Limits of LLM Text Detectors in Education

arXiv:2508.08096 · cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2025-08-11 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2025-08-11

Updated: 2026-09-11

Comments: Preprint as provided by the authors (17 pages, 12 figures, 9 tables)

Code: https://github.com/lukasgehring/Assessing-LLM-Text-Detection-inEducational-Contexts

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• AUC — 29× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 25× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• F1 Score — 24× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative Models — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generalization — 7× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Lexical Diversity — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adversarial Attacks — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cosine Similarity — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative Essay Detection in Education — 3× in this paper
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Transformer — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalizability — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Intrinsic Dimension — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Persistent Homology — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AAE The Argument Annotated Essay — 1× in this paper
• BAWE The British Academic Written English — 1× in this paper
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Perplexity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transfer Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes

Sources

• DetectRL: Benchmarking LLM-Generated Text Detection in Real-World Scenarios

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