arXiv Machine Learning

Watermarking for Proprietary Dataset Protection

arXiv:2607. 00325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A growing body of literature suggests that training data membership inference problems are fundamentally hard tasks in modern language modeling settings.

arXiv Machine Learning
4d ago

Dataset Watermarking with Provable Black-Box Detection

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
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 8

Beyond Heuristic Tuning: Power-Calibrated LLM Watermarking

arXiv:2607. 05694v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Logit-based watermarking is a widely used mechanism for identifying LLM generated content, yet its effectiveness is governed by a fundamental trade-off between detectability and semantic distortion.

By Xiaopu Wang, Zelin He, Chengyuan Liu, Runze Li