UniGADD: Universal Generator-Agnostic Deepfake Detector

Bernard Tomczyk, Agil Aghasanli, Plamen Angelov

In this paper, we introduce Universal Generator-Agnostic Deepfake Detector (UniGADD), a novel method that employs supervised learning to achieve high accuracy on known deepfake generators, while maintaining robust performance on previously unseen ones. The proposed approach follows a two-stage optimisation process. In the first stage, a contrastive loss encourages the model to learn discriminative feature embeddings from real and known fake images, resulting in strong performance within the training domain. In the second stage, the embedding space is refined by promoting inter-cluster separation and intra-cluster compactness, applied exclusively to real samples. This refinement enhances generalisability, enabling the method to exhibit improved robustness against unseen deepfake generation techniques. UniGADD achieves accuracy on par with state-of-the-art methods for known generators, while significantly outperforming them on unseen cases, demonstrating its scalability and practical applicability for adversarial content detection.