Challenge: Existing methods to detect MGT from human-written texts are inadequate . existing methods are fine-tuned and zero-shot metric-based, but they can be more accurate.
Approach: They propose a novel fine-tuned detector that can detect MGT from human-written texts by contrastive learning on selective perturbation.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art by 1.20% on four public datasets.

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