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Main Authors: Dubois, Matthieu, Yvon, François, Piantanida, Pablo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07615
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author Dubois, Matthieu
Yvon, François
Piantanida, Pablo
author_facet Dubois, Matthieu
Yvon, François
Piantanida, Pablo
contents The dissemination of Large Language Models (LLMs), trained at scale, and endowed with powerful text-generating abilities, has made it easier for all to produce harmful, toxic, faked or forged content. In response, various proposals have been made to automatically discriminate artificially generated from human-written texts, typically framing the problem as a binary classification problem. Early approaches evaluate an input document with a well-chosen detector LLM, assuming that low-perplexity scores reliably signal machine-made content. More recent systems instead consider two LLMs and compare their probability distributions over the document to further discriminate when perplexity alone cannot. However, using a fixed pair of models can induce brittleness in performance. We extend these approaches to the ensembling of several LLMs and derive a new, theoretically grounded approach to combine their respective strengths. Our experiments, conducted with various generator LLMs, indicate that this approach effectively leverages the strengths of each model, resulting in robust detection performance across multiple domains. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/BaggerOfWords/MOSAIC .
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spellingShingle MOSAIC: Multiple Observers Spotting AI Content
Dubois, Matthieu
Yvon, François
Piantanida, Pablo
Computation and Language
The dissemination of Large Language Models (LLMs), trained at scale, and endowed with powerful text-generating abilities, has made it easier for all to produce harmful, toxic, faked or forged content. In response, various proposals have been made to automatically discriminate artificially generated from human-written texts, typically framing the problem as a binary classification problem. Early approaches evaluate an input document with a well-chosen detector LLM, assuming that low-perplexity scores reliably signal machine-made content. More recent systems instead consider two LLMs and compare their probability distributions over the document to further discriminate when perplexity alone cannot. However, using a fixed pair of models can induce brittleness in performance. We extend these approaches to the ensembling of several LLMs and derive a new, theoretically grounded approach to combine their respective strengths. Our experiments, conducted with various generator LLMs, indicate that this approach effectively leverages the strengths of each model, resulting in robust detection performance across multiple domains. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/BaggerOfWords/MOSAIC .
title MOSAIC: Multiple Observers Spotting AI Content
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07615