Distortion-free multi-bit watermark adds certified decoding to language model outputs

CertMark embeds messages via Gumbel-max sampling seeds, preserving text quality while providing mathematical bounds on false recovery.

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Paweł Batorski · Przemysław Spurek · Paul Swoboda

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · Jagiellonian University · IDEAS Research Institute

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The authors introduce CertMark, a watermarking method for LLMs that embeds multi-bit messages without altering token probabilities.

Batorski et al.

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From Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and 2 others · Released code

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CertMark is a distortion-free multi-bit watermark that provides certified decoding with mathematical bounds on incorrect message probability.

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