This approach ensured real and AI-generated images were as similar as possible, differing only in their origin.
The three models were then distilled into a small ViT model with 11.8 Million Parameters, combining their learned features for more efficient detection.
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Validation Set: 74% accuracy
- Held out from training data to assess generalization
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Custom Real-World Set: 72% accuracy
- Composed of self-captured images and online-sourced images
- Designed to be more representative of internet-based images
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Comparative Analysis:
- Outperformed other popular AI detection models by 5 percentage points on both sets
- Other models achieved 89% and 79% on validation and real-world sets respectively