arxivcs.LGcs.CL2026-07-01
Watermarking for Proprietary Dataset Protection
John Kirchenbauer, Brian R. Bartoldson, Bhavya Kailkhura, Tom Goldstein
A growing body of literature suggests that training data membership inference problems are fundamentally hard tasks in modern language modeling settings. We argue that output watermarking techniques are the right gadget to make training membership tests for generative models more…