Linear Ensembles Wash Away Watermarks: On the Fragility of Distributional Perturbations in LLMs

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Autores principales:	Wu, Zhihao, Gong, Gracia, Zhu, Qinglin, Chen, Yudong, Zhao, Runcong
Formato:	Preprint
Publicado:	2026
Materias:	Computation and Language
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