2026
Echoes within the Reasoning: Stealth and Effective Watermarking via Chain of Thought
ICML 2026poster
Large Language Models (LLMs) with proprietary Chain-of-Thought (CoT) capabilities constitute high-value intellectual property, yet protecting them against unauthorized theft and unlicensed commercialization remains a critical challenge. Existing watermarking paradigms are ill-suited for safeguarding…