Growing amount and quality of AI-generated texts makes detecting such content more difficult. In most real-world scenarios, the domain (style and topic) of generated data and the generator model are not known in advance. In this work, we focus on the robustness of classifier-based detectors of AI-generated text, namely their ability to transfer to unseen generators or semantic domains. We investigate the geometry of the embedding space of Transformer-based text encoders and show that clearing out harmful linear subspaces helps to train a robust classifier, ignoring domain-specific spurious features. We investigate several subspace decomposition and feature selection strategies and achieve significant improvements over state of the art methods in cross-domain and cross-generator transfer. Our best approaches for head-wise and coordinate-based subspace removal increase the mean out-of-distribution (OOD) classification score by up to 9% and 14% in particular setups for RoBERTa and BERT embeddings respectively. We release our code and data: https://github.com/SilverSolver/RobustATD
@article{arxiv.2410.08113,
title = {Robust AI-Generated Text Detection by Restricted Embeddings},
author = {Kristian Kuznetsov and Eduard Tulchinskii and Laida Kushnareva and German Magai and Serguei Barannikov and Sergey Nikolenko and Irina Piontkovskaya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.08113},
year = {2025}
}