This paper presents models to differentiate between human-written and AI-generated essays, addressing challenges posed by advanced AI models like ChatGPT and Claude. Using a structured dataset, we fine-tune multiple machine learning models, including XGBoost and Logistic Regression, along with ensemble learning and k-fold cross-validation. The dataset is processed through TF-IDF vectorization, followed by text cleaning, lemmatization, stemming, and part-of-speech tagging before training. Our team nits_teja_srikar achieves high accuracy, with DistilBERT performing at 77.3% accuracy, standing at 20th position for English, and XLM-RoBERTa excelling in Arabic at 92.2%, standing at 14th position in the official leaderboard, demonstrating the model’s potential for real-world applications.

This paper presents a Cross-domain Machine-Generated Text Detection model developed for the COLING 2025 Workshop on Detecting AI-generated Content (DAIGenC). As large language models evolve, detecting machine-generated text becomes increasingly challenging, particularly in contexts like misinformation and academic integrity. While current detectors perform well on unseen data, they remain vulnerable to adversarial strategies, including paraphrasing, homoglyphs, misspellings, synonyms, whitespace manipulations, etc. We introduce a framework to address these adversarial tactics designed to bypass detection systems by adversarial training. Our team DistilBERT-NITS detector placed 7th in the Non-Adversarial Attacks category, and Adversarial-submission-3 achieved 17th in the Adversarial Attacks category.