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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 96/10

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Log-Likelihood, Simpson's Paradox, and the Detection of Machine-Generated Text

Researchers identify a critical flaw in machine-generated text detection: token-level likelihood signals vary inconsistently across a detector model's hidden space, causing Simpson's paradox that undermines existing detectors. They propose a learned local calibration method that dramatically improves detection performance, with calibrated variants achieving AUROC improvements from 0.63 to 0.85 on GPT-5.4 text.

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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Apr 106/10

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On the Step Length Confounding in LLM Reasoning Data Selection

Researchers identify a critical flaw in naturalness-based data selection methods for large language model reasoning datasets, where algorithms systematically favor longer reasoning steps rather than higher-quality reasoning. The study proposes two corrective methods (ASLEC-DROP and ASLEC-CASL) that successfully mitigate this 'step length confounding' bias across multiple LLM benchmarks.