arXiv · 2610.09976
EASE: Entropy-Adaptive Distribution Shaping for Evading AI-generated Text Detectors
Abstract
AI-generated text (AIGT) detection can be sensitive to the decoding choices of the source large language model (LLM). We observe that perturbing next-token logits or adjusting sampling temperature can reduce detection performance, providing a clear signal of detector vulnerability to decoding-time distribution changes. Building on this observation, we propose EASE (Entropy-Adaptive Distribution Shaping for Evasion), a training-free and detector-agnostic framework for evading AIGT detectors. EASE computes predictive entropy directly from the source LLM's next-token distribution and uses it to adapt both logit perturbation and sampling temperature, without detector feedback or model fine-tuning. Experiments across three source LLMs and multiple detectors demonstrate consistent reductions in detection performance, with negligible degradation in text quality and negligible inference overhead.
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Jicheng Zhou, Kahim Wong, Jialong Wang, Jiantao Zhou. 2026-10-07. EASE: Entropy-Adaptive Distribution Shaping for Evading AI-generated Text Detectors. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.09976
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