Pairwise token watermarking improves AI text detection without altering output

TTMark extends distortion-free watermarking from single tokens to token pairs, boosting detectability especially in low-entropy settings.

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Ruibo Chen · Zhengmian Hu · Donghang Lu · Xuehao Cui · Georgios Milis · Yihan Wu · +2 more

University of Maryland, College Park · TikTok

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The authors propose Tandem Token WaterMark (TTMark), a distortion-free watermarking framework that operates on adjacent token pairs rather than individual tokens.

The authors introduce TTMark, which reweights the joint probability of consecutive tokens during LLM decoding to embed a watermark.

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Pairwise distortion-free watermarking of adjacent token pairs improves detection in low-entropy regimes while preserving output distributions.

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