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Contrastive Learning for Authorship Verification

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arXiv:2609.28471 (cs)
[Submitted on 23 Sep 2026]

Title:Contrastive Learning for Authorship Verification

Authors:Peter Kirby
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Abstract:Our results show that contrastive learning outperforms a classification-based approach to authorship verification under the tested settings. We identify loss function, batch size, training duration, pre-trained model, input context length, and random text span data augmentation as important factors of model performance. Based on these considerations, we develop a ModernBERT Bi-Encoder model that achieves 98.4% accuracy on the PAN21 authorship verification task.
Comments: Published in the proceedings of CLEF 2026. Code: this https URL
Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
Cite as: arXiv:2609.28471 [cs.CL]
  (or arXiv:2609.28471v1 [cs.CL] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.28471
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Journal reference: Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction (CLEF 2026), LNCS 17087, pp. 92-102, Springer (2027)
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-39150-6_7
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From: Peter Kirby [view email]
[v1] Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:59:08 UTC (69 KB)
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