SemTrace: Source-Grounded Semantic Signatures for Tracing LLM Exposure to Protected Documents

arXiv:2608.29575 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-30

Updated: 2026-08-30

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Robustness — 14× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Redundancy — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AUC — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 5× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Decode — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Model-Agnostic — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifiability — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• Robust Distortion-free Watermarks for Language Models
• Adaptive Text Watermark for Large Language Models
• Can AI-Generated Text be Reliably Detected?
• CoheMark: A Novel Sentence-Level Watermark for Enhanced Text Quality

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