Overview

Style Representations trained with the approach described in "Unsupervised Style Representation Learning for AI-Text Detection via Paraphrase Inversion". These representations are trained in an unsupervised manner, that is, without the use of any authorship labels. We've found the representations to be performant for machine-text detection in particular, although they show some transfer to the tasks of authorship verification (see below).

We expect to release more performant versions of LUSR in the future. We'll link all such versions here.

Update 08/06/2026 - LUSR achieves the top score on the STEB-Operational benchmark and the third-highest score on the STEB-Definitional benchmark. STEB is a comprehensive benchmark for style embeddings, spanning 96 datasets across 7 languages. See the STEB leaderboard and codebase.

Few-Shot Machine-text Detection

The following table shows machine-text detection performance on the M4 dataset using the same setup as: Few-Shot Detection of Machine-Generated Text using Style Representations .

Authorship Verification

AUROC is averaged across PAN13/14/15/20/21 authorship verification tasks. The comparison includes supervised and unsupervised style representations, with LUSR evaluated without any training on authorship labels.