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Sentence Transitions Became the Detection Signal

A graph-based detector looks for deviations between adjacent sentences instead of treating style features independently.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-30-008
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Summary

A graph-based detector looks for deviations between adjacent sentences instead of treating style features independently.

The paper calls the signal relational over-regularization: recurring similarity bursts and transition patterns create sentence-pair variance that differs from human text in the tested data. Its CSFG implementation reports 97.14 percent binary accuracy, a 1.57 percent false-positive rate and an 11.14-point gain over the strongest graph baseline. The authors also show the boundary: performance falls when a generator's transition variance reaches or drops below the human baseline.

Why it matters

A graph-based detector looks for deviations between adjacent sentences instead of treating style features independently.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. A graph-based detector looks for deviations between adjacent sentences instead of treating style features independently.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-30-008

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.26694arXiv · primary research

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