面向 IP 保护的稳健 LLM 水印,最小化语义扰动
摘要
专有型大语言模型(LLM)面临知识产权( IP) 侵犯风险,敌人可以通过收集输入输出对来复制 LLM,从而导致财务损失。水印作为一种验证所有权的 promising defense, existing methods often struggle with semantic distortion, factual inconsistency, and adversarial attacks. In addition, key-conditioned watermarks for provider-specific detection, especially in cross-provider and multi-user scenarios, remain largely underexplored. To address these challenges, we propose SAFESEAL, a novel key-conditioned watermarking framework that achieves strong detectability with minimal impact on model utility, effectively balancing detectability, utility, and robustness. SAFESEAL preserves named entities while substituting linguistic terms with context-aware synonyms through a key-conditioned Tournament sampling mechanism, maintaining semantic fidelity and factual consistency. For detection, we introduce a key-conditioned contrastive detector that jointly encodes the text and key, enabling provider-specific and robust watermark verification. We derive theoretical bounds on the utility-detectability trade-off and significantly reduce latency through lightweight models, batching, and parallelism. Extensive experiments show that SAFESEAL outperforms baselines in utility, detectability, and robustness, achieving a BERTScore of 0.983, entity similarity of 0.963, a 98.2% detection rate, and the highest human ratings for text quality and content preservation, with latency comparable to the fastest baseline. To promote transparency and community-driven progress, we release the first public watermark leaderboard and an interactive demo.
引用
@article{arxiv.2605.23175,
title = {Robust LLM Watermarking with Minimal Semantic Distortion for IP Protection},
author = {Kieu Dang and Phung Lai and NhatHai Phan and Yelong Shen and Ruoming Jin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.23175},
year = {2026}
}