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
arXiv:2608. 14906v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Watermarking provides a principled way to authenticate text generated by large language models (LLMs).
By Jose H. Blanchet, T. Tony Cai, Xiang Li, Hao Liu, Qi Long, Weijie J. Su
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
arXiv:2509. 21160v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the growing use of large language models, concerns over content authenticity have spurred a variety of watermarking schemes.
By Soham Bonnerjee, Subhrajyoty Roy, Sayar Karmakar
arXiv:2607. 00224v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Watermarking promises a statistical trace of large language model (LLM) use, but real documents, after editing or paraphrasing, rarely arrive as purely human-written or purely machine-generated.
By Shuwen Chai, Qiaosen Wang
arXiv:2506.22343v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Text watermarks in large language models (LLMs) are an increasingly important tool for detecting synthetic text and distinguishing human-writ...
By Xiang Li, Garrett Wen, Weiqing He, Jiayuan Wu, Qi Long, Weijie J. Su