Summary of K-semstamp: a Clustering-based Semantic Watermark For Detection Of Machine-generated Text, by Abe Bohan Hou et al.
k-SemStamp: A Clustering-Based Semantic Watermark for Detection of Machine-Generated Text
by Abe Bohan Hou, Jingyu Zhang, Yichen Wang, Daniel Khashabi, Tianxing He
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Computers and Society (cs.CY); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Medium Difficulty Summary: The paper proposes an improvement to existing watermarking algorithms used in language generation, which inject detectable signatures into generated text. SemStamp, a previous algorithm, demonstrates promising robustness against paraphrase attacks by applying watermarks on semantic representations of sentences. However, it achieves this robustness at the cost of speed and efficiency. k-SemStamp is an enhanced version that utilizes k-means clustering instead of locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) to partition the embedding space, preserving semantic structure. Experimental results show that k-SemStamp improves robustness, sampling efficiency, and generation quality while surpassing SemStamp in these aspects. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Low Difficulty Summary: Researchers are working on ways to detect if AI-generated text is real or fake. A new algorithm called k-SemStamp tries to make it harder for others to remove the digital “fingerprint” that shows the text was generated by a machine. The old method, SemStamp, worked well but took too long and was not very efficient. k-SemStamp solves this problem by using a different way to divide up the text’s meaning into groups, which makes it harder for others to remove the fingerprint while keeping the quality of the generated text high. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Clustering * Embedding space * K means
