新大模型出现时,能持续识别生成源且不遗忘旧模型。
When New Generators Arrive: Lifelong Machine-Generated Text Attribution via Ridge Feature Transfer

- 用统计量存每类首次出现时特征,闭式更新不需重训。
- 跨领域测试中宏平均F1最优,新旧模型识别都更稳定。
- 适合需要长期追踪生成模型的平台和安全检测场景。
机器生成文本溯源旨在识别特定文本所属的生成模型,为模型责任追究和滥用调查提供细粒度证据。随着新大语言模型持续涌现,溯源模型需不断纳入新生成器,同时保持对已有生成器的识别能力。现有方法在持续学习中常难以平衡适应新类别与保留旧类别之间的关系。为此,我们提出RidgeFT,一种轻量级解析更新框架,无需样本回放。RidgeFT在初始生成器集合上训练任务感知编码器,首次观察到每个生成器类别时存储紧凑的类级充分统计量,并冻结编码器以实现免回放的闭式更新。通过协方差校准抑制无关变异,利用固定随机特征提升表示能力,并基于类级充分统计量进行闭式岭回归更新新类别。在多主题、不同初始设置的评估中,RidgeFT始终优于基线方法,在不同领域、主干网络和增量协议下均取得最佳宏平均F1,同时显著提升旧类别保留与新类别适应能力。结果表明,特征稳定的解析更新为持续机器生成文本溯源提供了简单而有效的解决方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Machine-generated text (MGT) attribution aims to identify the specific generator responsible for a given text, thereby providing fine-grained evidence for model accountability and misuse investigation. As new large language models continue to emerge, attribution models must continuously incorporate new generators while preserving their ability to recognize previously seen ones. Prior works have shown that this lifelong MGT attribution setting is challenging, and existing methods often struggle to achieve a stable balance between adapting to new classes and retaining old ones. To address this issue, we propose RidgeFT, a lightweight analytic update framework that does not rely on exemplar replay. RidgeFT trains a task-aware encoder on the initial generator set, stores compact class-wise sufficient statistics when each generator class is first observed, and then freezes the encoder for replay-free closed-form updates. It then suppresses generator-irrelevant variation through covariance calibration, improves representation capacity with fixed random features, and updates new classes through closed-form ridge regression based on class-level sufficient statistics. Across multi-topic evaluations with varying initial generator setups, RidgeFT consistently outperforms baselines. It achieves the best macro-F1 across domains, backbones, and incremental protocols, while also improving both old-class retention and new-class adaptation. These results suggest that feature-stable analytic updates provide a simple yet effective approach to lifelong MGT attribution.
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