Sergey Yakubson
Author directory2026
LLMTrace: A Corpus for Classification and Fine-Grained Localization of AI-Written Text
Irina Tolstykh | Aleksandra Tsybina | Sergey Yakubson | Maksim Kuprashevich
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Irina Tolstykh | Aleksandra Tsybina | Sergey Yakubson | Maksim Kuprashevich
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
The widespread use of human-like text from Large Language Models (LLMs) necessitates the development of robust detection systems. However, progress is limited by a critical lack of suitable training data; existing datasets are often generated with outdated models, are predominantly in English, and fail to address the increasingly common scenario of mixed human-AI authorship. Crucially, while some datasets address mixed authorship, none provide the character-level annotations required for the precise localization of AI-generated segments within a text. To address these gaps, we introduce LLMTrace, a new large-scale, bilingual (English and Russian) corpus for AI-generated text detection. Constructed using a diverse range of modern proprietary and open-source LLMs, our dataset is designed to support two key tasks: traditional full-text binary classification (human vs. AI) and AI-generated interval detection, facilitated by character-level annotations. We believe LLMTrace will serve as a vital resource for training and evaluating the next generation of more nuanced and practical AI detection models.
GigaCheck: Detecting LLM-generated Content via Object-Centric Span Localization
Irina Tolstykh | Aleksandra Tsybina | Sergey Yakubson | Aleksandr Gordeev | Vladimir Dokholyan | Maksim Kuprashevich
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Irina Tolstykh | Aleksandra Tsybina | Sergey Yakubson | Aleksandr Gordeev | Vladimir Dokholyan | Maksim Kuprashevich
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
With the increasing quality and spread of LLM assistants, the amount of generated content is growing rapidly. In many cases and tasks, such texts are already indistinguishable from those written by humans, and the quality of generation continues to increase. At the same time, detection methods are advancing more slowly than generation models, making it challenging to prevent misuse of generative AI technologies. We propose GigaCheck, a dual-strategy framework for AI-generated text detection. At the document level, we leverage the representation learning of fine-tuned LLMs to discern authorship with high data efficiency. At the span level, we introduce a novel structural adaptation that treats generated text segments as “objects.” By integrating a DETR-like vision model with linguistic encoders, we achieve precise localization of AI intervals, effectively transferring the robustness of visual object detection to the textual domain. Experimental results across three classification and three localization benchmarks confirm the robustness of our approach. The shared fine-tuned backbone delivers strong accuracy in both scenarios, highlighting the generalization power of the learned embeddings. Moreover, we successfully demonstrate that visual detection architectures like DETR are not limited to pixel space, effectively generalizing to the localization of generated text spans. To ensure reproducibility and foster further research, we publicly release our source code.