Enhancing Watermarking Quality for LLMs via Contextual Generation States Awareness
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| author | Yang, Peiru Li, Xintian Ni, Wanchun Yin, Jinhua Wang, Huili Nan, Guoshun Wang, Shangguang Huang, Yongfeng Qi, Tao |
| author_facet | Yang, Peiru Li, Xintian Ni, Wanchun Yin, Jinhua Wang, Huili Nan, Guoshun Wang, Shangguang Huang, Yongfeng Qi, Tao |
| contents | Recent advancements in watermarking techniques have enabled the embedding of secret messages into AI-generated text (AIGT), serving as an important mechanism for AIGT detection. Existing methods typically interfere with the generation processes of large language models (LLMs) to embed signals within the generated text. However, these methods often rely on heuristic rules, which can result in suboptimal token selection and a subsequent decline in the quality of the generated content. In this paper, we introduce a plug-and-play contextual generation states-aware watermarking framework (CAW) that dynamically adjusts the embedding process. It can be seamlessly integrated with various existing watermarking methods to enhance generation quality. First, CAW incorporates a watermarking capacity evaluator, which can assess the impact of embedding messages at different token positions by analyzing the contextual generation states. Furthermore, we introduce a multi-branch pre-generation mechanism to avoid the latency caused by the proposed watermarking strategy. Building on this, CAW can dynamically adjust the watermarking process based on the evaluated watermark capacity of each token, thereby minimizing potential degradation in content quality. Extensive experiments conducted on datasets across multiple domains have verified the effectiveness of our method, demonstrating superior performance compared to various baselines in terms of both detection rate and generation quality. |
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| spellingShingle | Enhancing Watermarking Quality for LLMs via Contextual Generation States Awareness Yang, Peiru Li, Xintian Ni, Wanchun Yin, Jinhua Wang, Huili Nan, Guoshun Wang, Shangguang Huang, Yongfeng Qi, Tao Cryptography and Security Recent advancements in watermarking techniques have enabled the embedding of secret messages into AI-generated text (AIGT), serving as an important mechanism for AIGT detection. Existing methods typically interfere with the generation processes of large language models (LLMs) to embed signals within the generated text. However, these methods often rely on heuristic rules, which can result in suboptimal token selection and a subsequent decline in the quality of the generated content. In this paper, we introduce a plug-and-play contextual generation states-aware watermarking framework (CAW) that dynamically adjusts the embedding process. It can be seamlessly integrated with various existing watermarking methods to enhance generation quality. First, CAW incorporates a watermarking capacity evaluator, which can assess the impact of embedding messages at different token positions by analyzing the contextual generation states. Furthermore, we introduce a multi-branch pre-generation mechanism to avoid the latency caused by the proposed watermarking strategy. Building on this, CAW can dynamically adjust the watermarking process based on the evaluated watermark capacity of each token, thereby minimizing potential degradation in content quality. Extensive experiments conducted on datasets across multiple domains have verified the effectiveness of our method, demonstrating superior performance compared to various baselines in terms of both detection rate and generation quality. |
| title | Enhancing Watermarking Quality for LLMs via Contextual Generation States Awareness |
| topic | Cryptography and Security |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07403 |