EditSleuth: A Dataset of Grounded Reasoning Chains for Image-Edit Forensics
Forensic analysis of AI-edited images requires more than binary real-versus-fake prediction: a useful system should localize the edit, identify its semantic type, and ground its decisions in visual evidence. Existing image-forensics datasets typically emphasize detection or localization, while reasoning-supervised vision-language datasets rarely target image manipulation and often rely on LLM-generated rationales whose faithfulness is difficult to verify. We introduce EditSleuth, a dataset of 257,725 image-edit triplets constructed from existing image-editing corpora for grounded image-edit forensic reasoning. Each example includes an edited image, its source image, a binary edit mask, a 12-class edit taxonomy label, a difficulty score, and a six-step reasoning chain. EditSleuth chains are generated deterministically from triplet-grounded upstream artifacts, with each statement tied to a specific computable source of evidence. Our analysis reveals that a naive four-component difficulty formulation suffers from a rank-2 correlation collapse among magnitude features; a simplified three-component formulation substantially increases score dispersion on both Pico-Banana and MagicBrush. Difficulty also varies meaningfully within most edit categories, indicating that the score is not a proxy for edit type. As an initial learning study, we fine-tune Qwen2-VL-2B with LoRA and find that chain-as-target supervision matches a label-only baseline on classification accuracy among parseable answers, while additionally yielding grounded explanatory prose that label-only supervision cannot produce. We release the dataset, the deterministic construction pipeline, and pilot training scripts.
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