Summary of Dald: Improving Logits-based Detector Without Logits From Black-box Llms, by Cong Zeng et al.
DALD: Improving Logits-based Detector without Logits from Black-box LLMs
by Cong Zeng, Shengkun Tang, Xianjun Yang, Yuanzhou Chen, Yiyou Sun, zhiqiang xu, Yao Li, Haifeng Chen, Wei Cheng, Dongkuan Xu
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper presents a new framework for detecting Large Language Models (LLMs) in text generation tasks. The rise of LLMs has blurred the lines between machine- and human-written text, making it challenging to distinguish one from the other. Traditional detection methods rely on surrogate models but struggle when the exact logits are unavailable, leading to performance degradation. To address these limitations, the authors propose Distribution-Aligned LLMs Detection (DALD), which aligns the surrogate model’s distribution with that of unknown target LLMs. DALD is designed to improve detection capability and resilience against rapid model iterations with minimal training investment. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research paper helps us understand how to tell if a piece of writing was written by a machine or a person. With machines getting better at writing, it’s hard to know the difference anymore. Right now, we have ways to detect this, but they don’t work as well when we don’t know what kind of machine wrote the text. To fix this, scientists came up with a new way called DALD (Distribution-Aligned LLMs Detection). It helps us figure out if writing is from a known or unknown machine model by matching the patterns in the writing to the patterns of the machine that wrote it. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Logits » Text generation
