Prior-Conditioned Gaussian Discriminants for Generalizable AI-generated Image Detection
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arXiv:2608.18523v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion-based generators have made synthetic images ubiquitous, but detectors often fail under simultaneous shifts in generator, prompt/style, and source-domain. We study AI-generated image detection as a transfer system described by training prior, frozen encoder feature space, and decision rule, and ask when classifier head training adds value beyond what is already separable in modern features. As a controlled diagnostic, we fit a prior-conditioned Gaussian discriminant ladder: closed-form heads built from first- and second-order feature s
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.18523v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion-based generators have made synthetic images ubiquitous, but detectors often fail under simultaneous shifts in generator, prompt/style, and source-domain.
- We study AI-generated image detection as a transfer system described by training prior, frozen encoder feature space, and decision rule, and ask when classifier head training adds value beyond what is already separable in modern features.
- As a controlled diagnostic, we fit a prior-conditioned Gaussian discriminant ladder: closed-form heads built from first- and second-order feature s
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