RMCW: A Deletion-Robust Watermark Based on Reed--Muller Codes for Language Models

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2610.02817v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) watermarking provides a lightweight mechanism for identifying text generated by a specific model, but its robustness remains fragile under post-processing attacks. Deletion attacks are particularly challenging because they shift token positions and break the alignment between observed tokens and their original watermark positions. We propose Reed--Muller Code Watermarking (RMCW), an LLM watermarking method based on Reed--Muller codes. In contrast to global codeword recovery, RMCW searches for surviving local algebraic structure, leveraging the Reed--Solomon consistency induced by affine-line restrictions of Reed--Muller codewords. During generation, RMCW injects a Reed--Muller structure into the sequence via a sec