AdaDetectGPT: adaptive detection of LLM-generated text with statistical guarantees

Zhou, Hongyi, Zhu, Jin ORCID: 0000-0001-8550-5822, Su, Pingfan, Ye, Kai, Yang, Ying, Gavioli Akilagun, Shakeel ORCID: 0009-0003-8501-5737 and Shi, Chengchun ORCID: 0000-0001-7773-2099 (2025) AdaDetectGPT: adaptive detection of LLM-generated text with statistical guarantees. In: 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025-11-30 - 2025-12-07. (In Press)

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Abstract

We study the problem of determining whether a piece of text has been authored by a human or by a large language model (LLM). Existing state of the art logits-based detectors make use of statistics derived from the log-probability of the observed text evaluated using the distribution function of a given source LLM. However, relying solely on log probabilities can be sub-optimal. In response, we introduce AdaDetectGPT – a novel classifier that adaptively learns a witness function from training data to enhance the performance of logits-based detectors. We provide statistical guarantees on its true positive rate, false positive rate, true negative rate and false negative rate. Extensive numerical studies show AdaDetectGPT nearly uniformly improves the state-of-the-art method in various combination of datasets and LLMs, and the improvement can reach up to 37%. A python implementation of our method is available at https://github.com/Mamba413/AdaDetectGPT.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Statistics
Date Deposited:	30 Oct 2025 11:03
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2025 13:27
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/130004

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