Richa Alagh


2025

We describe the work carried out by our team, AI-Monitors, on the Binary Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection (Human vs. Machine) task at COLING 2025. This task aims to determine whether a given text is generated by a machine or authored by a human. We propose a lightweight, simple, and scalable approach using encoder models such as RoBERTa and XLM-R We provide an in-depth analysis based on our experiments. Our study found that carefully exploring fine-tuned parameters such as i) no. of training epochs, ii) maximum input size, iii) handling class imbalance etc., plays an important role in building an effective system to achieve good results and can significantly impact the underlying tasks. We found the optimum setting of these parameters can lead to a difference of about 5-6% in absolute terms for measure such as accuracy and F1 measure. The paper presents crucial insights into optimal parameter selection for fine-tuning RoBERTa and XLM-R based models to detect whether a given text is generated by a machine or a human.