Mitchell Plyler


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2025

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SENTRA: Selected-Next-Token Transformer for LLM Text Detection
Mitchell Plyler | Yilun Zhang | Alexander Tuzhilin | Saoud Khalifah | Sen Tian
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025

LLMs are becoming increasingly capable and widespread. Consequently, the potential and reality of their misuse is also growing. In this work, we address the problem of detecting LLM-generated text that is not explicitly declared as such. We present a novel, general-purpose, and supervised LLM text detector, SElected-Next-Token tRAnsformer (SENTRA). SENTRA is a Transformer-based encoder leveraging selected-next-token-probability sequences and utilizing contrastive pre-training on large amounts of unlabeled data. Our experiments on three popular public datasets across 24 domains of text demonstrate SENTRA is a general-purpose classifier that significantly outperforms popular baselines in the out-of-domain setting.