Domain-Assisted Few-Shot Linguistic Steganalysis in Imbalanced Class Scenarios

Abstract

Linguistic steganalysis aims to distinguish stego text from cover text. However, most existing methods heavily rely on a large number of stego text samples for training. In real-world scenarios, the cover text is far more abundant than the stego text, making it extremely difficult to obtain sufficient stego text for training. Furthermore, the scarcity of stego text also increases the difficulty of detection, posing greater challenges for steganalysis. In contrast, cover text is relatively easier to obtain in real-world scenarios, but current methods fail to fully utilize this resource. In this paper, we propose a Domain-Assisted Few-shot linguistic steganalysis method called DAF-Stega. To make full use of the cover text, we incorporate cover texts from multiple domains to assist in training. To address the scarcity of stego texts, we perform few-shot steganalysis based on a small amount of stego text and employ dynamic decision-making to generate pseudo-labels for self-training, enhancing model performance. Experimental results show that in few-shot learning scenarios, DAF-Stega effectively addresses the steganalysis problem under uncertain stego text proportions and outperforms existing methods.