Verifiable LLM-Generated Text Detection via Projected Semantic-Structural Distributions
Ruochong Xiong, Qien Li, Wangwang Lian, Yulong Wan, Hanlin Xue, Zhouxing Tan, Han Yang, Fengyu Lu, Junfei Liu
Abstract
The widespread deployment of large language models (LLMs) makes detecting LLM-Generated text a critical security task. Existing methods, primarily relying on output probabilities from proxy models or single semantic features, suffer from distribution misalignment and limited interpretability. We observe that machine-generated text exhibits a directionally consistent systematic translation relative to human-written text within the joint semanticstructural space. Accordingly, we propose ProSSD, a statistical framework utilizing supervised subspace learning to extract compact features and construct conditional semantic distributions based on syntactic structures. By employing a likelihood ratio test, we derive a modified Mahalanobis distance, weighted by the Wasserstein distance, as the discriminative metric. Experiments demonstrate ProSSD's superior robustness and computational efficiency across cross-domain, cross-model, and adversarial scenarios. Furthermore, we reveal the phenomena of systematic semantic translation and semantic collapse in machine-generated text, offering interpretable statistical insights into LLM generation behaviors. 1
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