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title = "{HCMUS}{\_}{T}he{F}angs at {A}bjad{G}en{E}val Shared Task: Weighted Layer Pooling with Attention Fusion for {A}rabic {AI}-Generated Text Detection",
author = "Dao Sy, Duy Minh and
Tran, Nguyen Chi and
Huynh, Trung Kiet and
Quy, Nguyen Lam Phu and
Phu Hoa, Pham and
Duong, Nguyen Dinh Ha",
editor = "El-Haj, Mo and
Rayson, Paul and
Jarrar, Mustafa and
Ezeani, Ignatius and
Ezzini, Saad and
Ahmadi, Sina and
Haddad Haddad, Amal and
Amol, Cynthia and
Abdelali, Ahmad and
Abudalfa, Shadi",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on {NLP} for Languages Using {A}rabic Script",
month = mar,
year = "2026",
address = "Rabat, Morocco",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.abjadnlp-1.51/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2026.abjadnlp-1.51",
pages = "433--437",
abstract = "The rapid advancement of large language mod-els poses significant challenges for content au-thenticity, particularly in under-resourced lan-guages where detection tools remain scarce.We present our winning system for the Abjad-GenEval shared task on Arabic AI-generatedtext detection. Our key insight is that AI-generated text exhibits distinctive patternsacross multiple linguistic levels-from local syn-tax to global semantics-that can be captured bylearning to fuse representations from differenttransformer layers. We introduce aWeightedLayer Poolingmechanism that learns optimallayer combinations, combined withAttentionPoolingfor sequence-level context aggregation.Through systematic experimentation with 15+ approaches, we make a surprising discovery:model architecture selection dominates over so-phisticated training techniques, with DeBERTa-v3 providing +27{\%} relative improvement overAraBERT regardless of training strategy. Oursystem achieves 0.93 F1-score, securing 1st placeamong all participants and outperform-ing the runner-up by 3 absolute points"
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T HCMUS_TheFangs at AbjadGenEval Shared Task: Weighted Layer Pooling with Attention Fusion for Arabic AI-Generated Text Detection
%A Dao Sy, Duy Minh
%A Tran, Nguyen Chi
%A Huynh, Trung Kiet
%A Quy, Nguyen Lam Phu
%A Phu Hoa, Pham
%A Duong, Nguyen Dinh Ha
%Y El-Haj, Mo
%Y Rayson, Paul
%Y Jarrar, Mustafa
%Y Ezeani, Ignatius
%Y Ezzini, Saad
%Y Ahmadi, Sina
%Y Haddad Haddad, Amal
%Y Amol, Cynthia
%Y Abdelali, Ahmad
%Y Abudalfa, Shadi
%S Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script
%D 2026
%8 March
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Rabat, Morocco
%F dao-sy-etal-2026-hcmus-thefangs
%X The rapid advancement of large language mod-els poses significant challenges for content au-thenticity, particularly in under-resourced lan-guages where detection tools remain scarce.We present our winning system for the Abjad-GenEval shared task on Arabic AI-generatedtext detection. Our key insight is that AI-generated text exhibits distinctive patternsacross multiple linguistic levels-from local syn-tax to global semantics-that can be captured bylearning to fuse representations from differenttransformer layers. We introduce aWeightedLayer Poolingmechanism that learns optimallayer combinations, combined withAttentionPoolingfor sequence-level context aggregation.Through systematic experimentation with 15+ approaches, we make a surprising discovery:model architecture selection dominates over so-phisticated training techniques, with DeBERTa-v3 providing +27% relative improvement overAraBERT regardless of training strategy. Oursystem achieves 0.93 F1-score, securing 1st placeamong all participants and outperform-ing the runner-up by 3 absolute points
%R 10.18653/v1/2026.abjadnlp-1.51
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.abjadnlp-1.51/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.abjadnlp-1.51
%P 433-437
Markdown (Informal)
[HCMUS_TheFangs at AbjadGenEval Shared Task: Weighted Layer Pooling with Attention Fusion for Arabic AI-Generated Text Detection](https://aclanthology.org/2026.abjadnlp-1.51/) (Dao Sy et al., AbjadNLP 2026)
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