Unveiling Deepfakes with Latent Diffusion Counterfactual Explanations

Deepfake technology, driven by deep learning, produces highly convincing synthetic media, raising concerns about misuse. While DeepFake detection models have achieved impressive accuracy, but due to the difficulty of distinguishing fake from real, interpretability remains challenging that humans cannot understand or trust the detection results. We propose a novel approach to enhance interpretability by generating counterfactual explanations. By integrating ensemble classifier loss and text instructions into the fine-tuning of a Latent Diffusion Model, our method effectively improves the quality and efficiency of generated counterfactual explanations. Experiments on DeepFake datasets validate the effectiveness of our approach, contributing the interpretability of Deepfake detection.

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2025-03-12
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https://doi.org/10.1109/icassp49660.2025.10890239
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Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
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Unveiling Deepfakes with Latent Diffusion Counterfactual Explanations

Jing Dong, Bo Peng, Chen Yang, Xiaoyu Zhang
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
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Unveiling Deepfakes with Latent Diffusion Counterfactual Explanations

Jing Dong, Bo Peng, Chen Yang, Xiaoyu Zhang
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Abstract

Deepfake technology, driven by deep learning, produces highly convincing synthetic media, raising concerns about misuse. While DeepFake detection models have achieved impressive accuracy, but due to the difficulty of distinguishing fake from real, interpretability remains challenging that humans cannot understand or trust the detection results. We propose a novel approach to enhance interpretability by generating counterfactual explanations. By integrating ensemble classifier loss and text instructions into the fine-tuning of a Latent Diffusion Model, our method effectively improves the quality and efficiency of generated counterfactual explanations. Experiments on DeepFake datasets validate the effectiveness of our approach, contributing the interpretability of Deepfake detection.

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN), Institute of Information Engineering (CN)
National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key Research and Development Program of China
Openalex Percentile: Top 98%
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
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