Papers by Zitian Gao
WaterSeeker: Pioneering Efficient Detection of Watermarked Segments in Large Documents (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods focus on distinguishing fully watermarked text from non-watermarked text, overlooking real-world scenarios where LLMs generate only brief segments within longer documents. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to detect watermarked segments in large documents using an anomaly extraction method and a local traversal. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves a superior balance between detection accuracy and computational efficiency. |
MarkLLM: An Open-Source Toolkit for LLM Watermarking (2024.emnlp-demo)
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Leyi Pan, Aiwei Liu, Zhiwei He, Zitian Gao, Xuandong Zhao, Yijian Lu, Binglin Zhou, Shuliang Liu, Xuming Hu, Lijie Wen, Irwin King, Philip Yu
| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) embed imperceptible yet algorithmically detectable signals in outputs to identify LLM-generated text. |
| Approach: | They propose to develop an open-source toolkit for LLM watermarking that embeds imperceptible yet algorithmically detectable signals in model outputs to identify LLM-generated text. |
| Outcome: | MarkLLM provides a unified framework for implementing LLM watermarking algorithms, while providing user-friendly interfaces to ensure ease of access. |
Polymorphic Universal Transformer (2026.acl-long)
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Yilong Chen, Zitian Gao, Yihao Xiao, Jason Klein Liu, Xinyu Yang, Yifan Luo, Haoming Luo, Zhengmao Ye, Tingwen Liu, Ran Tao, Bryan Dai
| Challenge: | Compute Distribution Skew is a pathological phenomenon in ultra-deep recurrent models . it causes over-smoothing, representation rank collapse, and degraded reasoning performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a dynamic architecture that redefines recursive computation by decoupling parameter count from depth. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model significantly improves representation rank and reasoning robustness while reducing computation by 64.7%. |