# LLM-DetectAIve: a Tool for Fine-Grained Machine-Generated Text Detection

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04284 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.04284/

## Key facts

- Cited by 25 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 13 of its 21 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 8 Aug 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 13 of 13)

- [RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.11692/) (2019)
- [DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.01108/) (2019)
- [Domain-Adversarial Training of Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1505.07818/) (2015)
- [DeBERTa: Decoding-enhanced BERT with Disentangled Attention](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.03654/) (2020)
- [DetectGPT: Zero-Shot Machine-Generated Text Detection using Probability Curvature](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.11305/) (2023)
- [The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Texts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.07205/) (2023)
- [M4: Multi-generator, Multi-domain, and Multi-lingual Black-Box Machine-Generated Text Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.14902/) (2023)
- [ChatGPT: The End of Online Exam Integrity?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.09292/) (2022)
- [OUTFOX: LLM-Generated Essay Detection Through In-Context Learning with Adversarially Generated Examples](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.11729/) (2023)
- [LLM-as-a-Coauthor: Can Mixed Human-Written and Machine-Generated Text Be Detected?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.05952/) (2024)
- [M4GT-Bench: Evaluation Benchmark for Black-Box Machine-Generated Text Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.11175/) (2024)
- [SemEval-2024 Task 8: Multidomain, Multimodel and Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.14183/) (2024)
- [Authorship Obfuscation in Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.07867/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 25 of 25)

- [Beemo: Benchmark of Expert-edited Machine-generated Outputs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.04032/) (2024)
- [EditLens: Quantifying the Extent of AI Editing in Text](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.03154/) (2025)
- [GenAI Content Detection Task 1: English and Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection: AI vs. Human](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.11012/) (2025)
- [Survey on AI-Generated Media Detection: From Non-MLLM to MLLM](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.05240/) (2025)
- [DETree: DEtecting Human-AI Collaborative Texts via Tree-Structured Hierarchical Representation Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.17489/) (2025)
- [CoDet-M4: Detecting Machine-Generated Code in Multi-Lingual, Multi-Generator and Multi-Domain Settings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.13733/) (2025)
- [On the Generalization and Adaptation Ability of Machine-Generated Text Detectors in Academic Writing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.17242/) (2024)
- [Stress-testing Machine Generated Text Detection: Shifting Language Models Writing Style to Fool Detectors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.24523/) (2025)
- [DetectAnyLLM: Towards Generalizable and Robust Detection of Machine-Generated Text Across Domains and Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.14268/) (2025)
- [Frankentext: Stitching random text fragments into long-form narratives](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.18128/) (2025)
- [Large Language Models Penetration in Scholarly Writing and Peer Review](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.11193/) (2025)
- [Decoupling Content and Expression: Two-Dimensional Detection of AI-Generated Text](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.00258/) (2025)
- [Real, Fake, or Manipulated? Detecting Machine-Influenced Text](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.15350/) (2025)
- [FDLLM: A Dedicated Detector for Black-Box LLMs Fingerprinting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.16029/) (2025)
- [Beyond Easy Wins: A Text Hardness-Aware Benchmark for LLM-generated Text Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.15286/) (2025)
- [How Sampling Affects the Detectability of Machine-written texts: A Comprehensive Study](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.13681/) (2025)
- [MOSAIC: Multiple Observers Spotting AI Content](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.07615/) (2024)
- [Robust and Fine-Grained Detection of AI Generated Texts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.11952/) (2025)
- [On the Detectability of LLM-Generated Text: What Exactly Is LLM-Generated Text?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.20810/) (2025)
- [A Comprehensive Dataset for Human vs. AI Generated Text Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.22874/) (2025)
- [Domain Gating Ensemble Networks for AI-Generated Text Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.13855/) (2025)
- [AINL-Eval 2025 Shared Task: Detection of AI-Generated Scientific Abstracts in Russian](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.09622/) (2025)
- [Build it, Break it, Repeat: Benchmarking and improving LLM-manipulated disinformation detection in social media posts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.09510/) (2026)
- [Detecting GPT-Assisted Writing Using Interpretable Stylometric Features](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.26687/) (2026)
- [How Much Were You Told? Measuring External Information in Peer Reviews](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.28041/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The ease of access to large language models (LLMs) has enabled a widespread of machine-generated texts, and now it is often hard to tell whether a piece of text was human-written or machine-generated. This raises concerns about potential misuse, particularly within educational and academic domains. Thus, it is important to develop practical systems that can automate the process. Here, we present one such system, LLM-DetectAIve, designed for fine-grained detection. Unlike most previous work on machine-generated text detection, which focused on binary classification, LLM-DetectAIve supports four categories: (i) human-written, (ii) machine-generated, (iii) machine-written, then machine-humanized, and (iv) human-written, then machine-polished. Category (iii) aims to detect attempts to obfuscate the fact that a text was machine-generated, while category (iv) looks for cases where the LLM was used to polish a human-written text, which is typically acceptable in academic writing, but not in education. Our experiments show that LLM-DetectAIve can effectively identify the above four categories, which makes it a potentially useful tool in education, academia, and other domains. LLM-DetectAIve is publicly accessible at https://github.com/mbzuai-nlp/LLM-DetectAIve. The video describing our system is available at https://youtu.be/E8eT_bE7k8c.