF‑Wild‑Cup) benchmark, the weight‑averaged model achieves 97.04 % accuracy, 98.64 % AU‑ROC and a 4.07 % equal error rate—outperforming the best published three‑backbone ensemble. The study shows that averaging stabilizes validation performance, prevents misranking on disjoint test sets, and that CLIP pre‑training, rather than ensembling, is the key driver of accuracy.
By Md. Nakib, Sudipto Sarkar, A. J. A. Jubayer Talukder, Mohammad Ariful Haque
The paper introduces SphereTrust, a method that uses frozen self‑supervised hyperspherical features to evaluate and rank candidate masks produced by foundation segmenters like SAM. By measuring angular contrast, foreground coverage, and image‑frame contact, SphereTrust can select high‑quality masks in 0.55 s per image and outperforms existing baselines on multiple segmentation tasks. The selected masks are then used as priors to train student models, improving performance on several benchmark datasets.
By Xinge Guo, Fengyang Xiao, Dingming Zhang, Yuhan Chen, Rihan Zhang, Xingjian Li, Tianyang Wang, Chunming He, Sina Farsiu
arXiv:2606. 08123v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Model selection for safety-relevant visual recognition is often based on clean aggregate performance, although robustness, transfer, embedded latency, and explanation faithfulness may produce different preferences.
By Ruben Dario Florez-Zela
arXiv:2610.33063v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Deployed vision models auto-accept confident predictions, so high-confidence errors propagate silently. Maximum Softmax Probability (MSP), the standa...
By Wonseok Shin, Songkuk Kim
arXiv:2609.27988v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Methods operating on Vision Transformer (ViT) feature spaces typically rely on Euclidean distance or cosine similarity. This assumes that every direc...
By Andrew Bond, Ege Erdem \"Ozl\"u, Tuna \c{C}imen, Ilkin Umut Melanlioglu, Tolga Birdal, Erkut Erdem, Aykut Erdem
arXiv:2606. 04364v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Concept bottleneck models (CBMs) predict a layer of human-named attributes before predicting a class, which makes their decisions auditable.
By Dhanesh Ramachandram