SubmissionNumber#=%=#155 FinalPaperTitle#=%=#SemEval Task 8: A Comparison of Traditional and Neural Models for Detecting Machine Authored Text ShortPaperTitle#=%=# NumberOfPages#=%=#6 CopyrightSigned#=%=#Shrirang Rajendra Mhalgi JobTitle#==# Organization#==#Indiana University, 107 S Indiana Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405 Abstract#==#Since Large Language Models have reached a stage where it is becoming more and more difficult to distinguish between human and machine written text, there is an increasing need for automated systems to distinguish between them. As part of SemEval Task 8, Subtask A: Binary Human-Written vs. Machine-Generated Text Classification, we explore a variety of machine learning classifiers, from traditional statistical methods, such as Naïve Bayes and Decision Trees, to fine-tuned transformer models, such as RoBERTa and ALBERT. Our findings show that using a fine-tuned RoBERTa model with optimized hyperparameters yields the best accuracy. However, the improvement does not translate to the test set because of the differences in distribution in the development and test sets. Author{1}{Firstname}#=%=#Srikar Kashyap Author{1}{Lastname}#=%=#Pulipaka Author{1}{Username}#=%=#spulipa Author{1}{Email}#=%=#spulipa@iu.edu Author{1}{Affiliation}#=%=#Indiana University Bloomington Author{2}{Firstname}#=%=#Shrirang Rajendra Author{2}{Lastname}#=%=#Mhalgi Author{2}{Username}#=%=#srmhalgi Author{2}{Email}#=%=#srmhalgi@iu.edu Author{2}{Affiliation}#=%=#Indiana University Bloomington Author{3}{Firstname}#=%=#Joseph E. Author{3}{Lastname}#=%=#Larson Author{3}{Username}#=%=#jelarson Author{3}{Email}#=%=#joelarso@iu.edu Author{3}{Affiliation}#=%=#Indiana University Author{4}{Firstname}#=%=#Sandra Author{4}{Lastname}#=%=#Kübler Author{4}{Username}#=%=#skuebler Author{4}{Email}#=%=#skuebler@indiana.edu Author{4}{Affiliation}#=%=#Indiana University ========== èéáğö