Toward the Use of Neural Architecture Search: A Baseline Approach for Solving the Authorship Verification Problem Academic Article in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • In this paper, we introduce a baseline approach for solving the authorship verification task by incorporating a straightforward Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) method, including a defined neural network search space and an exhaustive search strategy. Our approach aims to automatically identify prominent neural networks that generate well-performing models simulating a general Neural Architecture Search (NAS) process in the authorship identification problem. To this end, we compare our approach against traditional Machine Learning (ML) methods for generating models across different text corpora in English and Spanish documents. Additionally, we demonstrate that a pre-trained model like a Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Transformers (BERT), which captures the context of words in a bidirectional manner, combined with our approach, can be a suitable option for capturing the author¿s writing style. General NAS¿s theoretical and practical implications are also discussed, highlighting the challenges of using this technique across more complex architectures on different corpora and its inherent limitations, resulting in several guidelines for integrating NAS to solve authorship verification. Finally, experimental results show that our proposed pipeline can be applied to a Natural Language Processing (NLP) problem without extensive computational resources, outperforming most common techniques. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025.

publication date

  • August 1, 2025