LiteUpdate: A Lightweight Framework for Updating AI-Generated Image Detectors

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Auteurs principaux: Lu, Jiajie, Fu, Zhenkan, Zhao, Na, Xing, Long, Chen, Kejiang, Zhang, Weiming, Yu, Nenghai
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author Lu, Jiajie
Fu, Zhenkan
Zhao, Na
Xing, Long
Chen, Kejiang
Zhang, Weiming
Yu, Nenghai
author_facet Lu, Jiajie
Fu, Zhenkan
Zhao, Na
Xing, Long
Chen, Kejiang
Zhang, Weiming
Yu, Nenghai
contents The rapid progress of generative AI has led to the emergence of new generative models, while existing detection methods struggle to keep pace, resulting in significant degradation in the detection performance. This highlights the urgent need for continuously updating AI-generated image detectors to adapt to new generators. To overcome low efficiency and catastrophic forgetting in detector updates, we propose LiteUpdate, a lightweight framework for updating AI-generated image detectors. LiteUpdate employs a representative sample selection module that leverages image confidence and gradient-based discriminative features to precisely select boundary samples. This approach improves learning and detection accuracy on new distributions with limited generated images, significantly enhancing detector update efficiency. Additionally, LiteUpdate incorporates a model merging module that fuses weights from multiple fine-tuning trajectories, including pre-trained, representative, and random updates. This balances the adaptability to new generators and mitigates the catastrophic forgetting of prior knowledge. Experiments demonstrate that LiteUpdate substantially boosts detection performance in various detectors. Specifically, on AIDE, the average detection accuracy on Midjourney improved from 87.63% to 93.03%, a 6.16% relative increase.
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spellingShingle LiteUpdate: A Lightweight Framework for Updating AI-Generated Image Detectors
Lu, Jiajie
Fu, Zhenkan
Zhao, Na
Xing, Long
Chen, Kejiang
Zhang, Weiming
Yu, Nenghai
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Cryptography and Security
The rapid progress of generative AI has led to the emergence of new generative models, while existing detection methods struggle to keep pace, resulting in significant degradation in the detection performance. This highlights the urgent need for continuously updating AI-generated image detectors to adapt to new generators. To overcome low efficiency and catastrophic forgetting in detector updates, we propose LiteUpdate, a lightweight framework for updating AI-generated image detectors. LiteUpdate employs a representative sample selection module that leverages image confidence and gradient-based discriminative features to precisely select boundary samples. This approach improves learning and detection accuracy on new distributions with limited generated images, significantly enhancing detector update efficiency. Additionally, LiteUpdate incorporates a model merging module that fuses weights from multiple fine-tuning trajectories, including pre-trained, representative, and random updates. This balances the adaptability to new generators and mitigates the catastrophic forgetting of prior knowledge. Experiments demonstrate that LiteUpdate substantially boosts detection performance in various detectors. Specifically, on AIDE, the average detection accuracy on Midjourney improved from 87.63% to 93.03%, a 6.16% relative increase.
title LiteUpdate: A Lightweight Framework for Updating AI-Generated Image Detectors
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07192