Optimizing watermarks for large language models
Bram Wouters
With the rise of large language models (LLMs) and concerns about potential
misuse, watermarks for generative LLMs have recently attracted much attention.
An important aspect of such watermarks is the trade-off between their
identifiability and their impact on the quality of the generated text. This
paper introduces a systematic approach to this trade-off in terms of a
multi-objective optimization problem. For a large class of robust, efficient
watermarks, the associated Pareto optimal solutions are identified and shown to
outperform the currently default watermark.