arXiv:2607.13099cs.CRcs.AI2026-07

WaterMoE通过专家路由嵌入水印,实现高保真与低延迟的LLM内容溯源。

WaterMoE: Expert-Routing-based Watermarking for High Fidelity and Efficiency

  • 在MoE模型的路由器中控制扰动以嵌入水印信号
  • 水印保真度接近无水印模型,速度比当前方法快4倍
  • 适合对延迟敏感的真实场景部署

大型语言模型(LLMs)虽取得显著成功,但内容来源与滥用问题日益突出,亟需可靠的水印技术。然而,现有方法因严重降低模型性能和增加推理开销,极少被实际采用。为此,我们构建了一个覆盖多种生成任务的综合基准,系统评估了9种代表性水印方法。结果发现,大多数方法仅针对文本流畅性设计,不适用于复杂受限任务,且开销阻碍其在低延迟系统中的部署。为解决上述问题,我们提出面向流行MoE架构的水印方案WaterMoE:通过在每个路由器的专家选择环节引入可控扰动,使水印信号累积至最终输出的词元选择中。与传统后处理采样水印不同,WaterMoE在推理过程中嵌入水印,几乎不损失生成质量,计算开销极低。大量实验表明,该方法在基准上保真度接近无水印模型,持续优于当前最优水印方法,最高实现4倍加速,额外推理延迟仅增加1%。结果证明WaterMoE具备在真实任务中部署的能力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success but raise growing concerns about content provenance and misuse, motivating the need for reliable watermarking techniques. However, these techniques have rarely been adopted in practice mainly for two reasons: i) severely degraded model performance, and ii) additional inference overhead. To confirm the problem, we construct a comprehensive benchmark spanning different generation tasks to systematically evaluate 9 representative watermarking methods. We found almost all existing methods are designed for text fluency, but not for restricted and complicated tasks, and their overhead prevents them from deployment in latency-critical systems. To address i) and ii), we propose an LLM watermarking scheme \textit{WaterMoE} for the growingly popular Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) LLMs. WaterMoE embeds watermarking signals through controlled perturbation into the expert selection at each router, which accumulates to token selection shift at the final output. In contrast to watermarking as a post-processing token-sampling approach, WaterMoE embeds watermark within the inference loop incurring negligible quality degradation and computational overhead. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves a fidelity performance close to the unwatermarked and consistently outperforms state-of-the-art watermarking methods on the benchmark, with up to $4\times$ speedup, incurring merely 1\% additional inference latency compared to native generation. The results demonstrate the capability of WaterMoE to be deployed in real-world tasks.

水印技术MoE模型高效推理

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