Invisible Entropy: Towards Safe and Efficient Low-Entropy LLM Watermarking (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to watermark low-entropy content are expensive and risky . IE reduces parameter size by 99% while achieving performance on par with state-of-the-art methods . |
| Approach: | They propose a logit-based watermarking paradigm that uses entropy-based features to predict whether the next token is high or low. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method reduces parameter size by 99% while achieving performance on par with state-of-the-art methods. |
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