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Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have blurred the boundary of high-quality text generation between humans and machines, which is favorable for generative text steganography. While, current advanced steganographic mapping is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Jiaxuan Wu , Zhengxian Wu , Yiming Xue , Juan Wen , Wanli Peng

Diffusion model-based generative image steganography (DM-GIS) is an emerging paradigm that leverages the generative power of diffusion models to conceal secret messages without requiring pre-existing cover images. In this paper, we identify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jiahao Zhu , Zixuan Chen , Jiali Liu , Weiqi Luo , Yi Zhou , Xiaohua Xie

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for modern generative modeling, demonstrating strong potential for large language models (LLMs). Unlike conventional autoregressive (AR) models that generate tokens sequentially,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Gen Li , Changxiao Cai

The rapid proliferation of frontier model agents promises significant societal advances but also raises concerns about systemic risks arising from unsafe interactions. Collusion to the disadvantage of others has been identified as a central…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yohan Mathew , Ollie Matthews , Robert McCarthy , Joan Velja , Christian Schroeder de Witt , Dylan Cope , Nandi Schoots

To detect stego (steganographic text) in complex scenarios, linguistic steganalysis (LS) with various motivations has been proposed and achieved excellent performance. However, with the development of generative steganography, some stegos…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Yifan Tang , Yihao Wang , Ru Zhang , Jianyi Liu

Discrete diffusion language models (dLLMs) provide a fast and flexible alternative to autoregressive models (ARMs) via iterative denoising with parallel updates. However, their evaluation is challenging: existing metrics conflate denoiser…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Luhan Tang , Longxuan Yu , Shaorong Zhang , Greg Ver Steeg

With data privacy becoming more of a necessity than a luxury in today's digital world, research on more robust models of privacy preservation and information security is on the rise. In this paper, we take a look at Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Geetanjali Bihani , Julia Taylor Rayz

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) are rapidly emerging as a powerful and promising alternative to the dominant autoregressive (AR) paradigm. By generating tokens in parallel through an iterative denoising process, DLMs possess inherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Tianyi Li , Mingda Chen , Bowei Guo , Zhiqiang Shen

Diffusion language models (DLMs) promise parallel, order-agnostic generation, but on standard benchmarks they have historically lagged behind autoregressive models in sample quality and diversity. Recent continuous flow and diffusion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Georgios Batzolis , Mark Girolami , Luca Ambrogioni

Diffusion language models (DLMs) are an attractive alternative to autoregressive models because they promise sublinear-time, parallel generation, yet practical gains remain elusive as high-quality samples still demand hundreds of refinement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Hasan Amin , Yuan Gao , Yaser Souri , Subhojit Som , Ming Yin , Rajiv Khanna , Xia Song

Generative image steganography is a technique that conceals secret messages within generated images, without relying on pre-existing cover images. Recently, a number of diffusion model-based generative image steganography (DM-GIS) methods…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jihao Zhu , Zixuan Chen , Jiali Liu , Lingxiao Yang , Yi Zhou , Weiqi Luo , Xiaohua Xie

Whereas traditional cryptography encrypts a secret message into an unintelligible form, steganography conceals that communication is taking place by encoding a secret message into a cover signal. Language is a particularly pragmatic cover…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Zachary M. Ziegler , Yuntian Deng , Alexander M. Rush

While LLM-based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) achieves high accuracy, its speed is limited by sequential autoregressive decoding. Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) offer a parallel alternative, yet their decoding strategies remain…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Jeong Hun Yeo , Minsu Kim , Hyeongseop Rha , Yong Man Ro

Recent research in provably secure neural linguistic steganography has overlooked a crucial aspect: the sender must detokenize stegotexts to avoid raising suspicion from the eavesdropper. The segmentation ambiguity problem, which arises…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yuang Qi , Kejiang Chen , Kai Zeng , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on a broad range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, including document processing and code generation. Autoregressive Language Models (ARMs), which generate…

Understanding and addressing potential safety alignment risks in large language models (LLMs) is critical for ensuring their safe and trustworthy deployment. In this paper, we highlight an insidious safety threat: a compromised LLM can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Guangnian Wan , Xinyin Ma , Gongfan Fang , Xinchao Wang

In the ever-expanding digital landscape, safeguarding sensitive information remains paramount. This paper delves deep into digital protection, specifically focusing on steganography. While prior research predominantly fixated on individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Quang Nguyen , Truong Vu , Cuong Pham , Anh Tran , Khoi Nguyen

With the rapid development of Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies, text steganography methods have been significantly innovated recently, which poses a great threat to cybersecurity. In this paper, we propose a novel attentional…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-02-21 YongJian Bao , Hao Yang , Zhongliang Yang , Sheng Liu , Yongfeng Huang

With the rapid development of natural language processing technologies, more and more text steganographic methods based on automatic text generation technology have appeared in recent years. These models use the powerful self-learning and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Zhongliang Yang , Ke Wang , Jian Li , Yongfeng Huang , Yu-Jin Zhang

With the popularity of the large language models (LLMs), text steganography has achieved remarkable performance. However, existing methods still have some issues: (1) For the white-box paradigm, this steganography behavior is prone to…

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