ResearchResearch paperComputer Vision · Efficiency & Inference · Interpretability1 source · Oct 8, 2026

EvoKnow: Continual Knowledge Evolution for AI-Generated Image Detection

We propose EvoKnow, a replay-free framework that formulates continual AI-generated image detection as forensic knowledge evolution.

Key points

  • AI-generated image detectors are commonly trained on fixed generator domains and become difficult to maintain as new generative models emerge.
  • Continual adaptation is challenging because replaying historical generated images is costly, whereas updating shared parameters with limited current-domain data can overwrite prior forensic knowledge.
  • EvoKnow preserves a shared forensic basis learned from base domains, incrementally adds isolated residual experts for complementary generator-relevant evidence, and retrieves expertise through an Analytical Incremental Router (AIR) updated in closed form from current-stage generated images and accumulated sufficient statistics.
  • Experiments demonstrate effective cross-generator generalization, few-shot expansion, and long-horizon continual adaptation.

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  • [1]EvoKnow: Continual Knowledge Evolution for AI-Generated Image Detection
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 8, 07:12 AM
    We propose EvoKnow, a replay-free framework that formulates continual AI-generated image detection as forensic knowledge evolution.
    AI-generated image detectors are commonly trained on fixed generator domains and become difficult to maintain as new generative models emerge.

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