Veritas++: Value-aware On-Policy Distillation for Perception-Enhanced AIGI Detection

Researchers introduced Veritas++, a perception-enhanced framework for AI-generated image detection.

It uses Perception-oriented Learning to better capture fine details, anomalies, and pixel-level differences.

A Value-aware On-Policy Distillation step then transfers these gains efficiently to the detector.

Tests on standard, in-the-wild, and emerging benchmarks showed stronger generalization while preserving performance.

The goal is to make synthetic-image detection more reliable as AI-generated content spreads online.