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Exons-Detect: Identifying and Amplifying Exonic Tokens via Hidden-State Discrepancy for Robust AI-Generated Text Detection

Xiaowei Zhu, Yubing Ren, Fang Fang, Shi Wang, Yanan Cao, Li Guo · Mar 26, 2026 · Citations: 0

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Abstract

The rapid advancement of large language models has increasingly blurred the boundary between human-written and AI-generated text, raising societal risks such as misinformation dissemination, authorship ambiguity, and threats to intellectual property rights. These concerns highlight the urgent need for effective and reliable detection methods. While existing training-free approaches often achieve strong performance by aggregating token-level signals into a global score, they typically assume uniform token contributions, making them less robust under short sequences or localized token modifications. To address these limitations, we propose Exons-Detect, a training-free method for AI-generated text detection based on an exon-aware token reweighting perspective. Exons-Detect identifies and amplifies informative exonic tokens by measuring hidden-state discrepancy under a dual-model setting, and computes an interpretable translation score from the resulting importance-weighted token sequence. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that Exons-Detect achieves state-of-the-art detection performance and exhibits strong robustness to adversarial attacks and varying input lengths. In particular, it attains a 2.2\% relative improvement in average AUROC over the strongest prior baseline on DetectRL.

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Usefulness score

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Evaluation Signal

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Human Feedback Types

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"The rapid advancement of large language models has increasingly blurred the boundary between human-written and AI-generated text, raising societal risks such as misinformation dissemination, authorship ambiguity, and threats to intellectual property rights."

Evaluation Modes

partial

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"The rapid advancement of large language models has increasingly blurred the boundary between human-written and AI-generated text, raising societal risks such as misinformation dissemination, authorship ambiguity, and threats to intellectual property rights."

Quality Controls

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"The rapid advancement of large language models has increasingly blurred the boundary between human-written and AI-generated text, raising societal risks such as misinformation dissemination, authorship ambiguity, and threats to intellectual property rights."

Benchmarks / Datasets

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"The rapid advancement of large language models has increasingly blurred the boundary between human-written and AI-generated text, raising societal risks such as misinformation dissemination, authorship ambiguity, and threats to intellectual property rights."

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"In particular, it attains a 2.2\% relative improvement in average AUROC over the strongest prior baseline on DetectRL."

Human Feedback Details

  • Uses human feedback: No
  • Feedback types: None
  • Rater population: Not reported
  • Unit of annotation: Scalar (inferred)
  • Expertise required: Multilingual

Evaluation Details

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  • Agentic eval: None
  • Quality controls: Not reported
  • Evidence quality: Low
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Protocol And Measurement Signals

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No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported Metrics

auroc

Research Brief

Metadata summary

The rapid advancement of large language models has increasingly blurred the boundary between human-written and AI-generated text, raising societal risks such as misinformation dissemination, authorship ambiguity, and threats to intellectual property rights.

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Key Takeaways

  • The rapid advancement of large language models has increasingly blurred the boundary between human-written and AI-generated text, raising societal risks such as misinformation dissemination, authorship ambiguity, and threats to intellectual property rights.
  • These concerns highlight the urgent need for effective and reliable detection methods.
  • While existing training-free approaches often achieve strong performance by aggregating token-level signals into a global score, they typically assume uniform token contributions, making them less robust under short sequences or localized token modifications.

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Contribution Summary

  • The rapid advancement of large language models has increasingly blurred the boundary between human-written and AI-generated text, raising societal risks such as misinformation dissemination, authorship ambiguity, and threats to intellectual…
  • To address these limitations, we propose Exons-Detect, a training-free method for AI-generated text detection based on an exon-aware token reweighting perspective.
  • Empirical evaluations demonstrate that Exons-Detect achieves state-of-the-art detection performance and exhibits strong robustness to adversarial attacks and varying input lengths.

Why It Matters For Eval

  • The rapid advancement of large language models has increasingly blurred the boundary between human-written and AI-generated text, raising societal risks such as misinformation dissemination, authorship ambiguity, and threats to intellectual…
  • Empirical evaluations demonstrate that Exons-Detect achieves state-of-the-art detection performance and exhibits strong robustness to adversarial attacks and varying input lengths.

Researcher Checklist

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  • Pass: Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

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