arXiv Machine Learning

Optimal Estimation of Watermark Proportions in Hybrid AI-Human Texts

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 30

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 AI
Jul 24

Detecting LLM-Generated Tokens in Human--LLM Coauthored Text

arXiv:2607. 21458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rise of human-AI collaborative writing has created a growing need for fine-grained detection methods that support localizing likely LLM-generated content in mixed-authorship documents.

By Yangjun Lu, Hongyi Zhou, Fabian Spill, Kai Ye, Chengchun Shi, Jin Zhu
arXiv AI
Sep 18

Watermarking Diffusion Language Models

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