arXiv AI September 18, 2026 By Thibaud Gloaguen, Robin Staab, Nikola Jovanovi\'c, Martin Vechev

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.

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