GenoTrace: Inheritable Watermarks for Genome Foundation Model Distillation

arXiv:2609.35881 · cs.CR, cs.LG, q-bio.GN · Submitted 2026-09-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.LG, q-bio.GN

Submitted: 2026-09-27

Updated: 2026-10-01

Terminology

• Alignment — 18× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Distillation — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 9× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Foundation Model — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Provenance — 6× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Tokenization — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Transformer — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decode — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Models — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 3× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transfer Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Transformer Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network
• Opening the Black Box of Deep Neural Networks via Information
• Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
• Unified attacks to large language model watermarks: spoofing and scrubbing in unauthorized knowledge distillation
• FoldMark: Protecting Protein Generative Models with Watermarking

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