Beyond Sub-Gaussian Detector Scores: Robust Weighted Profile-Loss Change Point Detection for

Across five retrospective cached-score benchmark families, core RWCP reduces family-macro WindowDiff by 17.6\% relative to weighted change-point detection, and RWCP-R lowers it further. It comes from a paper posted to arXiv on 30 September 2026. Mixed human-LLM documents require locating authorship transitions from detector scores whose reliability varies across text units. Existing weighted mean contrasts are vulnerable to extreme scores, while directly replacing means with robust centers obscures how a misplaced boundary changes the population objective. We propose Robust Weighted Profile-Loss Change Point Detection (RWCP), which combines capped reliability weights, Huber profile gains, and narrowest-over-threshold search in reliability coordinates. Our key analysis expresses the population gap between a true and a displaced split as a merge cost, avoiding a closed-form solution for the nonlinear center of a mixed segment. Under explicit curvature, spacing, and dependence conditions, core RWCP recovers the number of changes and localizes their boundaries; its quadratic-loss limit recovers squared weighted CUSUM. We also study RWCP-R, a separately evaluated decoder that shares source centers across nonadjacent passages. Boundary recovery improves most clearly for isolated changes, while both fixed configurations miss changes in collaborative and densely alternating text.

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Across five retrospective cached-score benchmark families, core RWCP reduces family-macro WindowDiff by 17.6\% relative to weighted change-point detection, and RWCP-R lowers it further. We propose Robust Weighted Profile-Loss Change Point Detection (RWCP), which combines capped reliability weights, Huber profile gains, and narrowest-over-threshold search in reliability coordinates. Boundary recovery improves most clearly for isolated changes, while both fixed configurations miss changes in collaborative and densely alternating text.

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