Challenge: Existing methods for detecting large language models (LLMs) generate fluent text, but they only use a few tokens due to the short length or insufficient information in some texts.
Approach: They propose a method that leverages external text corpora to evaluate the difference in logit distribution of input text under retrieved human-written and LLM-rewritten contexts.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance in AUROC on five public datasets with three widely-used source LLMs.

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