@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-aegis, title = "{AEGIS}: A Holistic Benchmark for Evaluating Forensic Analysis of {AI}-Generated Academic Images", author = "Zhang, Bo and Ma, Tzu-Yen and Tang, Zichen and Ding, Junpeng and Wang, Zirui and Zhao, Yizhuo and Gao, Peilin and Xi, Zijie and Ding, Zixin and Sun, Haiyang and Gao, Haocheng and Liu, Yuan and Wang, Liangjia and Huang, Yiling and Wang, Yujie and Zhang, Yuyue and Xi, Ronghui and Li, Yuanze and Liu, Jiacheng and Yang, Zhongjun and E, Haihong", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-long.976/", pages = "21327--21363", ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6" }