arXiv:2508.01754cs.CL2025-08被引 1

发现AI生成文本存在时间非平稳性,提出保留位置信息的检测新方法。

AI-Generated Text is Non-Stationary: Detection via Temporal Tomography

  • 将文本检测视为信号处理问题,用小波变换捕捉异常的位置与尺度。
  • 在RAID上达到0.855 AUROC,比最优基线提升7.1%。
  • 对局部扰动攻击鲁棒性强,适合高安全性场景使用。

AI生成文本检测从监督分类演变为零样本统计分析,但现有方法将词元级测量聚合为标量分数,丢失了异常发生的位置信息。实证分析表明,AI生成文本的非平稳性显著,不同文本段间统计特性差异比人类写作高出73.8%。这解释了为何现有检测器在应对局部对抗性扰动时失效。本文提出时间差分断层成像(TDT),将词元级差异视为时序信号,采用连续小波变换生成二维时空表示,同时捕捉异常的位置与语言尺度。在RAID基准测试中,TDT达到0.855 AUROC,较最佳基线提升7.1%;在HART Level 2改写攻击下,AUROC提升14.1%。尽管分析复杂,计算开销仅增加13%。本工作确立非平稳性为AI生成文本的基本特征,证明保留时间动态对鲁棒检测至关重要。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The field of AI-generated text detection has evolved from supervised classification to zero-shot statistical analysis. However, current approaches share a fundamental limitation: they aggregate token-level measurements into scalar scores, discarding positional information about where anomalies occur. Our empirical analysis reveals that AI-generated text exhibits significant non-stationarity, statistical properties vary by 73.8\% more between text segments compared to human writing. This discovery explains why existing detectors fail against localized adversarial perturbations that exploit this overlooked characteristic. We introduce Temporal Discrepancy Tomography (TDT), a novel detection paradigm that preserves positional information by reformulating detection as a signal processing task. TDT treats token-level discrepancies as a time-series signal and applies Continuous Wavelet Transform to generate a two-dimensional time-scale representation, capturing both the location and linguistic scale of statistical anomalies. On the RAID benchmark, TDT achieves 0.855 AUROC (7.1\% improvement over the best baseline). More importantly, TDT demonstrates robust performance on adversarial tasks, with 14.1\% AUROC improvement on HART Level 2 paraphrasing attacks. Despite its sophisticated analysis, TDT maintains practical efficiency with only 13\% computational overhead. Our work establishes non-stationarity as a fundamental characteristic of AI-generated text and demonstrates that preserving temporal dynamics is essential for robust detection.

文本检测非平稳性小波变换对抗攻击

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