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17 papers

stat.ME2026

Optimal Watermark Localization in Mixed-Source Large Language Model Texts

Jose H. Blanchet, T. Tony Cai, Xiang Li +3

Watermarking provides a principled way to authenticate text generated by large language models (LLMs). In practice, however, the final text may be mixed-source, with watermark evid…

cs.LG2026

CurveRL: Principled Distribution-Aware Context Reweighting for LLM Reasoning

Ke Sun, Yizhou Zhao, Jiayi Xin +2

Context or prompt-level reweighting has emerged as a central algorithmic lever in Reinforcement Learning with Verified Rewards (RLVR) for improving the reasoning capability of larg…

cs.CR2026

Robust Spectral Watermark for Synthetic Tabular Data

Yizhou Zhao, Xiang Li, Peter Song +2

The rise of generative AI has enabled the production of high-fidelity synthetic tabular data across fields such as healthcare, finance, and public policy, raising growing concerns…

cs.GT2026

Statistical Impossibility and Possibility of Aligning LLMs with Human Preferences: From Condorcet Paradox to Nash Equilibrium

Kaizhao Liu, Qi Long, Zhekun Shi +2

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with diverse human preferences is critical for ensuring fairness and informed outcomes when deploying these models for decision-making. In thi…

cs.LG2026

Improving the Trade-off Between Watermark Strength and Speculative Sampling Efficiency for Language Models

Weiqing He, Xiang Li, Li Shen +2

Watermarking is a principled approach for tracing the provenance of large language model (LLM) outputs, but its deployment in practice is hindered by inference inefficiency. Specul…

cs.LG2026

On the Empirical Power of Goodness-of-Fit Tests in Watermark Detection

Weiqing He, Xiang Li, Tianqi Shang +3

Large language models (LLMs) raise concerns about content authenticity and integrity because they can generate human-like text at scale. Text watermarks, which embed detectable sta…