arXiv:2508.03829v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The growing deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) has raised concerns about their misuse in generating harmful or deceptive content. To addres...
By Jiahao Xu, Rui Hu, Olivera Kotevska, Zikai Zhang
arXiv:2608.27899v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: With the growing prevalence of large language model (LLM) generated content, watermarking is considered a promising approach for attributing text to...
By Miroojin Bakshi, Saksham Rastogi, Danish Pruthi
arXiv:2610.27653v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Watermarking has emerged as a key tool for identifying text generated by large language models (LLMs), with current schemes embedding statistical sig...
By Romina Omidi, Nima Naderloui, Yuan Hong, Binghui Wang
The paper introduces the first watermark designed specifically for diffusion language models (DLMs), which generate tokens in arbitrary order unlike traditional autoregressive models. It overcomes the challenge of missing prior tokens by applying the watermark in expectation over the context and promoting tokens that strengthen the watermark when used as context. Experiments show a >99% true positive rate with minimal quality loss and comparable robustness to existing autoregressive watermarks.
By Thibaud Gloaguen, Robin Staab, Nikola Jovanovi\'c, Martin Vechev
The paper introduces a dataset watermarking technique that embeds a watermark by increasing the co‑occurrence of randomly selected word pairs through meaning‑preserving local edits. The watermark can be detected solely from generated text with provable false‑positive control, and experiments on four base models and three datasets show reliable detection (p < 0.01) even when the watermarked data constitutes less than 5% of fine‑tuning tokens. Compared to existing methods, the approach better preserves benchmark utility and semantic integrity.
By Pengrun Huang, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Yu-Xiang Wang
TTMark introduces a pairwise watermarking framework that extends distortion‑free watermarking from single tokens to adjacent token pairs, enlarging the watermarking alphabet from V to V². By watermarking the joint distribution of consecutive tokens, the detector can exploit both token entropy and conditional entropy while maintaining distortion‑freeness. Experiments on multiple language models and datasets show that TTMARK improves detectability, robustness to edits, and localized watermark detection without degrading generation quality.
By Ruibo Chen, Zhengmian Hu, Donghang Lu, Xuehao Cui, Georgios Milis, Yihan Wu, Jian Du, Heng Huang
arXiv:2609.38722v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: LLM watermarking has become an effective approach to distinguishing AI-generated text from human-written text by embedding detectable patterns during...
By Zewei Deng, Muhammad Siddeek, Liyan Xie, Mohamed Seif, Mengdi Wang, H. Vincent Poor, Andrea Goldsmith
CORE-BREW is a new multi‑bit watermarking method for large language models that uses log‑likelihood ratios for soft‑decision decoding, targeting a fixed hit rate to calibrate the watermark channel. It introduces entropy‑aware erasures to reduce perturbations in low‑entropy contexts and combines likelihood‑based scoring with soft‑decision list decoding to better exploit token‑level reliability. Experiments on open‑source LLMs show that CORE‑BREW improves detection robustness and payload recovery compared to the BREW baseline while keeping false‑positive rates low and maintaining translation quality metrics close to unwatermarked text.
By Joeun Kim, HoEun Kim, Young-Sik Kim
arXiv:2601. 11629v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We demonstrate that while the current approaches for language model watermarking are effective for open-ended generation, they are inadequate at watermarking LM outputs for constrained generation tasks with low-entropy output spaces.
By Nghia T. Le, Alan Ritter, Kartik Goyal
WeaveMark is a new multi‑bit watermarking scheme for large language models that improves payload capacity, extraction accuracy, and text quality by using coded payload spreading, soft‑decision error‑correcting codes, and unbiased multilayer reweighting. It also adds zero‑bit layers for reliable detection of watermark presence. Experiments demonstrate significant gains, achieving an 89.8% match rate for 32‑bit messages at 200 tokens and maintaining 86.0% accuracy under 10% substitution attacks on 16‑bit messages, far outperforming the BiMark baseline.
By Gang-Hyun Park, Ju-Hyeong Lee, Hee-Youl Kwak, Dae-Young Yun
arXiv:2607. 13099v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success but raise growing concerns about content provenance and misuse, motivating the need for reliable watermarking techniques.
By Z Sun, Q Jiang, S Sheng, L Xiang
The paper introduces Dual-Embedding Watermarking (DEW), a semantic watermarking technique for large language models that combines contextual and token-level embeddings. DEW applies algebraic vector-space operations to generate a watermark signal that remains robust to paraphrasing and translation, while obfuscating the signal with pseudo-random matrices seeded by a secret key. Experiments demonstrate state‑of‑the‑art robustness, especially against translation, with minimal computational overhead and preserved text quality at lower watermark strengths.
By Jonas Sch\"afer, Cezary Pilaszewicz, Gerhard Wunder