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New metric "watermarkability" improves language model compatibility with watermarks

Researchers have introduced a new metric called "watermarkability" to assess how well language models are compatible with logit-based watermarking techniques. This metric quantifies the cost associated with a model assigning sufficient probability to a designated token set. To improve this compatibility, a two-stage method is proposed: first, a low-rank adapter is trained to increase the probability mass of the target set, and second, a controller applies a minimal logit bias to meet the target probability. Evaluations on OPT-125M and Qwen3_8B models demonstrated that this approach significantly reduces perplexity increases while maintaining high reliability for watermark adherence. AI

IMPACT Enhances the reliability of identifying AI-generated text and encoding provenance information in language models.

RANK_REASON Academic paper introducing a new metric and method for language model watermarking. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New metric "watermarkability" improves language model compatibility with watermarks

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Zewei Deng, Mohamed Seif, Liyan Xie ·

    Watermarkability: Measuring and Improving Language-Model Compatibility with Logit-Based Watermarks

    arXiv:2610.22810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-model watermarks can help identify model-generated text, encode provenance information, and detect post-generation edits. A broad class of logit-based watermarks increases the logits of a designated token set at each decodi…