Summary of Detecting Machine-generated Texts by Multi-population Aware Optimization For Maximum Mean Discrepancy, By Shuhai Zhang et al.
Detecting Machine-Generated Texts by Multi-Population Aware Optimization for Maximum Mean Discrepancy
by Shuhai Zhang, Yiliao Song, Jiahao Yang, Yuanqing Li, Bo Han, Mingkui Tan
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Feb 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 paper tackles the challenge of detecting machine-generated texts (MGTs) in various situations. Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have achieved remarkable performance in generating human-like texts, but this raises concerns about plagiarism, misleading information, and hallucination issues. To address this issue, the authors propose exploiting maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) to identify distributional discrepancies between MGTs and human-written texts. However, they recognize that directly training a detector with MMD using diverse MGTs would incur increased variance due to multiple text populations from various LLMs. To overcome this, they introduce a novel multi-population aware optimization method for MMD called MMD-MP, which can avoid variance increases and improve the stability of measuring distributional discrepancies. The authors develop two detection methods based on paragraph-based and sentence-based approaches and demonstrate superior performance in experiments using GPT2 and ChatGPT. The proposed approach has significant implications for identifying and mitigating risks associated with MGTs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about finding a way to tell the difference between texts written by humans and those generated by computers, like chatbots. These computer-generated texts can be very good at sounding like they were written by humans, but that makes it hard to figure out whether someone wrote something or just copied it from a machine. The authors use a special technique called maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) to try to spot the differences between human-written and computer-generated texts. They found that this method works better when it’s trained on a variety of different computer-generated texts, rather than just one type. This could be important for preventing people from copying or misusing information generated by machines. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Hallucination * Optimization
