Chak Fai Li


2025

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BBN-U.Oregon’s ALERT system at GenAI Content Detection Task 3: Robust Authorship Style Representations for Cross-Domain Machine-Generated Text Detection
Hemanth Kandula | Chak Fai Li | Haoling Qiu | Damianos Karakos | Hieu Man | Thien Huu Nguyen | Brian Ulicny
Proceedings of the 1stWorkshop on GenAI Content Detection (GenAIDetect)

This paper presents BBN-U.Oregon’s system, ALERT, submitted to the Shared Task 3: Cross-Domain Machine-Generated Text Detection. Our approach uses robust authorship-style representations to distinguish between human-authored and machine-generated text (MGT) across various domains. We employ an ensemble-based authorship attribution (AA) system that integrates stylistic embeddings from two complementary subsystems: one that focuses on cross-genre robustness with hard positive and negative mining strategies and another that captures nuanced semantic-lexical-authorship contrasts. This combination enhances cross-domain generalization, even under domain shifts and adversarial attacks. Evaluated on the RAID benchmark, our system demonstrates strong performance across genres and decoding strategies, with resilience against adversarial manipulation, achieving 91.8% TPR at FPR=5% on standard test sets and 82.6% on adversarial sets.