arXiv Computation and Language

Who Gets Flagged? The Pluralistic Evaluation Gap in AI Content Watermarking

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 21

Auditing Cross-Lingual Fairness in Language Model Watermarking

arXiv:2608. 20047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Watermarking schemes for large language model output are evaluated almost exclusively on English text using each scheme's detection threshold and a narrow set of quality measurements.

By Alexander Nemecek, Osama Zafar, Debargha Ganguly, Vikash Singh, Vipin Chaudhary, Erman Ayday
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 20

Auditing Cross-Lingual Fairness in Language Model Watermarking

Watermarking schemes for large language model output are evaluated almost exclusively on English text using each scheme's detection threshold and a narrow set of quality measurements. Multilingual deployment exposes evaluation-design choices that are inconsequential on English but determine conclusions cross-lingually.

arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 15

Whose Data, Whose Benchmark? A User-Centric Framework for Auditing Evaluation Resources

The paper introduces a user‑centric audit framework that separates the users who create benchmark content from those whose needs the evaluation results are meant to represent. It operationalizes seven dimensions across benchmark content, metadata, documentation, and scoring procedures, and applies the framework to 16 resources. Findings show that American‑centered conventions dominate many text benchmarks, geographic visibility in image‑text resources correlates strongly with national GDP, and documentation reveals a gap between source‑user and target‑user contexts. Paired scoring experiments demonstrate that meaning‑preserving answer variants can drastically lower accuracy metrics, highlighting the sensitivity of evaluation scores to answer phrasing.

By Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Davood Rafiei
arXiv AI
Sep 11

Watermarks Without Verification: AI Text Watermarking After the EU AI Act

The paper discusses the EU AI Act’s requirement for generative AI providers to embed detectable watermarks in their outputs, noting that Anthropic’s Claude models and Google’s Gemini use SynthID‑Text by default. It critiques the lack of verifiability of claims about watermark quality, privacy, and robustness, and evaluates the open‑source SynthID‑Text implementation on two open‑weight models, finding minimal impact on prose and modest correctness loss on code. The authors argue that the real governance issue is the inability to verify these assertions and outline necessary steps—such as output release, configuration disclosure, accredited audits, shared evaluation protocols, and interoperable detection—to address the gaps.

By Alexander Nemecek, Vipin Chaudhary, Erman Ayday
arXiv AI
Sep 18

A Unified Evaluation Framework for Trustworthy Large Language Models, Agentic AI, and Multimodal Systems

The paper introduces a unified evaluation framework for assessing the trustworthiness of large language models, agentic AI, and multimodal systems. It connects output-level, trajectory-level, and cross-modal assessments across eight dimensions—capability, robustness, safety, fairness, transparency, governance, oversight, and efficiency—while preserving system-specific metrics and providing uncertainty estimates. A meta-evaluation layer checks the validity, reliability, and reproducibility of the evaluation itself, and the framework aligns with governance standards and regulatory requirements.

By Shaina Raza, Ahmed Y. Radwan, Imran Liaquat, Kathryn Hume
arXiv AI
Oct 1

WARP: A Unified Benchmark for Invisible Image Watermarking -- Robustness and Protection Against Attacks

arXiv:2609.40031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digital image watermarking is increasingly critical in media contexts, as emerging regulations and industry practices require marking AI-generated co...

By Khaled Abud, Aleksey Yakushev, Aleksandr Akimenkov, Irina Serzhenko, Kirill Aistov, Egor Kovalev, Dmitry Obydenkov, Sergey Lavrushkin, Anastasia Antsiferova, Dmitriy Vatolin, Yury Markin, Kirill Lukianov
arXiv Computation and Language
1d ago

The State and Fate of Multilingual, Contextual Evaluation in the NLP World

The paper audits 51 recent multilingual evaluation benchmarks covering 242 datasets and 219 languages, focusing on coverage, representativeness, and rigor. It finds that while coverage is broad, many languages appear in only one benchmark and entire regions are underrepresented; low‑resource languages face a task equity gap. Representativeness is compromised by heavy reliance on English translations, and rigor is weakened by benchmark contamination and parallel‑corpus overlap. The authors propose concrete recommendations for building evaluation frameworks that are natively constructed, culturally grounded, contamination‑aware, and community‑aligned.

By Manan Uppadhyay, Himanshu Beniwal, Prashant Kodali, Sunayana Sitaram
arXiv Machine Learning
6d ago

MarkTune: Improving the Quality-Detectability Trade-off in Model-Embedded LLM Watermarking

MarkTune is a model‑embedded watermarking framework that improves the trade‑off between generation quality and detectability. By regularizing toward a high‑quality reference distribution, it decouples quality preservation from proximity to the base model and uses the GaussMark detection statistic as a reward during on‑policy fine‑tuning. Empirical results show that MarkTune enhances the quality‑detectability frontier, maintains downstream task performance, and remains robust against text‑editing and open‑weight attacks across diverse datasets.

By Yizhou Zhao, Zhiwei Steven Wu, Adam Block