arXiv AI By Luisa Scharff, Thibaud Gloaguen, Robin Staab, Martin Vechev

Making Open-Source Text LLM Watermarks Durable Against Merging

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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.

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