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PRoADS: Provably Secure and Robust Audio Diffusion Steganography with latent optimization and backward Euler Inversion

Cryptography and Security 2026-03-12 v1 Multimedia Sound

Abstract

This paper proposes PRoADS, a provably secure and robust audio steganographic framework based on audio diffusion models. As a generative steganography scheme, PRoADS embeds secret messages into the initial noise of diffusion models via orthogonal matrix projection. To address the reconstruction errors in diffusion inversion that cause high bit error rates (BER), we introduce Latent Optimization and Backward Euler Inversion to minimize the latent reconstruction and diffusion inversion errors. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that our scheme sustains a remarkably low BER of 0.15\% under 64 kbps MP3 compression, significantly outperforming existing methods and exhibiting strong robustness.

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@article{arxiv.2603.10314,
  title  = {PRoADS: Provably Secure and Robust Audio Diffusion Steganography with latent optimization and backward Euler Inversion},
  author = {YongPeng Yan and Yanan Li and Qiyang Xiao and Yanzhen Ren},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.10314},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

This paper has been accepted for presentation at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2026)

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