Team Unibuc - NLP at SemEval-2024 Task 8: Transformer and Hybrid Deep Learning Based Models for Machine-Generated Text Detection

Teodor-george Marchitan, Claudiu Creanga, Liviu P. Dinu


Abstract
This paper describes the approach of the UniBuc - NLP team in tackling the SemEval 2024 Task 8: Multigenerator, Multidomain, and Multilingual Black-Box Machine-Generated Text Detection. We explored transformer-based and hybrid deep learning architectures. For subtask B, our transformer-based model achieved a strong second-place out of 77 teams with an accuracy of 86.95%, demonstrating the architecture’s suitability for this task. However, our models showed overfitting in subtask A which could potentially be fixed with less fine-tunning and increasing maximum sequence length. For subtask C (token-level classification), our hybrid model overfit during training, hindering its ability to detect transitions between human and machine-generated text.
Anthology ID:
2024.semeval-1.63
Volume:
Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)
Month:
June
Year:
2024
Address:
Mexico City, Mexico
Editors:
Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Giovanni Da San Martino, Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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403–411
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.semeval-1.63
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.semeval-1.63
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Teodor-george Marchitan, Claudiu Creanga, and Liviu P. Dinu. 2024. Team Unibuc - NLP at SemEval-2024 Task 8: Transformer and Hybrid Deep Learning Based Models for Machine-Generated Text Detection. In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024), pages 403–411, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Team Unibuc - NLP at SemEval-2024 Task 8: Transformer and Hybrid Deep Learning Based Models for Machine-Generated Text Detection (Marchitan et al., SemEval 2024)
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