A Watermark for Large Language Models

Kirchenbauer et al., 2023, A Watermark for Large Language Models (Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023), PMLR 202)

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7.1 Degradation Under Attack: Span Replacement

  1. How effective was the T5 span-replacement attack?
    Replacing random spans with T5-Large suggestions, without knowing the green lists, barely helped at a 10% budget (AUC dropped by 0.01); at 30% it degraded the watermark substantially, but tripled perplexity and needed many model calls.

Source

  • John Kirchenbauer, Jonas Geiping, Yuxin Wen, Jonathan Katz, Ian Miers and Tom Goldstein. 2023. A Watermark for Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023), PMLR 202, pp. 17061–17084. https://proceedings.mlr.press/v202/kirchenbauer23a.html