The detection gain comes from restoring the missing prompt-response relation, not merely assigning an assistant role: the full prefix outperforms the empty prompt by 14.73% and 12.57% AUROC on Qwen2.5-3B and 5.63% and 5.33% on Llama-3.1-8B¶

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q2 i? The full generic prefix consistently outperforms an empty prompt, and the context clause framing the passage as content generated in response to a user's request provides the strongest individual component contribution. → Hongrui Bao 2026

Evidence¶

Hongrui Bao 2026¶

Hongrui Bao, Yubing Ren, Jinhan You, Fang Fang, Shi Wang, Yanan Cao. (2026). ONCE A RESPONSE, ALWAYS A RESPONSE: DETECTING LLM-GENERATED TEXT VIA LATENT PROMPT RESTORATION. arXiv preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05741 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.05741

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Prompt-component ablation (Figure 3) under Qwen2.5-3B and Llama-3.1-8B on DetectRL Multi-Domain and Multi-LLM. Context clause A improves AUROC by 12.63%, 9.28%, 3.84%, and 3.41% across the four settings; leave-one-out results lead to the same conclusion.

"The component-level results further show that the gain does not simply come from assigning an assistant identity to the proxy model. The role sentence alone brings only limited gains, especially on Llama-3.1-8B, where the improvements are about 1.60% and 1.44%."

Discussion¶

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