REVEAL: Reasoning-Enhanced Forensic Evidence Analysis for Explainable AI-Generated Image Detection

ArXi:2511.23158v2 Announce Type: replace The rapid progress of visual generative models has made AI-generated images increasingly difficult to distinguish from authentic ones, posing growing risks to social trust and information integrity. This motivates detectors that are not only accurate but also forensically explainable. While recent multimodal approaches improve interpretability, many rely on post-hoc rationalizations or coarse visual cues, without constructing verifiable chains of evidence, thus often leading to poor generalization. We.