arXiv:2608. 06416v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Watermarking traces the provenance of text produced by large language models by embedding statistically detectable signals during decoding.
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.
arXiv:2602. 09611v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Watermarking has emerged as a pivotal solution for content traceability and intellectual property protection in large vision language models (LVLMs).
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.
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.
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.
The paper investigates watermarking for large language model outputs, noting that stronger single-layer watermarks reduce token entropy and weaken subsequent layers. It demonstrates that detectability is limited by entropy and that watermark ensembles monotonically lower entropy and the green‑list ratio. The authors propose using weaker single‑layer watermarks to maintain entropy, showing through theory and experiments that this approach improves both detectability and robustness compared to strong baselines.
arXiv:2607. 20435v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-source LLMs (OSMs)arereaching near state-of-the-art performance, prompting prior works to trace the text they generate by embedding text watermarking algorithms directly into their weights.
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...
The paper introduces Pattern Stability Score (PSS), a watermark detection framework that uses local statistical features and stability dynamics across paraphrased variants to identify machine-generated text. PSS combines global and local z‑score features with higher‑order run‑length statistics, autocorrelation signals, and stability scores over paraphrase depth. Experiments on PG‑19, CNN/DailyMail, and WikiText with Llama‑3‑8B, Qwen2‑7B, and multiple paraphrasers show that PSS improves detection AUC by 10‑15 percentage points and a single universal classifier achieves over 87.8% AUC across diverse LLMs, paraphrasers, and domains without retraining.
arXiv:2609.37218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic watermarking improves robustness against watermark removal attacks by embedding detectable signals into sentence-level representations. Howe...
arXiv:2609.14257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic text watermarks encode signals in meaning rather than surface token choices, offering robustness to paraphrasing and other semantic-preserving...
arXiv:2606. 18430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Statistical watermarks help organizations attribute large language model (LLM) outputs, yet existing detectors often struggle when watermark signals are weak, texts are repetitive, or watermarks are edited.