SYSUpporter at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Leveraging Stylistic Signals and Language-Aware Truncation for Machine-Generated Code Detection

Longfeng Chen, Zheng Xiao


Abstract
This paper describes our system for SemEval-2026 Task 13 Subtask B, which requires attributing source code to either a human author or one of 10 LLM families. Guided by dataset analysis, we identify three practical challenges: formatting fingerprints discarded by tokenizers, heterogeneous code lengths, and extreme class imbalance. We build on unixcoder-base with Explicit Stylistic Prompting, Language-Aware Truncation, and imbalance-aware training (Focal Loss, GeM pooling, multi-sample dropout, and bucket batching). Our system achieves 0.434 Macro F1 on the official hidden test set, ranking 4th out of 34 teams with only 125M parameters. Controlled 5-fold cross-validation confirms that each component contributes to the final system, and a formatting-normalization study quantifies the model’s reliance on formatting cues.
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2026.semeval-1.364
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Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
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July
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2026
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San Diego, California, USA
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Ekaterina Kochmar, Debanjan Ghosh, Kai North, Mamoru Komachi
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SemEval | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2903–2909
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Longfeng Chen and Zheng Xiao. 2026. SYSUpporter at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Leveraging Stylistic Signals and Language-Aware Truncation for Machine-Generated Code Detection. In Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026), pages 2903–2909, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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SYSUpporter at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Leveraging Stylistic Signals and Language-Aware Truncation for Machine-Generated Code Detection (Chen & Xiao, SemEval 2026)
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