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CoCoNUTS: Concentrating on Content while Neglecting Uninformative Textual Styles for AI-Generated Peer Review Detection
This paper introduces CoCoNUTS, a new benchmark and detector (CoCoDet) for identifying AI-generated content in peer reviews, focusing on content rather than stylistic cues. It achieves state-of-the-art performance and reveals a rising trend of AI involvement in real-world reviews, beyond just language polishing.
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Content-Centric Detection
The core insight is a shift from style-based to content-based detection. Traditional detectors fail when AI-generated text is paraphrased (semantic-invariant operation) or when minor AI polishing is used. CoCoNUTS addresses this by focusing on content composition, categorizing reviews into Human, Mix, and AI based on the substantive origin.
CoCoDet's Robust Architecture
CoCoDet employs a multi-task learning framework to disentangle content features from stylistic cues. It includes a primary content composition identification task and three auxiliary tasks: Collaboration Mode Attribution, Content Source Attribution, and Textual Style Attribution. This allows for robust detection, even with humanized AI content.
Rising AI Usage in Peer Review
Applying CoCoDet to recent conference reviews reveals an accelerating trend of AI adoption. Beyond permissible language enhancement, there's a concerning rise in fully machine-generated reviews. This highlights the urgent need for robust, content-based detection methods to maintain academic integrity.
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CoCoDet Macro F1-score on ternary detection task
Enterprise Process Flow
Data Acquisition (OpenReview)
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Paper & Review Conversion
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Six Human-AI Collaboration Modes (HW, HWMT, HWMP, HWMG, MG, MGMP)
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Ternary Classification (Human, Mix, AI)
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CoCoDet (Content-Concentrated Detector)
| Detector | Human F1-score | Mix F1-score | AI F1-score | Average F1-score |
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| CoCoDet (Full Model) | 98.94% | 97.41% | 98.37% | 98.23% |
| Gemini-2.5-flash-0520 (Few-shot) | 74.05% | 39.90% | 62.97% | 58.97% |
| LLMDet | 98.82% | 98.45% | 99.26% | 50.22% |
| FastDetectGPT | 53.09% | 92.98% | 92.56% | 69.74% |
| CoCoDet significantly outperforms both LLM-based and general detectors, especially in handling mixed content and maintaining low false positive rates on human text. | ||||
The Challenge of LLM-based Detectors
LLM-based detectors, even with few-shot prompting, struggle to focus on substantive content. Their reasoning often defaults to analyzing textual style (e.g., polished transitions, formulaic phrasing) rather than true content-based source attribution. This leads to unreliable predictions, unjustly flagging legitimate AI assistance, and failing to catch deceptively humanized AI-generated reviews.
For instance, an analysis of Qwen3 and DeepSeek reasoning shows they equate successful imitation of expert writing style with genuine human authorship, failing to question the provenance of well-formed arguments.
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Phase 2: Custom Model Training & Integration (4-6 Weeks)
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