Anchored Sliding Window: Toward Robust and Imperceptible Linguistic Steganography (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | linguistic steganography assumes that stegographic texts are fragile to even minor modifications, compromising text quality. |
| Approach: | They propose an anchored sliding window framework to improve imperceptibility and robustness . they propose to include the prompt and a bridge context within the context window . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms the baseline method in text quality, imperceptibility and robustness across diverse settings. |
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