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arXiv cs.CLPaper10d ago

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

This matters for anyone shipping LLM products over protected content. Watermarking moves from surface patterns to semantic content, which is harder to detect and strip. The mechanism is clever: encode facts as binary pairs, ask the model to express them in fixed slots, then decode what it wrote. For builders: this is what a real provenance chain looks like. For legal teams: this is the kind of tool that gets taken seriously in court.

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arXiv cs.CLPaper17d ago

Layered LLM Defenses as an Ensemble: Access Tiers, Inference Cost, and the Measured Failure Correlation Between Defense Layers

This is the kind of unglamorous but critical work that prevents you from shipping false confidence in your safety stack. Most teams assume that adding a second defense halves attack success; this paper shows it often doesn't. If you're building security into an LLM product, read this and rethink your defense architecture.

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